The digital magazine "Word – Reading and writing is resisting“, produced in the Algarve, which will have its official launch on the 28th of August, has, in its first issue, an unpublished poem by Nuno Júdice.
Despite its official launch, on the 28th, the magazine was presented on the 1st of August, «the birth date of Herman Melville, an important novelist in North American literature, short story writer, essayist and poet, immortalized with the masterpiece Moby Dick ».
The project was designed by Diana Almeida, an obstetrician, lover of books and writing, who once dedicated herself to a literary criticism blog, and Analita Alves dos Santos, author, literary activist, curator of the “Encontros Literários – Reading Club” reading club O Pleasure of Writing”, with more than 2500 members on Facebook. The design of the publication is by Isa Silva.
For the title, the mentors of the publication, in digital format, were inspired by Fernando Pessoa's “taste of words”; and for the motto “Reading and writing is resisting”, they were based on the words of Lídia Jorge, who stated that “literature is an absolutely indispensable act of resistance” and it is necessary to “publish, read and disseminate”.
Published every six months and distributed free of charge, “Word — To read and write is to resist”, works as a platform for the dissemination of new literary voices, but not only that.
Characterized by the diversity of items and subjects, the magazine shares chronicles, short stories, children's stories, poetry by known and unknown authors, chronicles, opinion articles from renowned voices in the national literary scene, History of literature, creative writing, motivational writing, review and text editing and literary criticism.
“Palavrar” also includes Proust's questionnaire to a special guest per edition.
“The aim is to enable learning from those who are at the forefront and give a voice to those who wish to lead the way in the Portuguese literary world”, explain the magazine's mentors.
“Word — Reading and writing is resistance” has the participation of twenty-one new authors, side by side with writers and specialists, such as Ana Salgado (who addresses the theme of proofreading and editing texts), David Roque (creative writing ), Filipa Melo (History of Literature), João Ventura (Literary Travel Chronicle), Júlia Domingues (Motivational Writing), Lénia Rufino (Chronicle), Luís Cardoso (Lusofonias), Sandra Barão Nobre (Bibliotherapy), Tânia Ganho (Literary Criticism ), Maria Luísa Francisco (poetic writing), James McSill (chronicle), in a total of 84 pages of entertainment, reflection and knowledge.
The guest poet of the first issue is Nuno Júdice, with an unpublished poem.
The official launch session of the new literary magazine, on the 28th of August, at 21 pm, will take place on the Zoom platform. Participation is free, subject to registration. here.
The first issue of the journal can be found here here.
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