The female literary voice, the focus of the colloquium organized by the Alfonsina Chapel and the CNL

The female voice in the literary scene in pursuit of equality and diversity is the center of a series of activities to commemorate International Women’s Day. Conferences, workshops, readings, book presentations and other academic activities make visible the contribution and presence of women in literature throughout this month.

Last Thursday the dialogue table took place Crossed itineraries of Alfonso Reyes and women in Latin American letters with the writers Silvia Molina, Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, Martha Robles and Mercedes Sierra, at the fourth International Colloquium Alfonso Reyes and the Women of their Time 2026.

Two more tables of that meeting will be held on March 12, headed by Luisa Ballesteros, María Dolores Bolívar and Mariana Martínez Fortuno (Mexico), as well as by Sonia Chouaibi, Mariel Monente and Patricia Rosas Lopátegui. They will be broadcast on the Facebook pages of the Alfonsina Chapel and the National Literature Coordination (CNL).

A space for the readers’ gaze

On the CNL Facebook account, researcher Raquel Ortega Moreno will lead the conversation Views from the edges: Readers who inhabit the periphery. It will be broadcast on March 10 at 5 p.m.

The following Thursday at 4 p.m., the Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts will host a poetic reading about the sculptor Geles Cabrera, in which the authors will refer to their resonances with the themes of the artist’s exhibition at that venue.

On March 13 at 7 p.m. the eighth Anthology of Mexican Women Writers will be launched at the Xavier Villaurrutia Literary Creation Center. It is the result of the national short story contest organized by EscritorasMx and Bitácora 52.

The text reflects the problems that define the experience of being a woman. It brings together texts by Adriana Campos, Zully Vaillard, Joamit Escudero, Edurne Villanueva, Heidy Serrano, Estelí Morales, Yesenia Jasso, Royina Arróniz, Karime Velázquez and Cristina Liceaga.

The next day, at 12 noon, the International Seminar on Gender Studies in Art and the Meeting of Women in Literature will be held in the Adamo Boari room of the Palace of Fine Arts, with the participation of Leticia Armijo, Margarita Tortajada, Cecilia Figueroa and Hortensia Carrasco.

The writer Anaclara Muro will offer a talk in which she will reflect on the construction of female identity, gender mandates and the bodily experience. It will be on March 19 at 7 p.m. at the Xavier Villaurrutia Literary Creation Center.

The poet Beatriz Saavedra Gastélum will speak on writing as learning, memory and affirmation of one’s own voice.

It will be broadcast on March 24 at 5 p.m. on CNL’s Facebook.