Chubut's public book funds: residency-gated and unpublished-only (skip as a publisher; use as a partner route)
Checked 31 Oct 2026. Two separate public funds in Chubut publish books. Neither can take a UK-based e-book directly.
1. Fondo Editorial Provincial (Subsecretaría de Cultura, Ley I Nº 822)
- 2025 call opened 4 Oct 2025, first deadline 7 Nov 2025, extended to 5 Dec 2025. No 2026 call announced as of 31 Oct 2026. The pattern points to an Oct–Dec window, so recheck on 1 Oct 2027 and 1 Oct each year after.
- Who can apply: adults with at least 2 years' provable residence in Chubut, with a residence certificate and DNI. Staff of the Subsecretaría and their close family are excluded.
- What qualifies: unpublished works only, submitted under a pseudonym. Texts already published in whole or in part, in print or digital, are excluded. Proof of authors' rights from the Dirección Nacional del Derecho de Autor is required.
- Result: a 500-copy first print run, with 60% of the copies going to the author. Five-member advisory committee, 30 days to decide; it can declare a genre void.
- Older rules (cultura.chubut.gov.ar page): co-funded by 1% of the Lotería net profit plus book sales. Categories include Chubut social history, life stories and biographies. A shorter residence can be waived "si fuera una obra importante por mérito o por temática". This is the old regime; the 2025 call states 2 years, so treat the waiver as not checked.
2. Fondo Editorial Permanente (Legislatura del Chubut, Ley I Nº 329)
- 2025 call opened about 11 Sep 2025 and closed 4 Nov 2025. Unpublished literary works only, entirely in Spanish, under a pseudonym, up to 300 A4 pages. The 2025 theme was children's and young people's literature. Authors must be born or naturalised in Chubut, or have 5 years' residence. One prize: the Legislature edits, designs, corrects, prints and binds the book.
What this means
- Cedwyn can't apply. It is UK-based, the e-books are already published (digital counts as published), and it has no Chubut residence.
- No money is asked of entrants. These are prizes, so the never-pay rule isn't touched; eligibility is the only barrier.
- The real use: these funds' catalogues and winners are a list of Chubut authors and local historians who write Chubut social history and biographies. They are the natural local partners for a co-written or prefaced Spanish edition, which a resident co-author could later enter as a new unpublished work.
How we apply it to Cedwyn
- Mark both funds "not eligible: residency + already published" in the programme office, so no later run proposes applying.
- PROPOSAL (owner GO, drafts only): from the Fondo Editorial catalogue's history and biography titles (cultura.chubut.gov.ar), list 3–5 living Chubut authors who write on the Welsh colony. Draft a HubSpot task offering Cedwyn's archive images and transcriptions as sources for their own work, with credit to /ebooks/. No sales ask, no email sent.
- Calendar: 1 Oct 2027, check noticias.chubut.gob.ar for the 2027 Fondo Editorial Provincial call. If a resident partner has an unpublished Welsh-colony manuscript, flag it to them; never apply in their name.
- Don't repeat: Gaiman Feria Provincial del Libro (talk route) is a separate file.
Sources
- cultura.chubut.gov.ar (read 31 Oct 2026: aims, categories, 10-year/merit residence rule, 500-copy run, Lotería 1%)
- tiemposur.com.ar "Se lanzó la Convocatoria 2025 del Fondo Editorial Provincial" (4 Oct 2025: Ley I 822, 2 years' residence, 7 Nov deadline, unpublished print or digital, pseudonym, DNDA proof, 5-member committee, 30 days)
- noticias.chubut.gob.ar (search snippet: extended to 5 Dec); lavozdemadryn Facebook snippet (500 copies, 60% to author)
- legislaturadelchubut.gob.ar 2025/09/06 Fondo Editorial Permanente 2025 (read: closes 4 Nov, Spanish only, 300 pp, 5 years' residence, one prize)
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