More than a thousand works submitted to the Antonio Machado Train Awards for Poetry and Short Story

2023-07-29 00:00:00

More than a thousand works submitted to the Antonio Machado Train Awards for Poetry and Short Story

(28/07/2023)

In this edition, in addition to Spain, there have been participants from Germany, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, the United States, El Salvador, France, Guatemala, Greece, Honduras, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Panama, the Netherlands, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, the Dominican Republic, Sweden, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The first three countries by number of works presented are Argentina (102), Cuba (43) and Colombia (29).

By autonomous communities, Madrid, Andalusia and Catalonia occupy the top positions in number of works presented, with 172, 111 and 91, respectively. Authors residing in Spain or in other countries with works written in any official language of Spain could participate in the contest. Most of the works have been written in Spanish, a total of 1,003, seven in Catalan, eight in Galician and one in Basque.

Reading commit

Until the month of September, a reading committee will select the final twelve works: six poems and six short stories. The decision and delivery of the 2023 Train Awards are scheduled for the month of October, coinciding with the commemoration of the first peninsular railway, the Barcelona-Matar line, which this year also celebrates its 175th anniversary. The finalist works will be published in December, in the Train Awards Collection.

The Awards are endowed with a total of 22,000 euros, which are divided between the two categories (poetry and story) as follows: 6,000 euros for the first prize, 3,000 euros for the second and three second prizes of four hundred euros, in each of the modalities. Added to them this year is a ‘175 Years of the Train Special Prize’ of eight hundred euros, in each category, to commemorate the inauguration of the first railway on the Peninsula.

More information and previous awarded works:

Train Awards – Spanish Railways Foundation (ffe.es)