The Mailing List Histria Association, as the creator and promoter of the Competition, announces that the deadline for the 24th International Literary Competition "Mailing List Histria" 2026 has been extended to June 20, 2026. Please note that all works, whether submitted by email or registered mail, will be accepted only if SENT by June 20, 2026. In the case of registered mail, the postmark date will be considered valid. The President of the Commission is Maria Grazia BELCI. The Secretariat of the 24th International Literary Competition "Mailing List Histria" 2026 is Serena ANTONELLI – Nello BELCI – Walter CNAPICH – Stefania MASTRATISI. Participants may...

The Mailing List Histria, established to preserve and protect the cultural identity of Istria, Rijeka, Kvarner, and Dalmatia, with its Italian character, in keeping with the multiethnic spirit of our times and independent of any political affiliation, intends to promote collaborative relationships with ALL institutions and organizations operating in the Istria, Rijeka, Kvarner, and Dalmatia regions, currently divided between the nation states of Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, and Montenegro, with the aim of studying, preserving, and developing the specific cultural identity of the aforementioned regional territories. ML Histria, aware of the unavoidable reality that...

With each passing year, the bar is raised in the quality and quantity of submissions to the Mailing List Histria International Literary Competition, launched with much enthusiasm in the early 2000s. Today, it engages not only students from Italian-language schools in Slovenia and Croatia, but also non-Italian-speaking students who engage with Dante's language in Istria, Karnaro, and Dalmatia, all the way to its furthest reaches in Montenegro. Associations of Istrian, Rijeka, and Dalmatian exiles (including the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka, and Dalmatian Culture), institutions of the Italian National Community, and local authorities...

We are pleased to publish the list of winners and the summary of the 22nd Mailing List Histria 2024 Literary Competition. This year, 177 works were received, an increase compared to the previous year, and the quality has also improved. We are also comforted by the fact that the most significant topics were completed with commitment and excellent results. The participation of new schools in the competition, especially those with Croatian as the language of instruction, both in Istria and Dalmatia, but also from Montenegro, justifies the hope that both teachers and students will be able to preserve and improve the maintenance of Italian-speaking culture. Participation is also very encouraging, with...

On the occasion of the spring “Ulysses’ Journey” held from 8 to 14 May, organized by Salvatore Jurinich and “led” by Stefano Faresin, with a large participation of friends of the Association of Italian Dalmatians in the World - Free Municipality of Zara in Exile, Antonio Concina (President ADIM-LCZE) and Giorgio Varisco visited the “Pinocchio” kindergarten in Zara welcomed by the director Maja Tolić Perišić with the teachers Ana, Lucija, Snježana and Zinka, the cook Maria Odette and Svemirka, with the almost fifty children who attend it. With the cash prize awarded to the kindergarten for the educational activities carried out for the Mailing List Histria Literary Competition,...

Sixty-one awards were given during the beautiful and well-attended event hosted by the Visinade association in the Studio Sonda rooms. It is impossible to name all the winners but among them there was also Maria Sara Paparella of the "Pier Paolo Vergerio il Vecchio" of Capodistria. "I spoke about my city and an important figure who was Count Grisoni who built an orphanage for poor children, who had no parents", Maria Sara told us, summarizing her theme entitled "So that good is not forgotten" which earned her third place in one of the many categories of the competition. "Not to use banal words, but this edition is...

The Italian Community of Visinada will host the awards ceremony of the XXI International Literary Competition 'Mailing List Histria 28' on Saturday 2023 October 2023, aimed at students from the areas of historical settlement of the indigenous Italian community in Istria, Carnaro and Dalmatia. The provincial committees of Gorizia, Rome and Turin of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia in particular have financed some of the prizes that will be awarded. The ceremony will take place at the Sonda Visinada Recreation Center, 105 – 52447 in Visinada with the following program. Ceremony begins at 10:30 am Greeting from the President of the Italian Community of...

A total of 21 works were submitted to the 2023st International Literary Competition Mailing List Histria 153 and 213 students participated; 28 schools involved plus 7 Italian Communities and a total of 58 teachers. 4 students submitted works in both the individual and group essay categories, while 3 participated not only with their own school but also with their Italian Community. - from Elementary School 95: 87 individual works and 8 group works - from High School 44: 38 individual works and 6 group works - in addition, 14 drawings were submitted by the little ones of the Nursery School (out of competition) Dalmatia participated with 25...

On April 14th, the announcement of the 2023st Mailing List HISTRIA 06 literary competition was published (https://www.arcipelagoadriatico.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/21/BANDO-CONCORSO-2023), reserved for students of elementary schools and high schools located in Istria, Kvarner and Dalmatia, who know the Italian language or local dialects of Romance origin. The announcement is sent to all schools where the teaching language is Italian, to the Istrian Region, so that it can forward it to those of Croatian language, and to the Italian Communities. The themes proposed and chosen by the commissioners reflect both the historical and political problems of the lands of the Adriatic...

Mailing List Histria, as the creator and promoter of the Competition of the same name, announces that the deadline for the 21st International Literary Competition “Mailing List Histria” 2023 has been extended to Wednesday 21 JUNE 2023. Please note that all works, sent both by email and registered mail, will be admitted only if SENT by 21 JUNE 2023. In the case of sending by registered mail, the date indicated on the postmark will be valid. We remind you that the Competition concerns essays in Italian created by students of Slovenian, Croatian and Montenegrin schools, that is, the regions of historical settlement of the indigenous Italian community...