Cortar y pegar: Procesos editoriales comunitarios en los Talleres Locales y Distritales de Escritura Creativa de Bogotá

Abstract

Independent literary collectives in Colombia and the world have not only been responsible for offering publishing alternatives that generate ruptures in the sequences of traditional publishing, but have also been concerned with linking new audiences from a horizontal exchange that allows the creator to build community with their readers, with other creators and with their context. Along these lines, together with the IDARTES Creative Writing Workshops Network, I proposed to design a community publishing module that would recognize in local literary creation a space for the exchange of collective knowledge with which to promote an emerging scene of readers and creators in Bogota. With the module we hoped that the participants (who also received training in writing) would understand that their own creative process is part of a collective exercise that involves several actors in an organic way. The module explored in four hours the concept of literary edition and community, through activities that transversally involved other disciplines of the arts, while studying the searches of literary collectives that work with alternative forms of publication. During the module, instruments were included to serve as input to propose a publishing project involving the literary creation of the whole group, starting from real and achievable perspectives.