About us

Reading Series and Workshops

EN CONSTRUCCIÓN: New Works by Latin American Writers is a series of literary readings that aims to offer a creative and collaborative space for New York-based Latin American writers in their native languages, primarily Spanish and Portuguese.

In each of our reading sessions (two per season), guest writers read an unfinished or not-yet-completed-piece. Writers are also encouraged to share with the audience their creative process behind their work (the genesis of the idea, challenges, or concerns) to generate a constructive conversation with attendees.

We celebrate diversity in all of its forms. Each group of writers in our reading sessions come from different parts of Latin America and explore a vast range of topics, styles, and genres (theater, poetry, novel, short story, screenplay, literary essay, and non-fiction chronicle).

Director & founder

Guillermo Severiche (Argentina, 1986) is a writer, academic researcher, and university-level educator.

As a writer, he has published short stories and essays in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Spain, and Chile. His first novel, “El agua viene de noche”, was published by GG Editora in Argentina in 2021. His plays have received staged readings in New York, Orlando, and Madrid.

He has obtained grants from QCA, Flushing Town Hall, and the New York Foundation for the Arts to fund and direct EN CONSTRUCCIÓN. He also works as Literary Manager at IATI Theater, a Latinx bilingual company in the East Village. During the 2023-2024 academic year, he works as a Visiting Associate Professor of Spanish and Creative Writing at Wesleyan University.

He holds a Bachelor’s in Modern Literatures from Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Mendoza, Argentina) as well as an M.A. in Hispanic Studies and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, LA). In 2016, he moved to New York to complete an M.F.A. in Creative Writing in Spanish at NYU.