Once upon a time, two years ago, a group group of friends, who were meeting to read their texts, decided to transfer their interest in writing to Cultural Activities Office. They presented the idea of creating a literary magazine made by university students, and the proposal was well received.

Two octubres later, the project has been consolidated and the committee publishing house formed by Pablo Mª de la Barrera, José Fanjul, Sergio Navarro, Eva Sacristán, Irene Zurera, Marta Revuelta and Miguel Bueno has decided to celebrate it with a reading evening at School de Comunicación.

The meeting was attended by Alejandro Néstor García, Associate Dean of students from School of Philosophy and Letters, who personified the pride that the University feels for these students:"It is an artistic project that is born from the most intimate of the University, which are its students, and from the most intimate of these students. It is the poet's vocation, which demands an attempt to communicate and share, something that Alborada is achieving and that goes very much hand in hand with what the university is, which has the goal of the search for truth, good and beauty, and of trying to share them to improve society". 

In this celebration, reading stood out over explanation. As one of the founders of the magazine, Sergio Navarro, says , when thinking about why he writes, literature is something that does not listen to explanations: "One day you think you write to express yourself, and the next morning you tell yourself that this is nonsense and that what happens is that a good idea has occurred to you. The next day you change your mind again. It's like that because, deep down, it's a set of all that."

What Sergio is very clear about is the magazine'sgoal : that young people can publish. "If we receive a lot of texts, it is because there are many writers, and that is always a joy. It is something that is not only ours, but is shared by the rest of our university literary community," he says.

When Alborada originated, the issue of texts was quite minor, but with enough time for it to become known, there are now not only poems and stories from the University of Navarra, but from universities in other places like Madrid or Valencia, and even from other countries like the United States or Italy, something that makes the founders especially excited. Now there are so many texts that the committee publishing house distributes the reading by dividing them into prose and verse to be more efficient, although they can also bet on the works of the other section.

As for the illustrations, they usually come especially from students of Audiovisual Communication and Architecture, although those of this fall edition are the work of Pablo María de la Barrera, who is doing a Master's Degree in faculty training at the Public University of Navarra.

Therefore, any student from anywhere in the world can make themselves known through Alborada with enough inspiration. Just send your texts to alborada@unav.es.