FeLiNo 2026: Enrique Serna opens CECUT’s free literature festival Wednesday; Elma Correa presents Saturday

The program for the 18th Festival de Literatura en el Norte (FeLiNo) is out. The free festival at the Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT) opens on Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 6 p.m. in the Sala Federico Campbell with a welcome from CECUT’s general director, Miriam García Aguirre, followed by novelist Enrique Serna presenting El dios hambriento, according to La Jornada Baja California. This year’s theme is “Territorio y Raíz.” CECUT’s November program lists FeLiNo from Tuesday, Nov. 10, through Saturday, Nov. 14, with free entry.

Day by day

• Wednesday, Nov. 11: besides the opening, authors Andrea Carrillo, Alejandra Pegueros and Iliana Hernández take CECUT’s 2024 book collection across the border to talk with literature students at the University of San Diego.
• Thursday, Nov. 12: José Kordero presents La Nana Nahual, and independent publishers from the border region hold a panel.
• Friday, Nov. 13: talks by Humberto Félix Berumen and Heriberto Yépez, and Socorro Venegas presents Leche de silencio.
• Saturday, Nov. 14: Minerva Reynosa, Rocío Cerón and Marlon PV take part, and Mexicali writer Elma Correa presents Donde termina el verano, the novel that won the 2026 Premio Biblioteca Breve. The festival closes with a toast at 8 p.m.

Ana Clavel also presents Autobiografía de la piel; La Jornada’s schedule gives its day inconsistently, so check the final program. The festival also has a section for independent bookstores and publishers from the Tijuana–San Diego region, and Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Guanajuato and Baja California present recent winners of their literary contests. Tijuana’s culture department will also talk about the city’s national poetry prize, whose 2026 winner was announced Friday. Starting Tuesday, Nov. 17, after the festival, “FeLiNo en tu comunidad” takes arts workshops to Tijuana neighborhoods, and “Felinito” has storytelling and workshops for children (no dates were given for those).

Before you go

• Entry is free, per CECUT. Apart from the opening and the closing toast, session times hadn’t been published, so check cecut.gob.mx before you head over.
• CECUT is on Paseo de los Héroes in Zona Río; see our CECUT profile. The festival is also on our calendar, and the rest of CECUT’s month is in our November roundup.