On 8 June at 7 pm, TRAM will announce the winning story of the seventh edition of La TRAMa, the online contest for collective short stories in Catalan.

Bearing in mind the current health recommendations, and in an effort not to put any member of the contest at risk, TRAM has decided to continue with online prizes yet another year via live posts on its Instagram channel, as it did for the first time in 2020. The literary critic and La TRAMa jury member Marina Porras will announce the winning story next Tuesday and launch a series of interviews with the participating writers: Manuel Baixauli, Mireia Calafell, Carlota Gurt, Ivan Ledesma and Care Santos.

Thus, TRAM will take advantage of the occasion to turn the entire month of June into a literary event:

• 8 June at 7 pm: Instagram Live 1, where the winning story, the author who coordinated it and the order of the upcoming interviews will be revealed.
• 10 June at 7 pm: Instagram Live 2.
• 14 June at 7 pm: Instagram Live 3.
• 17 June at 7 pm: Instagram Live 4.
• 22 June at 7 pm: Instagram Live 5.

Once the TRAM Instagram interviews are over, they will be stored in our profile so they can be watched again.

Up to 150 volunteers made teams of 10 people to write a collective short story in May. The stories in the seventh edition of La TRAMa can be read open-source at https://bloc.tram.cat/la-trama-2021/. And starting on Tuesday, the corrected and edited winning story will also be available for reading.

• La vida complicada d’en Martí Rigau (Care Santos’ team)
• La invasió de les suplantadores de dones casades (Care Santos’ team)
• A què juguen els Martínez quan s’avorreixen (Care Santos’ team)
• Un gir de guió radical (Mireia Calafell’s team)
• Guionistes del món, rendiu-vos! (Mireia Calafell’s team)
• Trames al TRAM (Mireia Calafell’s team)
• Petit viatge a l'Entremón (Ivan Ledesma’s team)
• Un d’anada i tornada amb malson, si us plau (Ivan Ledesma’s team)
• Quantes cares hi entren, dins del TRAM? (Ivan Ledesma’s team)
• Esperarem tota la nit (Carlota Gurt’s team)
• La sospitosa hilaritat del conductor (Carlota Gurt’s team)
• El bitllet valia tres monedes d’or (Carlota Gurt’s team)
• Dins la caragola (Manuel Baixauli’s team)
• L’últim trajecte (Manuel Baixauli’s team)
• El xofer (Manuel Baixauli’s team)

Prizes for all participants

Everyone registered and participated in the contest and wrote at least one valid fragment will win a T-casual transport card for Zone 1, a free three-month subscription to the newspaper ARA and a 2-hour Laboratori de Lletres writing workshop with Alba Dalmau.

And the 10 co-authors of the winning story will receive three T-usual transport cards for Zone 1; a free three-month subscription to the newspaper ARA; a €50 voucher for the Ona Llibres bookshop at 94, Pau Claris; and a 20-hour Laboratori de Lletres writing workshop with Alba Dalmau.