Illustration Schools

EMERGING VOICES
SCHOOLS OF ILLUSTRATION

This program offers the winners, finalists and semi-finalists a trip to the Bologna Book Fair, an accompanying program and a book review with publishers respectively.

It also offers participating schools a masterclass for all of its students and promotes an annual meeting for illustration teachers from all over Spain.

Winner

Omar Enrique Fonseca Loo

EASD Serra i Abella

Jury

André Letria

Pato Lógico editor – Portugal

Fundou a editora Pato Lógico em 2010, após mais de 20 anos a trabalhar como ilustrador. Também se dedicou à animação e à cenografia para teatro.

Mónica Bergna

Alboroto Ediciones editor – Mexico

Alboroto Ediciones is a Mexican publishing house founded in 2018 with its core ideal being teamwork and collaboration. Because of this, our creators are also part of the company. All of our books use imagery to displace the reader and generate a reaction from them.

Magalí Homs

Cultural manager and director of Tantàgora with a long history in the diffusion of oral and written literature for children and youthful.

Calendar

The 20 selected participants access a support and networking program that consists of the following actions:

Intensive online training over 5h:

→ Copyright
→ How to value your work financially
→ How to prepare a book
→ How to connect with the CYL sector
→ How to present yourself to a publisher

→ Winner & finalists
→ May 2024

Support in the preparation of one’s own portfolio in front of a selection of international publishers.

→ Winner & finalists
→ May 2024

Elevator Pitch

Networking

14.06.2024: Presentation by those who have been selected in the Elevator Pitch section for a group of international and national publishers as part of the CYL Publishing Market in Madrid Book Fair.
→ Winner & finalists

1-2.04.25: Trip to the Bologna Book Fair
→ Winner

Face-to-face meeting with a national editor

Who will review the participants’ portfolio and advise them on its design, as well as on the selection of works, their order and presentation.

→ Selected and all participants
→ May 2024 to June 2024

Exhibition and catalogue

With the aim of promoting and disseminating the selected participants, the program has an exhibition of the works presented and a catalog with all the selected ones that will be distributed among the national and international editors participating in the different networking meetings of the program.

→ Winner & finalists

Meeting of illustration teachers

from all over the region as part of the Madrid Book Fair in 2024.

→ June 2024

FAQS

Who can participate?

→ 2nd year students of the upper cycle of illustration and 3rd year students in design from the art schools that are part of the program.

→ The centers pay a fee of €60 to be part of it and the participating students must register (€5 per student)

What does the program offer in illustration schools?

→ The opportunity for one of his students to be selected as a winner, finalist and semi-finalist of the program.

→ A masterclass by a publisher or literary agent with a recognized track record for all participating students.

→ A meeting of illustration teachers* from all over the region as part of the Madrid Book Fair in 2024.

*Tantágora assumes the travel cost of one teacher per center.

How are the finalist and semi-finalist students selected?

→ Through the call for a selection process for all participating students which consists of illustrating an CYL text.

→ From Tantàgora we provide the participating schools with a selection of texts to be illustrated in a specific technique.

→ An international jury composed of Móniga Bergna from Alboroto Ediciones Mexico, André Leibia from the Patológico de Portugal publishing house and Magalí Homs director of Tantàgora, will select the winner, finalists and semi-finalists of the program.

What is the prize for the winner?

1. INTENSIVE ONLINE TRAINING OVER 5h:
→ Copyright
→ How to value your work financially
→ How to prepare a book
→ How to connect with the CYL sector
→ How to present yourself to a publisher

2. ELEVATOR PITCH: support in the preparation of one’s own portfolio in front of a selection of international publishers.

3. PRESENTATION by those who have been selected in the Elevator Pitch section for a group of international and national publishers as part of the Madrid Book Fair in June 2024.

4. TRIP TO THE BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR. The best ranked students will travel to the Bologna Book Fair 2025 and have their entrance fees, flights and accommodation paid for. In the event that the winners live outside of Spain, Tantàgora assumes the cost of a ticket from Spain to Bologna.

What does the finalist prize consist of?

2. ELEVATOR PITCH: support in the preparation of one’s own portfolio in front of a selection of international publishers.

3. PRESENTATION by those who have been selected in the Elevator Pitch section for a group of international and national publishers as part of the Madrid Book Fair in June 2024.

What does the semi-finalist prize consist of?

FACE-TO-FACE MEETING WITH A NATIONAL EDITOR who will review the participants' portfolio and advise them on its design, as well as on the selection of works, their order and presentation.

In the event that those selected do not show up for the session, it will not be rescheduled.

*Tantagora is not responsible for the cost of travel if there is any.

Calendar

→ 15.07.23 to 15.11.23 confirmation of the centers' participation. Payment of the fee, cost per student and signing of the agreement.

→ 10.01.24 receipt of the selection bases.

→ 10.01.24 to 21.03.24 preparation of the works to be presented.

→ 21.03.24 deadline to present the works.

→ 24 to 26.04.24 masterclass from the publisher with a recognized track record.

→ April - bookreview of semifialists

→ 03.05.24 Announcement of selected students participating in the accompaniment program

→ 08.05.2024 Online meeting with those selected to explain the accompanying program and important dates.

→ 08 to 30.05.24 five online sessions of intensive training

→ 03 to 07.06.24* Support in the preparation of the elevator pitch

→ 12.06.24* presentation to a selection of international publishers as part of the Madrid Book Fair

→ 12.06.24* meeting of illustration teachers all over the region as part of the Madrid Book Fair

Meeting of illustration teachers

Veus Emergentes promotes an annual meeting between illustration teachers from all over Spain, in the framework of the Madrid Book Fair* in June 2024. The aim of this meeting is to facilitate a meeting and exchange space between teachers to assess and analyze possible collaborations between the centers of the network within the framework of this program.

*Tantágora assumes the cost of the travel of a teacher from each participating center.