Puchi Award 2024

Puchi Award 2024 is now open for entries!

Puchi Award 2024 : La Casa Encendida and Fulgencio Pimente are pleased to present the fourth Puchi Award 2024, competition open to books in any genre or form: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, novels, comics, picture books, essays, cookbooks, geography books, combinations of the above or any other type imaginable.

Short description

La Casa Encendida and Fulgencio Pimentel are pleased to present Puchi Award 2024.

The Puchi Award welcomes book proposals in comics, illustrated books, and hybrid projects where images are central to the storytelling.

The competition is open to books in any genre or form: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, novels, comics, picture books, essays, cookbooks, geography books, combinations of the above or any other type imaginable. Organizer is looking for one-of-a-kind book, or even a whole new kind of book. ” The book we refer to is a work in which images play a major role in the narrative or expository development of the work. This includes established artistic categories such as the illustrated album and the comic book, as well as hybrid avenues or those on the margins of the above. Anything is possible, as long as the image plays a leading role. Works without text, and the use of any type of image: illustrations, photos, collage or any other type of image, are accepted. This competition is open to literary and graphic projects of any kind that stand out by virtue of their premise, literary and graphic quality, originality, unconventionality or mould – shattering conception. The aim of this award is to shine a spotlight on works of the highest quality and originality.

A book can contain everything and anything, and that is precisely what this contest wants: fiction and non-fiction, essays, informative literature, poetry, illustration, comics, cookbooks, geography books, combinations of the above or any other type of work. Conventional novels will not be considered and only novels that can be clearly defined as experimental will be accepted.

La Casa Encendida and Fulgencio Pimentel will have the final say regarding design and production aspects of the book.

Submission requirements:

➜ You may submit only finished works that have never been published.

➜ Works may be written in any language, although a provisional translation into English of at least two pages must also be submitted.

Who may enter?

The competition is open to adult authors of any nationality.

Prize:

The winner will receive a cash prize of 10,000 € and his work will be published and distributed by Fulgencio Pimentel.