Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA) is a talent development project for the new generation of European literary voices across 11 different countries.
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CELA connects 165 literary artists across 11 European countries. Together, the partners and participants of the project are bridging the gaps between each other, the publishing industry and the European public.
A panel of international literary experts will discuss the impact of AI on (the future of) the literary industry. What do we talk about when we talk about AI?
By Raffaele Cataldo, writer IT
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A panel of international literary experts – publishers, editors, policymakers and writers – discuss writing as activism. How can literature support activist ideals, and what is needed for writers to activate communities and present the connections between people across the world?
Browse stories and samples from all our writers and translators. Throughout the years, this platform is becoming a growing archive of European literature by the future generation of literary artists.
Portal of the month
Čistička
Il depuratore
Kanalizacija
De zuiveringsinstallatie
Time After Time
Explore or alter the physics, the histories and the inevitability of time
Through the Rabbit Holes
Wander into magical realms and fantastical worlds where reality is constantly redefined or questioned
Goosebumps and Brain Freeze
Provoke your survival skills. Expose yourself to danger, exciting mysteries and mindbending realities
Ourselves and Others
Explore identity and connection through the body, family dynamics and self-reflection
Should I Stay or Should I Go
Take a journey through the tension between staying and leaving, journeys of personal growth and travelogues
A Change is Gonna Come
Reflect on themes of resistance, power dynamics, and the insistence on transformation for another now
Where the Wild Things Grow
Celebrate our ecological and ritual connections with Mother Earth and the cosmos
Alone With the World
Portraits of the struggle to find belonging in a world that feels unfairly unfamiliar