The Magaluf Expanded Literature Festival (FLEM) has announced the first literary residency in the town, a program offering two ten-day creation grants for writers working in Catalan and English. The residences will take place at the Innside Calvià Beach hotel and include accommodation, travel, an economic endowment of 500 euros, and participation in the next edition of the festival. The deadline for submitting applications will be open until June 15, and applications must be sent through the form available on the event's website.the event's website.

Of the vast majority of writers, only the published works are known. This means not only those that found a publishing house to launch them onto the market, but, above all, those that the authors themselves considered finished, as good. But in most careers, many are left by the wayside for very diverse reasons: authors who lose interest in the topic they are working on, the emergence of new projects that turn out to be more seductive, urgent, or timely, and the daily complications that surround the writing process, which can have as much to do with inspiration as with the conditions of the jobs with which the writing profession is normally combined. Eight island authors share with ARA Balears the texts they are currently working on, when many of them do not even have a publication date secured. These are the books we may not know if we will read, but that they are all writing now.

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.

The year is 1965. Sunday, October 10th. It's a radiant, sunny autumn day. And their joy is complete when the Salord and Ripoll family, from Ciutadella, receives the news that the youngest of five siblings has arrived: the now well-known writer Maite Salord and Ripoll. The little girl came just as her eldest brother, Pedro, 17 years her junior, was leaving the island to study in Barcelona. Fina Salord, the middle sister, 10 years her junior and with whom she shares a passion for literature and philology, tells us about the youngest member of the family's childhood.