Behind the Stars, More Stars
The Tagus/Disquiet Collection of Luso-American Writing
A new anthology of Luso-American literature featuring the story “Borders” by Hugo dos Santos.
Presenting experimental and boundary-breaking prose from women, people of color, and LGBTQ writers, Behind the Stars, More Stars imagines a more diverse and inclusive Luso-American and Portuguese-American literary scene, which has traditionally been dominated by male voices. Since its first “Writing the Luso Experience” workshops were held in 2011, Dzanc Books’s Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon has aimed to break silences within today’s Luso-American communities. Disquiet faculty Katherine Vaz and Frank X. Gaspar appear alongside up-and-coming writers from the workshops, such as Traci Brimhall, Megan Fernandes, Hugo Dos Santos, and previously unpublished women writers.
“This book is a love letter to the place where I grew up, and the account of my heartbreak at moving beyond it. The book was written long before I left the Ironbound, and in hindsight I wonder if, even back then, I was trying to justify to myself the decision I had already made.”
"Night," fiction at Hobart
"Wisdom," fiction at The Common, Dispatches
"Avô," fiction at Barrelhouse (in PDF)
"Running," fiction from Brick City in the 2017 Write Well Award Anthology, pp. 212-221
"Passage," fiction in Lunch Ticket, Winter/Spring 2017 (in PDF)
"Running," fiction from Brick City in upstreet magazine, issue 12, pp. 37-47 (in PDF) - Winner, Write Well Award
"#14," fiction from ironbound at theEEEL by tNY.Press (in PDF)
"Borders," fiction at Hinchas de Poesia (in PDF)
"Outside in," fiction at Queen Mob's Tea House (in PDF)
"Story: A life in three moments," fiction in Brittle Star, issue 37, pp. 53-54 (in PDF)