Creative processes betwenn literature and journalism

Abstract

The channels through which journalism and literature travel have culminated in shared places, as is well known, since the very appearance of the first informative publications. They constitute two spheres which, in addition to leading towards hybridization or miscegenation, tend to be contaminated both in resources and in means, formulas, formats or objectives. The processes of literary creation are derived from the at times confusing tangling of the threads of two trades that are sometimes complementary and sometimes coincident, although in many cases and strictly speaking they should even oppose each other. Considerations of this nature can be found recurrently in the authors in which these two activities converge or have converged. In the Voces da narrativa: diálogos entre novas voces das letras galegas conference, organized by the Royal Galician Academy in November 2023, this aspect was addressed through the creative experience of the author of the following pages.