Women in the minificción. Coordinators: Laura Elisa Vizcaíno and Ana María Orjuela

At the end of the 20^th century and, above all, in the present 21^st century, literature and literary studies have placed women at their centre. This approach arises in response to decades of deliberate neglect and the idea that women had no reason to participate in art or any profession other than motherhood and homemaking.

The current interest in female writers in literary studies is evident in genres such as novels, essays, poetry and short stories. But what about microrrelato and minificción? During the lockdown of 2020, for example, some collectives became prominent by organising calls for submissions exclusively for women, as well as events to raise the profile of female authors. Nevertheless, studies on female authors and their role in these genres remain scarce. Therefore, from a critical and academic perspective, we must ask ourselves how the participation of women writers, women editors and women academics dedicated to the hyper-short genre is being studied, and how we can approach it analytically. Analysing women's participation may also be possible from the earliest examples of microrrelato, not just from a contemporary perspective. It is also necessary to consider the work of the first women in the development of the genre.

The thematic scope of the monograph will cover:

1. Production of female writers of minificción and microrrelato.
2. Pioneering female authors of the genre.
3. The work of women editors.
4. The contribution of women academics, researchers and critics.
5. The theme of women and/or femininity addressed by writers of minificción and microrrelato.
6. Compendiums, bibliographies and anthologies of women writers.
7. Collectives of women writers and other forms of organisation around women and minificción.

The timeframe of the studies may span the 20^th and 21^st centuries. We hope that scholars of literature in general will be interested in the topic and will be able to contribute their own perspective on the prolific genre of brevity.

You can find the author guidelines here. For this issue, only book reviews of works by women authors will be accepted.

Dates:
Submission deadline: July 20, 2026
Publication of the special issue: November 1, 2026