MEXICONA, the first Mexican virtual convention of speculative fiction, presented the Premio Imaginación y Futuro (Imagination and Future Award) “to celebrate, recognize and uplift speculative works created by people of Mexican origin” and to “strengthen and build a more diverse and vibrant SFF community in Mexico and Latin America.”
The winners were announced September 24, 2021:
“Imago” by Raquel Hoyos won the Short Story Collection Prize.
The other award is an honor list of diverse works published in 2020, “selected by a jury based on the submissions made by the SFF Mexican community.”
This year’s jurors were Alejandra Amatto, Teresa P. Mira de Echeverría and Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil. The honorees are:
El ataque de los zombis (Parte mil quinientos) / The attack of the zombies (Part fifteen hundred),, Raquel Castro [collection]
“La máquina húngara” / The Hungarian Machine, Karen Chacek [short story]
“La literatura distópica me hace sentir bien” / Dystopian literature makes me feel good, Daniela L. Guzmán [creative non-fiction]
“Prometeo con carita feliz ツ / Prometheus with a happy face ツ, Daniela L. Guzmán [short story]
“Tsintatak”, Ateri Miyawatl [short story]
“Biografía de las algas” / Biography of algae, Martha Riva Palacio Obón [short story]
“El último verso” / The last verse, Krsna Sánchez [short story]
Lengua Noche / Language Night, Rafael Villegas [dream book]
Broken English [digital artifacts]
Especulativas MX / Speculatives MX [reading/creative writing collective]
Espejo humeante / Smoking mirror
Primero sueño / First dream [literary journal]
Testigos / Witness podcast
2050: el fin que no fue / 2050: the end that was not
