UMD Alum Wins Fiction Chapbook Competition

UMD alum & Creative Writing minor Paula Acosta won the OutWriteDC Fiction Chapbook Competition.

UMD alumni and Creative Writing minor Paula Acosta, whose chapbook, When We're Done Here: Stories at the Edge of the World, won the OutWriteDC Fiction Chapbook Competition. A chapbook is a short collection of poetry based on a specific theme. 

The book will be available in August 2020.
 

A review from UMD English Professor Maud Casey, author of The Man Who Walked Away

"As in all great speculative fiction, the worlds Molina Acosta creates are recognizably our own. In landscapes ravaged by climate disaster—fires, floods, refugee camps, tyranny, violent intolerances—where the moon may be our last, best hope, Molina Acosta’s characters believe in the capaciousness of love, its fierce resilience, and its capacity to create a home even when we’re done here. These are urgent, beautiful stories heralding the arrival of an urgent, beautiful writer.”