Love This? Read That!: Meriwether Prize edition

Feminist Press is currently accepting submissions for the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize, which awards publication to a debut work of fiction or narrative nonfiction by a woman or nonbinary author of color. To celebrate the beginning of the 2022 cycle, we’re recommending previous Meriwether Prize-winning titles based on the FP books you already love.

From Cassandra Lane’s heartfelt memoir We Are Bridges to the groundbreaking novel that started it all, Louise Meriwether’s Daddy Was a Number Runner, there’s something for everyone. Happy reading!

If you enjoyed Bridgett M. Davis’s novel about estranged sisters and transcontinental identity, you’ll certainly appreciate Cassandra Lane’s poignant reconstruction of her family’s lost history.

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Claudia D. Hernández’s genre-bending exploration of identity and adolescence as a Guatemalan immigrant is perfect for readers of Cristina Rivera Garza’s hybrid collection of works examining systemic violence in Mexico.

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Both Ana Castillo and Melissa Valentine’s memoirs criticize the prison industrial system for how it systemically tears families of color apart and call for restorative justice.

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If you enjoyed Duanwad Pimwana’s thirteen tales about working-class Thailand, definitely add YZ Chin’s interlinked stories about postcolonial Malaysia to your reading list!

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Louise Meriwether’s novel about a young Harlemite navigating the economic upheaval of the 1930s complements Dorothy West’s novel about black excellence and womanhood in the 1940s.