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Short Story Podcast now on Apple Podcasts and Fictionz!
Chola Salvation short story "No Such thing" is now a podcast on Apple Podcasts and the Fictionz.co platforms. Listen to the first episode for free by clicking on the link below.
Plenty of Emotion Packed Into Estella Gonzalez's "Chola Salvation"
The Albuquerque Journal
Reviewer David Steinberg interviews me about the titular story of my short story collection for his column.
Chola Salvation Listed in Top 11 Books for 2021
The Millions
Acclaimed writer Carribean Fragoza includes Chola Salvation in "A Year in Reading: Carribean Fragoza" for online literary magazine, The Millions.
Reader's Digest
List of best Latinx books for 2021 including Chola Salvation.
Boston and Chicago Libraries List Chola Salvation on Latinx Heritage Lists
Journal of Storytelling
Chola Salvation picked for Latinx Heritage Month books by Boston and Chicago Libraries. Click on photo for Boston list.
Tucson Portrait Series on Race Features Poem by Estella González
National News
Gonzalez's poem "Writers Workshop" included in "Voices of Race," a portrait series dedicated to amplifying the voices of our BIPOC communities and being a call of action for all people, particularly white communities to be social change agents.
Union-Bulletin
Walla Walla Public Library selects Chola Salvation as its adult fiction book of the week for Hispanic Heritage Month.
Los Angeles LIterature
An announcement of Chola Salvation's publication and a brief summary of the collection by Los Angeles Literature blogger Brian Dunlap.
2021 Selected List of Adult Fiction by Latinx Authors
Writer Zach Powers interviews Esella González about Chola Salvation and the art of fiction.
Chola Salvation one of 21 books listed by prominent Latina organization Las Comadres on its 7th annual summer reading list.
Latinas Y Cafe
Latino broadcaster Armando F. Sanchez interviews Estella González for his YouTube series on Latina role models.
Press release announcing the publication of Chola Salvation. It also includes background information on the author and a summary of the collection.
Latinx in Publishing lists books by Latinx authors releasing in April.
Anticipated Latinx books for the spring as compiled by Boricua Reads