FILVEN 2025 opened registrations for training and professionalization activities

Published at: 30/06/2025 09:48 AM

The Venezuelan International Book Fair (FILVEN) opened registrations to participate in training and professionalization activities related to books and writing that will be held at the country's greatest literary festival, to be held from July 3 to 13 at the National Art Gallery (GAN) and the Youth Square in Caracas, under the motto Reading humanizes.

Among the training activities for the entire public will be the workshops “Creative Writing in a Story”, which will be facilitated by Edwin Antonio García (Honduras), on July 4 and 5; “Rivers of Venezuela in the Verbal Regions”, by Antonio Trujillo, on July 4; “ Dystopian Microfiction”, with Daniel Arella, on July 7; “Reading Mediation”, with Leonardo Cadiz, on July 8; “Narration: The Ghostwriter, a Role Play for Writing in a Group”, with Sol Linares, from 9 to 11 July; and “Bolivar and the poetic speech”, which will be provided by Roger Herrera, on July 11.

In addition, from July 10 to 12, the seminar “The Women of the River” will be held, where the 50th anniversary of the works It's Not Time for Red Roses, by Antonieta Madrid; The Long Day Now Sure, by Antonia Palacios, and The Book of Offices, by Ana Enriqueta Terán, by Laura Gamboa and with the participation as speakers of the writers Laura Antillano, Beatriz Escalante (Mexico), Maribel Prieto, Lisbelay Bermúdez, Carolina Álvarez, Ana María Romero and Beatriz Aifil.

In addition to the Professional Salon from July 4 to 8, with professionalization activities aimed at booksellers, designers, publishers, printers, librarians, graphic students and technicians.

The workshops “Layout and Binding” will be held, by Juan José Abreu, on July 5; “Correction of literary style”, by Héctor González, on July 6; “Techniques for literary translation”, with Cósimo Mandrillo, on July 7; “Magazines and their structures”, by Ximena Benítez, on July 7; “Illustration”, which will be provided by Guadalupe Vivas, on July 8.

These include the discussions “The territorialization of library services”, with the coordinator of the Network of Public Libraries of Honduras, Edwin Antonio García, and the general director of the National Library of Venezuela, Jorge Berrueta, on July 4; “The processes of the book”, by Marcelo Mingiano, by the publisher Siglo XXI (Argentina), and Mikel Buldain Sánchez, by the publisher Txalaparta (Spain), on July 5, and “Copyright in Venezuela”, by the Autonomous Property Service Intellectual (SAPI), to be held on July 8.

In addition, as part of the Professional Salon program, a space for editorial links will open on the 4th and 5th, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:45 p.m., to generate opportunities for alliance and agreements between the different actors in the publishing industry, both national and international.

Below we share the links for registration:

21th FILVEN training activities

21th FILVEN Professional Conference

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