CIELE / ICWEL

International Convention of Writers in European Languages

Self-governed member of the National Syndicate of Spanish Writers

whose President is: Jesús Dumont

FIRST CALL

The time to send your paper for the XII International Convention of Writers in European Languages - fifth in the new way - is now open, from today to December, 31, 2010, last delay. We will meet at the Casa Diocesana de Espiritualidad, Camino de Los Almendrales, 2-4, MALAGA-29013, Spain. (Buses: 1 and 37), at the beginning of September 2011. The congress will last seven days, with days of lecture and days of excursions) Precise date and cost (including pension, excursions and all related to the Convention) will be given as soon as known.

The essay has to run on some literary theme, chosen from the very beginning of the written expression to the end of year 1800 of our era. What has already been treated in the four last Conventions has to be left out. The four books, with all the read papers, in English and Spanish, are in Internet: www.airmeeting.net. You can consult them.

The papers may have an extension of five pages (for a lecture of approximately 15 minutes. Excluding notes and bibliography that have to be written on a paragraph or page apart), double space, in Times New Roman 12. You can add to the essay any illustration you wish. There will be a debate after each lecture.

Send your paper by e-mail: airmeeting@telefonica.net, together with a brief curriculum, name and post address; or by normal post to Mariette Cirerol, President of the Standing International Committee of the CIELE-ICWEL, Apartado de Correo 650, 29080-MALAGA, Spain.

The writers shall read their papers during the XII Convention. Each one will receive a diploma and a copy of the book - which will be published in English and Spanish, and ready some time before the beginning of the meeting - . In the case your essay being accepted and published, a force majeure impede your presence at the Convention, you will receive both the book and the diploma by post.

Sincerely yours,

Mariette Cirerol