This Saturday, at the Rosario International Book Fair, the Alma Maritano Short Story Contest —where I serve on the jury together with Sergio Gaiteri and Selva Almada, and which received more than 700 entries— announced its list of finalists.
This fifth edition, organized by the Casa Inga Cultural Cooperative together with Alma Maritano’s family, was open for the first time to writers from six provinces: Santa Fe, Córdoba, Santiago del Estero, Chaco, Corrientes and Entre Ríos.
The ten finalist stories (with their pen names) are:
- “Anomalía” (Correntada)
- “Contrato de locación temporal” (Duber Pinton)
- “El hombre desnudo” (Juanita De Gregorio)
- “Indalecio” (Bona Narcino)
- “La hora del bochorno” (Cisne de tinta)
- “Levantar un muro” (Turk182)
- “Mundo mágico Milo Marzán” (Juan Clemente)
- “Ozzy” (Tomás Brauer)
- “Rapaz” (Rufino J.)
- “Zombie” (Manuel)
The verdict and award ceremony will take place on November 27. The first prize is one million pesos, and the outstanding stories will be included in a printed anthology, published together with the UNR Press and the Rosario Municipal Press (El Ciudadano).
