Motus - Digital Literary Movement: awakening and disclosing national literature

Abstract

Motus – Digital Literary Movement is an action linked to the extension program called “C Program”, from the Federal University of Pampa (UNIPAMPA), which aims to encourage the production of literary works; to intensify the interest in literature among students and citizens; and to select and to publish unpublished literary works written in Portuguese. Motus’ first edition was composed by poems and short-stories around the theme “Freedom of speech”. In this context, this work aims to report the experience of organizing, producing and publishing this edition. Therefore, the knowledge related to the tasks that involved its development and how they are distributed among the commissions that integrate Motus as well as the processes of evaluation of the inscribed literary works, the creation of the layout and disclosure is exposed. In this way, there is a guide to inspire other Universities to contribute to the national literature, sowing and praising amateur writers.