ALOUD featuring Annell López

ALOUD is THRILLED to welcome Annell López to be our first feature of 2025! Please bring something to share at the open mic (3ish minutes per slot).

Annell López is the winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize and the author of the short story collection I’LL GIVE YOU A REASON (Feminist Press), named a best short story collection of 2024 by Electric Literature. A Peter Taylor Fellow at the Kenyon Review Workshops, her work has also received support from Tin House and has appeared in Guernica, American Short Fiction, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Common, Brooklyn Rail, Refinery29 and elsewhere. López received her MFA from the University of New Orleans where she was awarded the Joanna Leake Fiction Prize. She is working on a novel.