New call for entries for the UAB Literary Journalism Prize 2025

From 16 June to 30 September, the sixth edition of the Literary Journalism Prize will be open, with which the Master's in Literary Journalism, Communication and Humanities of the UAB, in collaboration with the Publications Service, distinguishes novel-lat reports and unpublished works of documentary literature in Catalan. The rules can be consulted on the website of the master's degree. The winning work will be announced in December.

The Master's Degree in Literary Journalism, Communication and Humanities at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) was created in 2012 in response to the need for a broad and consistent training in communication and humanities. The studies stand out for making use of its own methodology in quality journalism and writing resources in composition and style. In 2013, the Master's degree promoted the 1st UAB Literary Journalism Award with the aim of recognising the best works of documentary literature and novel-lat reportage arising from the final master's degree projects (TFM) of its students, with participation open to everyone. Since then, the different editions of the award have been organised with the collaboration of several private publishers, such as Editorial Base and Ángulo Editorial. The 6th Literary Journalism Prize will have the participation of the UAB Publications Service, which will be in charge of publishing and distributing the winning work in paper and digital format.

According to the new 2025 rules, the works submitted must be unpublished, written in Catalan and have a length of between 130,000 and 170,000 characters (including white spaces). The deadline for submitting original works opens on Monday 16 June and closes on Tuesday 30 September.

Over the years, the jury for the Prize has been made up of Master's lecturers who are also writers, such as Miqui Otero, Juan Pablo Villalobos, Esteve Plantada, Eileen Truax and Begoña Gómez Urzaiz, and other important writers on the national and international literary or journalistic scene, such as Leila Guerriero, Gaby Martínez and Txell Feixas, among many others. The jury of this sixth edition will be made public before the closing date and its verdict will be announced at a prize-giving ceremony in December 2025, in a place to be determined.

Previous calls for entries and winning works

The prize has been held biannually since 2013, the first two times with the collaboration of Editorial Base, which published two anthologies of the winning pieces. The first was Cuando encuentres a Malinowski y otros relatos de periodismo literario (2013), with pieces on the investigation of an old Argentinian poet lost in Barcelona in the 1970s, the ETA attack on the petrochemical plant in Tarragona and the text, both funny and tragic, about an enterprising housewife who, faced with the crisis, decides to open a brothel in her own home. The second call for entries (2015) gave rise to Ritmos para el paraíso, also with three stories: one about the survival of migration in Barcelona, another that investigates a case of flagrant (and terrible) miscarriage of justice, and a last one that deals with the tradition of post-war children in the Ebro of collecting scrap metal from the final battle of the Civil War, a custom that became a lifelong hobby and true domestic museums, a very different approach to the war conflict.

The last three calls for entries for the Prize have been made with Ángulo Editorial, which has published the winning works: 23 días de diciembre, by Marc Amat, a mystery case about the death of a relative; Menors i migrants, by Marina Sonadellas, a social worker in a centre for migrant minors, which was also published in Spanish by Polen Editorial; and La Bodega, by Miguel Peña, about the closure of the famous Rafel bar in the Sant Antoni market, which deals with the gentrification and touristification of Barcelona through the closure of a historic bar where twenty-four hours were spent, a work inspired by Joseph Mitchell's mythical work on the oldest bar in New York. Dozens of works have also been published that have not won in recent years, but which are of high quality. Some of the most recent are Las niñas de Elna, by Marc Solanes, or Santa Carolina, by Julieta Morales.

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6th Literary Journalism Prize

Organised by: Master's Degree in Literary Journalism, Communication and Humanities at the UAB.

In collaboration with: Publications Service of the UAB

Entries: from 16 June to 30 September 2025

Rules and further information: https://periodisme-literari.uab.cat