Borderless Voices: Stories from the 2025 DREAMing Out Loud Anthology, Vol.7

Fri Oct 24 2025 at 03:00 pm to 04:00 pm UTC-04:00

Gerald W Lynch Theater | New York

Mexican Studies Institute at CUNY
Publisher/HostMexican Studies Institute at CUNY
Borderless Voices: Stories from the 2025 DREAMing Out Loud Anthology, Vol.7
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Borderless Voices: Stories from the 2025 DREAMing Out Loud Anthology, Vol. 7
About this Event

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This special collaboration between the Mexican Studies Institute at CUNY and PEN America’s DREAMing Out Loud program highlights the transformative power of storytelling for migrant communities. Founded in 2016, DREAMing Out Loud is a paid, tuition-free creative writing workshop series designed for undocumented and immigrant writers in the United States, offering them a platform to hone their craft, build confidence, and bring their stories into the public conversation.

At FILNYC, writer and teaching artist Charlie Vázquez, who serves as one of the program’s instructors, will be joined by a group of student authors to present excerpts of their original work. Together, they will reflect on the challenges and discoveries that come with writing from the margins, and on how the program has helped them find their voices, sharpen their skills, and create bonds of solidarity through literature.

This session will delve into the role of storytelling as both an artistic practice and a form of community building —a way of shaping identity, challenging stereotypes, and ensuring that underrepresented narratives claim their rightful space in contemporary literature.

The event will conclude with an open Q&A, offering the audience the opportunity to connect directly with these emerging writers and to engage in a dialogue about the role of creativity, resilience, and imagination in the face of displacement and exclusion.

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Voces sin fronteras: Historias de la antología 2025 DREAMing out Loud, Vol.7

Esta colaboración especial entre el Instituto de Estudios Mexicanos en CUNY y DREAMing Out Loud, iniciativa de PEN America, afirma el poder transformador de la escritura en las comunidades migrantes. Fundada en 2016, DREAMing Out Loud es un taller de escritura creativa, gratuito y remunerado, diseñado para escritores inmigrantes indocumentados en los Estados Unidos, que ofrece una plataforma perfeccionar sus habilidades, desarrollar confianza y traer sus historias a la discusión pública.

En la FILNYC, el escritor, artista y profesor Charlie Vázquez, quien es uno de los instructores del programa, y un grupo de autores estudiantes presentarán fragmentos de trabajos originales. Juntos, refleccionarán sobre los desafíos y los descubrimientos que vienen con escribir desde los márgenes, y cómo el programa los ha ayudado a encontrar sus voces, acentuar sus talentos y crear lazos de solidaridad através de la literatura.

Esta sesión profundizará en el rol de la narración como una práctica artística, pero también como una forma de construir comunidad —una manera de moldear la identidad, de desafiar los estereotipos, y de garantizar que las voces irrepresentadas puedan reclamar su espacio en la literatura contemporánea.

El evento concluirá con una sección de preguntas abiertas al público, ofreciendo a la audiencia la posibilidad de conectar directamente con escritores emergentes y de participar en el diálogo sobre el rol de la creatividad, resiliencia e imaginación, frente al desplazamiento y la exclusión.

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Gerald W Lynch Theater, 524 West 59th Street, New York, United States

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