The island's literary scene is constantly evolving. In recent times, in fact, a new generation of writers has emerged, sharing a number of common threads: born during the 1990s and early 2000s, almost all confess to having written practically since they were born. Many of them have managed to publish thanks to an award, and for all of them, having published has affected their writing in one way or another. Even so, more than one describes the literary sector as not very permeable, or even hermetic, and they don't hesitate to share the doubts and contradictions they experience as part of it in order to reach their readers—although most prefer to discuss all of this either in writing or in WhatsApp audio messages, rather than in person. They have diverse interests and influences, ranging from iconic pieces of recent audiovisual media such as Twin Peaks From classics of world literature, such as José Saramago, Mercè Rodoreda, and Emily Dickinson, to other authors of her generation, from Laura Gost to Sebastià Portell, including Núria Bendicho and Pilar Codony. These are the new voices of Catalan literature emerging from the Balearic Islands.

In Mallorca, in Manacor, ghosts are called bubotas. They are those specters (sometimes physical, sometimes eternally haunting) that disturb the present, turning the everyday into a painful and difficult-to-manage ordeal. In 1977, shortly after Franco's death, Antoni Mus (Felanitx, 1925–Manacor, 1982) was brave enough to tell, in a novel, the story of the Bubotas of the Civil War in Manacor, the landing on the coast, and the lingering effects of the subsequent years of repression.

There are numerous examples of novels, poetry collections, and comics that have not only been set in the author's immediate surroundings but have also been used to reflect on these scenarios from very diverse perspectives, such as Antònia Vicens's '39° a la sombra' (39° in the Shadow), the bulk of Gabi Beltran's poetic work on the Costa del Sol, and Bartomeu Seguí's. However, there are also those who have decided, at one time or another, to leave the local context and place their works in coordinates that, apparently, have little or nothing to do with the Islands.