If you'd like to read more Venezuelan writing:

Co-editor of Crude Words, Katie, has a site dedicated to Venezuelan literature, featuring information about books and authors and where to find English translations: venezuelanliterature.co.uk

Palabras Errantes have a great selection of translated stories called Voices From the Venezuelan City.

Words Without Borders have a special issue on Venezuela. 

For readers of Spanish, we recommend:

Ficción Breve Venezolana: ficcionbreve.org

Prodavinci: prodavinci.com

 

The Football Crónicas has its own facebook page with photo albums of of the book and of the book in interesting , not least football grounds worldwide. Send us your snap and we'll get it up there: >

The crónica is a hybrid form that combines journalism and storytelling, sometimes called New Journalism in English, or creative non-fiction. There is a boom in crónica writing across Latin America at present, with a number of fine magazines encouraging and publishing some exceptional work. Here are links to some of our favourites:

Etiqueta Negra (Peru) http://etiquetanegra.com.pe/ (publisher of The Goal-Begetting Women of the Andes)

Replicante (Mexico) http://revistareplicante.com/ (publisher of Costa Nica: The Central American Dream)

piauí (Brazil) http://revistapiaui.estadao.com.br/ (publisher of Congressman Romário: Big Fish in the Aquarium)

el puercoespín (Argentina) 

El Malpensante (Colombia) http://elmalpensante.com/