Fernando Navarro

(Spain, 1980)

Writer and screenwriter born in Granada. As a film screenwriter, he has collaborated with filmmakers such as Álex de la Iglesia, Rodrigo Cortés, Paco Plaza, Jonás Trueba and Jaume Balagueró. He has been nominated twice for the Goya Awards, in the categories of Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay. Among his filmography stand out Toro (2016), Veronica (2018) and A Perfect Enemy (2020). His most recent script to date is Below Zero (2021), a thriller for Netflix that reached the number-one position in more than 55 countries. 
    He is a member of the Writers Guild of America and has taught Creative Writing workshops at Syracuse University and Le Moyne College, both in New York. He has collaborated with media such as Radio 3, Cadena SER, MondoSonoro or Letras Libres. His collection of short stories Malaventura (Impedimenta) it is his first book.

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A slow-burn process: from book to film

Julia Rios

(United States od America, 1978)

I was born in 1978 in Los Angeles, California. My father came to the USA from Yucatán when he was a teenager, and eventually became a psychologist. He loved reading and discussing everything from folktales and literature to science, and philosophy. My mother is also a voracious reader, so it’s perhaps not surprising that I have always been drawn to storytelling. 

I began editing short fiction for the online science fiction and fantasy magazine, Strange Horizons in 2012, and I have been doing that ever since for both magazines and anthologies. I won the Hugo Award in 2017 and 2018 for my work as Reprint and Poetry Editor at Uncanny Magazine, and I was also a Hugo Award Finalist for other editing work in 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2019. My current project is editing and publishing uplifting science fiction and fantasy stories, poems, and art in Worlds of Possibility. 

I also write my own stories and poems and essays. My stories have been published in several places including Speculative Fiction for Dreamers (The Ohio State University Press, 2021, Alex Hernandez, Steve Goodwin, and Sara Rafael García, editors) and Shadow Atlas (Hex Publishers, 2021, Carina Bissett, Hillary Dodge, and Josh Viola, editors). “A Truth Universally Acknowledged” (A Larger Reality, 2018, Libia Brenda, editor) was reprinted in Latin American Literature Today. 

Sofía Morfín Jean

(México)

I am Sofía Morfin Jean, I was born in 1992 and I am "chilanga" by birth and by choice. I firmly believe that there is no better place to spend the years laughing and crying than in chaotic Mexico City. My first collection of short stories Big Bang Bermellón won the Gilberto Owen National Literature Award 2023 and will be published later this year by Pollo Blanco Publishing House (purchase your copy as soon as possible). I have also published short stories and opinion texts inTierra Adentro, C de Cultura and Mi Valedor. In 2021, I graduated from the diploma of creative writing by the Sogem Writers School, and I currently work as a film and television screenwriter. What I like most in life is literature. After money. And after buying books that I don't have enough time to read.

Alberto Chimal

(Toluca, México, 1970) es escritor y profesor de escritura creativa. Entre otros reconocimientos, en 2002 obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Cuento y en 2014 el Premio de Narrativa Colima, otorgados por el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes; en 2013 su novela La torre y el jardín fue finalista del Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos; en 2019 su libro para niños La Distante recibió el premio internacional de la Fundación Cuatrogatos, y en 2021 su novela juvenil La noche en la zona M ganó el premio internacional del Banco del Libro. Otras de sus obras son las novelas Los esclavos (2009) y La visitante (2022); una veintena de libros de cuentos, de los que el más reciente es La saga del Viajero del Tiempo (2021); los guiones de las películas 7:19 (2016), dirigida por Jorge Michel Grau, y Confesiones (2022), dirigida por Carlos Carrera; y Funeral, una historia ilustrada por Rulo Valdés que forma parte de la novela gráfica Batman: El Mundo (2021), publicada por DC Comics. Textos suyos se han traducido a una docena de idiomas y han aparecido en antologías internacionales.
 

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The Pleasure of Reading Galas
International Storytellers Conference
International Storytellers Conference
A slow-burn process: from book to film
Started as a Story and Ended as a Novel. The Art of Narrating