The publishing house of the Hermanos Saíz Association in Holguín, Ediciones La Luz, announced this Friday the opening of the poster exhibition “My name is Celestino”, which will coincide with the beginning of the XXV Celestino Short Story Prize, on June 10.
Those interested in competing must create an illustration or design based on a character or passage from the novel “Celestino antes del alba” (Celestino before dawn), by renowned Holguin-born storyteller Reynaldo Arenas.
The organizers specify that the works must be submitted in JPG format, 50×70, vertical, at 300 dpi, through the e-mail address 25premiocelestinodecuento@gmail.com.
The pieces must be accompanied by a document containing the following information: title of the piece, brief description of the character or passage used to create the work and the author’s file.
The illustrations or designs will be received until February 25, 2024, after which the jury formed by three plastic artists will choose 25 pieces to make up the exhibition.
Ediciones La Luz offers the Telegram channel “Celestino Exposición”, where the novel “Celestino antes del alba” is available, as well as the model of the author’s file for downloading.
The publishing house clarifies that it will bear the printing and framing costs of the pieces, which will be kept for future traveling exhibitions within Cuba, without lucrative character and always stating the credit of their creators.
Likewise, the authors will keep the rights over their work, although the Publisher may disclose it in its social networks (Facebook, Instagram, X, Pinterest and YouTube) as part of the memory of the event, without implying an exclusive commitment with La Luz.
The Celestino Short Story Award had as winner in its first edition, in 1999, the writer Rubén Rodríguez with the short story “Flora and the Angel”, to which homage is paid in 2024, together with the 40th anniversary of the death of the storyteller, poet and translator Julio Cortázar and the 110th anniversary of the birth of Onelio Jorge Cardoso, “El cuentero mayor” (The Greatest Storyteller). / Aniel Santiesteban García.
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