Manuel Ramos

"This is good storytelling." - The Washington Post

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      Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery, edited by Sarah Cortez and Liz Martinez, foreword by Ralph E. Rodriguez, Ph.D, (Arte Público Press, 2009, features The Skull of Pancho Villa, a new story that takes on the urban myth (?) of the grave-robbing theft of Pancho Villa's skull and its eventual resting place. In the publicity flyer for this short story anthology, the editors say that "someone has stolen the family heirloom and it's up to Gus Corral to get it back." Gus Corral is one of my favorite characters - let me know what you think of this story. Other writers in this much-anticipated and long overdue book include Lucha Corpi, Rolando Hinojosa, A.E. Roman, Steven Torres, Carolina García-Aguilera, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Mario Acevedo, Sandra Ramos O'Briant, and Sergio Troncoso.

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Here's some good news: my short stories Fence Busters and The 405 Is Locked Down were two of the three finalists for the Top Hand Award from the Colorado Authors' League in the category of Adult Short Fiction. The 405 Is Locked Down won the Top Hand!

 

Fence Busters - a story for A Dozen On Denver, the Rocky Mountain News' celebration of Colorado fiction and Denver's 150th birthday. It's 1958 and Shiner just wants to make a few pennies for lunch, but the day has much more in store for the boy. The News' website includes an interview with Manuel and a reading of the story. Click here to go to Fence Busters. Read it quick - now that the RMN has folded, the website content may soon disappear.

The 405 Is Locked Down - a writer visits the City of Angels, looking for the big break promised by the fantasy land of Hollywood, only to find that he has intruded into the personal crisis of two people trapped in that fantasy, with no easy way out. Read it in Latinos in Lotusland.

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The Chicano/Latino Literary Prize anthology, which covers the first twenty-five years of the award, finally has been published by Arte Público Press. Chapter One of The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz is included - Rocky won the prize in 1991.

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