MPPC and CENAL open call for 2025 Literature Biennials
MPPC Press
Published at: 20/02/2025 03:25 PM
The Ministry of Popular Power for Culture (MPPC) and
the National Book Center (CENAL) opened the
call for Venezuelan and foreign writers
residing in the country to the seven National Biennials of Literature 2025.
These contests will award unpublished works
in the Short Novel, Children's Narrative, Essay, Chronicle, Poetry and Tenth Children's categories.
These are the VII Rafael Zárraga National Biennial of
Literature, short novel mention, open until June 24;
the II Carmen Delia Bencomo National Children's and Youth Literature Biennial, children's narrative
mention, until July 15; the 9th Félix Armando Núñez National
Literature Biennial, essay mention, until July 31; the VII Antonio Crespo Meléndez National Literature Biennial, mention Chronicle, and the
XI Ramón Palomares National Literature
Biennial, Poetry mention, until
August 15; the VII Gustavo Pereira National Literature Biennial, Poetry mention, until September 15, and the VIII Cruz Salmerón Acosta Biennial, tenth children's mention,
until September 30.
These National Literature Biennials
are held as part of the Bolivarian Government's cultural policies
aimed at promoting literary production and encouraging the development of new authors.
The winners will be published by Monte
Ávila, a publisher attached to the MPPC, and will receive one hundred and fifty
thousand bolivars (Bs 150,000.00) by CENAL.
The complete rules for each biennial, with participation
requirements and other specifications, are available on the CENAL
website www.cenal.gob.ve at the following links:
7th Rafael Zárraga National Literature Biennial
II National Biennial of Children's and Young People's Literature Carmen Delia Bencomo
9th National Biennial of Literature Félix Armando Núñez
7th National Biennial of Literature Antonio Crespo Meléndez
XI Ramón Palomares National Literature Biennial
7th Gustavo Pereira National Literature Biennial
VIII Cruz Salmerón Acosta Biennial
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