ELISABETTA LA CAVA

NEW LETTERS Literary Awards Winner

Winner of the Conger Beasley Jr. Award for Nonfiction 
The winning piece "Not Your Cinema Paradiso" is an excerpt from Mother City, a coming-of-age immigrant novel that obsesses over the cruelties of exile. Girlhood, love, belonging, not belonging—what we leave behind when we go onto the rest of our lives.
A young woman is trying to decipher where she’s come from and where she's headed while her family cinema business in Venezuela is quickly deteriorating. Set in the late 70s and early 80s, we are thrown into a world crossing national borders and see how completely our lives can change, and how quickly.https://www.newletters.org/awards-2024/
I am currently seeking agent representation.

UCROSS Foundation
Spring 2026 Fellow in Literature   www.ucrossfoundation.org

​PERIPLUS Collective
Class of 2026 Fellowlithub.com/announcing-the-2026-class-of-periplus-fellows/​lithub.com

Sewanee Writers' Conference
​2025 Tennessee Williams Scholarship Recipient https://sewaneewriters.org/participants/

Hispanic Culture Review
2nd Place in 2022 Poetry Competition                      gmu/docs

Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts 
2021 Finalist Barry Lopez Nonfiction Contest www.cutthroatmag.com/contest_finalists.html

Waltham Forest Poetry Competition 
2021 Shortlisted .wordpress.com/2021
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