Publishing Guild 2025-2026

As a Publishing Guild, we understand the text – and its multiple forms – as a body that dialogues with a network of experiences. In this textual fabric, the body is not an isolated component, but an active presence that recreates, creates tension, and assumes an active role throughout the entire process.

From this perspective, we question the normalisation of texts, archives, and hegemonic narratives that see editing and publishing as an element external to textualisation. On the contrary, we intend to position the text and the body as the centre, exploring and expanding processes of collective and self-publishing that do not necessarily respond to punitive or annulment spaces.

Likewise, we think about how dirty it is: that unknown space of editing, that stage of the journey in which doubts, possibilities, unfinished ideas and those that dialogue with other times and other forms coexist. We maintain that the publishing process is not limited to producing books or publications; rather, we propose expanding the definition, prioritising processes over products, beyond their technical or strictly “editorial” dimension. 

We consider editing and publishing as a critical, situated, and collective practice: a space for reflection and support.

David Coñomán Romero, Lourdes Gay-Punzano and Mercedes Saya Rosés

Biographies:

David Coñomán Romero, Mapuche, teacher, editor and writer. He works around literature, art and Indigenous textualities with a focus on the Mapuche worldview. His research dialogues with literature, body, gender, memory and the environmental impacts on ancestral territories. He is currently a PhD candidate in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Lourdes Gay-Punzano

Mercedes Saya Rosés is a communicator, event producer, artist and curator based in Barcelona. Since 2019, she has been part of Catàrsia, an artistic-political collective of Asian descendants, with which she has given forum theatre workshops in schools and secondary schools and has participated in conferences (Jornades Interacció 2023, VIII Encuentro de Cultura y Ciudadanía), in the documentary portraying the reality of the children of migrants in Catalonia (Descendents, 2020), and has co-organised two editions of Furiasia at the CCCB (2021 and 2022), the first festival by and for Asian diasporas in Spain. In addition, she has been part of the CCCB’s first resident collective (2023-2024), organising “Encaixar”, a one-day event that was part of the Biennial of Thought (2024) and was later turned into an exhibition at Cordova gallery (2024). She also co-curated, together with a group of artists and activists, the exhibition “Susurros, bulla y paradojas. Tentativas para una política de la enunciación” (2025) at Santa Mònica, where she exhibited her piece “Casa-cajas de muñecas” (2025).