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Uprising / Alzamiento
"Lisbeth Coiman is a dazzling new voice. With tender rage, she excavates what it means to love and grieve a homeland." Ariel Gore, author of Hexing the Patriarchy: 26 Potions, Spells, and Magical Elixirs to Embolden the Resistance and F*ck Happiness.…
Los terneros
Taxidermist painters shipwrecked in a hostile society, blind men who know the urban labyrinths, naked motorcyclists riding through city avenues, foreigners learning a language through confession, dying pilots finding rest in the writings of…
Los escapistas
"In Los escapistas by Fedosy Santaella, readers will find themselves astonished, frightened, enraged, amused, and ultimately drawn back into the intricate map of escapes, stumbles, and chance encounters that define every existence. Each story in this…
La mañana imaginada: Antología poética (2021-1978)
Poetry anthology of María Auxiliadora Álvarez, edited by Juan Carlos Abril.
Los verdaderos paraísos
"A young man arrives in a remote Brazilian town following the trail of a little-known episode in the life of writer Albert Camus. In that small village, he becomes part of the daily routines of a boarding house run by an elderly Japanese woman, who…
Les poissons de Caracas
In Caracas, a dismembered body is discovered in the Guaire River. Inspector Enrique Dávila is assigned to the case. But time is running out, as the army threatens to transfer the file to the secret services.
Meanwhile, the officer’s neighbor is…
La edad del búfalo
"How many times can the temperature of a story change? As many times as Javier Guedez wants. His tales of the sweltering Caribbean are told with the rhythm of a street party—with its scents, its flavors, and its mysteries—that, all of a sudden, leave…
En mi boca se abrirá la noche
"The author began writing this poetry collection ten years ago, following the murder of two women (mother and daughter) in Caracas. The news coverage focused more on sensationalism than on denouncing violence, as photos of the two women’s burned…
Expiatorio
"The narrative voices in Expiatorio are skillfully developed to guide the reader through geographic spaces significant to the author's own biography (Valencia, Bogotá, Valle del Cauca). However, many of these journeys also allow the reader to assign…
Ojiva / Warhead
"... Dear reader, I confide in you: this warhead isn't just a path strewn with obstacles, but rather a heartfelt farewell—a tribute to cherished memories, to names penned on paper and held close to the heart. It's not a sturdy breakwater; it's more…
Luces altas, luces de peligro
"Gladys Mendía has tossed into the air the coin she has been minting for fifteen years. This time, the imprint of El cantar de los manglares lands face down, revealing a poetry that is clearer—just as the title, Luces altas luces de peligro (High…
La desesperanza
"If we had to summarize in a few words what Santiago Acosta presents to us through his verses, we would have to say that we are faced with a formidable tour de force: the paradox of writing about our desperate present without restraints or…
¡No, tú no!
"Tired of her mother's orders and of watching life pass by from behind the window, Roberta decides to embark on an adventure. As she ventures into the forest, she encounters a pair of monsters who, in order to let her play with them, challenge her…
Santiago se va
"Santiago Iribarren is a filmmaker/scientist who one day decides to tell his life story. To do so, he asks his best friend to help him record an autobiographical documentary. On the scheduled day, his friend arrives at the filming location, but…
Restitución de la lengua
"What remains beneath the tongue after a conversation? What endures beyond writing that dutifully adheres to grammar, morality, and the aesthetic traditions that shape the poem? It is that negative residue, that newfound force of what refuses to be…
La rara: una comedia con alma
"Lucía turns eighteen surrounded by her lifelong friends and three close figures: her official boyfriend, her true love, and a secret lover. But it is only when she blows out her eighteen candles that she first discovers La Rara.
Little by little,…
Little by little,…
Study of the Raft
"In Study of the Raft, Leonora Simonovis's poems weave the outer world of a failed political revolution in her native country, Venezuela, with an inner journey into the memories of migration and exile, of a home long gone, and of family relations,…
Algo habla con mi voz
Winner of the Universidad Central Novel Contest in 2019
*"How does a Venezuelan migrant survive in Bogotá while besieged by depression and the voice of madness, trapped in a fractured marriage, with a child who dries her tears, and whose only source…
Cosmonauta
"Every cosmonaut is, at heart, a castaway. It is enough to imagine that vast expanse we cowardly call outer space—a vastness that resists both our gaze and our imagination. And in the middle of it, place a human body, covered by a second skin as…
Figuras
Synopsis
"A single path connects the town to the asylum, but it is no ordinary road. The route consists of numbered squares, and to cross it, one must follow the order and obey the rules. 'Do not step out of your squares.' 'Running is strictly…