First NER Emerging Writer Scholar Signs Book Deal

February 22, 2018

Ricardo Nuila, the 2015 and first New England Review Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Scholar, recently signed a deal with Scribner’s for the acquisition of his non-fiction book The Poor Unfortunates.

A deep dive into a hospital in Houston called Ben Taub that caters to the indigent and undocumented . . . Nuila, who is a doctor and a journalist, explores . . . how American justice and medical systems often fail the poor, sick, and underserved in our country, how Ben Taub has managed to overcome the odds and provide excellent care for all its patients, and how facilities across the country might hope to do the same. —Publishers Weekly

Nuila is an assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine, where he is a hospitalist and teaches internal medicine and medical humanities. His fiction, essays, and reporting have appeared in Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, Virginia Quarterly Review, the Atlantic, New England Review, The New England Journal of Medicine, and other publications. His story “At the Bedside” appeared in NER 35.1.

The NER Award for Emerging Writers provides a full scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference for an emerging writer in any genre. This annual award, which is bestowed upon a writer who offers an unusual and compelling new voice and who has been published by NER, is selected by the NER editorial staff and the BLWC director.

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Ricardo Nuila Reads at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

June 1, 2016

Ricardo Nuila gave a stirring reading of his work at the 2015 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He is the 2015 recipient of the first annual New England Review Award for Emerging Writers, and he attended the conference as the first New England Review Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Scholar. His short fiction appeared in NER‘s Vol. 35.1.

Dr. Ricardo Nuila is an assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine, where he is a hospitalist and teaches internal medicine and medical humanities. His fiction, essays, and reporting have appeared in Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, Virginia Quarterly Review, the Atlantic, New England Review, The New England Journal of Medicine, and other publications.

NER Emerging Writer Award Winner—Dr. Ricardo Nuila Takes the TEDx Stage

August 10, 2015

We’ve learned that The New England Review/Bread Loaf Scholarship recipient for 2015, emerging writer Dr. Ricardo Nuila, has spent a little time on the TEDx stage, telling his stories out loud.

“My first thought was, wait, someone else must be a doctor . . . how might I explain myself to the flight attendant? ‘Excuse me kind m’am,’ I’d say, ‘I literally became a doctor yesterday. What this means is, I don’t know what I’m doing . . . if you want to know the truth, I’m done with medicine. I’m off to become a writer.’”

Listen to Ricardo Nuila tell his TEDx story here, from the stage at Rice University

Dr. Ricardo Nuila is an assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine, where he works as a hospitalist at Ben Taub General Hospital and teaches internal medicine and classes on the intersection of medicine and the humanities to both residents and medical students. His essays have been published in numerous prestigious medical journals including The New England Journal of Medicine. Additionally, Dr. Nuila is an accomplished fiction writer who has been published in New England Review, McSweeney’s, Ninth Letter, and Indiana Review, among others.

Winner of the inaugural NER Award for Emerging Writers, Dr. Nuila will attend the 2015 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference this summer on the first annual NER/Bread Loaf scholarship.

NER Releases Short List for Emerging Writers Award

February 5, 2015

New England Review announces, with enormous pleasure, the finalists for the first New England Review Emerging Writers Award.

Please join us in congratulating our six finalists for 2015:

Leslie Bazzett  (34.3-4)
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo  (35.2)
William Fargason  (35.1)
Ricardo Nuila  (35.1)
Larry I. Palmer  (35.1)
Sean Warren  (35.2)

The winner, to be announced later this month, will receive a scholarship to the 2015 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Congratulations to them all—we are proud to have published such strong work from emerging writers in all three genres.