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.
When the earth shakes, and when everyone tells us to be silent, we choose to write, create, and erase the boundaries between art and real life. Under pressure, but — together. Because, when the pressure overwhelms us, we resist with solidarity and engaged words. No pressure, under pressure!
Some POVs from Ivrea Book Fair – by Lorenzo Carnielo (Scuola Holden)
Watch & read
By Oleksandra Laktionova (translator ES-UA), Dimana Miteva (translator SL-BG), and Magdalena Ukrainets (translator UA-PL),
Edited by Marieta Bakirtzidou (intern for CELA)
Reflections about International Book Arsenal Festival – by Olena Roman (translator IT – UK)
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
Kraj
De metro
Een paar verdwaalde minuten
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
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