Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA) is a talent development project for the new generation of European literary voices across 11 different countries.
About
CELA brings together 165 literary artists across 11 European countries, bridging the gaps between emerging talent, the publishing industry, and European audiences.
Published 25 Jun 2026
Familiar feelings
CELA Work Week in Brussels - by Jannes van Leeuwen (Wintertuin)
Published 21 Jun 2026
Notes from Madrid
CELA Job Shadowing: Escuela de Escritores – by Monica Dimitrova (Next Page Foundation)
Published 7 Apr 2026
Notes from Wintertuinfestival
CELA Job shadowing: Nijmegen – by Maria Świątkowska (KBF)
Published 17 Mar 2026
Certainty is always suspicious
Introduction lecture by Georgi Gospodinov
Published 11 Feb 2026
Notes from Svět Knihy
CELA Job shadowing: Prague – by Marcelina Karcz (KBF)
Dive into our portals
Discover the work of our translators and writers via eight dynamic portals, each offering a journey into a curated selection of translated stories. These portals offer various interesting themes—identity, migration, belonging, language, magic, and resistance—creating a space for cross-cultural dialogue. By bridging linguistic and national boundaries, CELA’s publications celebrate the richness of European storytelling, offering new perspectives that connect us all today.
Portal of the month
Una declaración de dependencia
Translated from
Dutch
to
Spanish
by Guillermo Briz
Written in Dutch by Rebekka de Wit
9 minutes read
Kraj
Written in Serbian by Jasna Dimitrijević
8 minutes read
De metro
Translated from
Romanian
to
Dutch
by Jan Willem Bos
Written in Romanian by Cătălin Pavel
9 minutes read
Een paar verdwaalde minuten
Translated from
Romanian
to
Dutch
by Charlotte van Rooden
Written in Romanian by Cristina Vremes
10 minutes read
All portals
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
Mindbenders
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
Explore our connections with ecology, rituals, the cosmos, and the pressing climate challenges of our time
Alone With the World
Portraits of the struggle to find belonging in a world that feels unfamiliar