This literary contest seeks to distinguish emerging and established writers through the publication of their works, in addition to recognizing their work through a monetary incentive.

The academic of the Department of Arts and Letters of the University of La Serena, Dr. Walter Hoefler, and the young poet from Serena and student of the Dentistry program at the ULS, Hugo Godoy (Paulo San Páris), were winners of the First Contest of Regional Poetry ''Stella Díaz Varín Editorial Fund'' of the Municipality of La Serena, in the Unpublished Poetry and Emerging Young People categories, respectively. 

Both the teacher and the student from the state campus were awarded during a ceremony held in the offices of the Municipal Library of La Serena, as was Juan Mancilla, a former student of the institution, who received a special mention.

ULS professor Walter Hoefler won first place for his work ''Guiños y tolls'', a set of poems referring to people (winks) and places (tolls). ''The poem is thus a record, payment for the stay, being the places (Budapest after the fall of the wall, Cornwall, Venice) and in the case of the people it is pseudo elegies, not to call them posthumous dialogues with Enrique Lihn, Raúl Ruiz, Mañil Huenu, the first lonko or weichafe to resist the onslaught of the Chilean state in the XNUMXth century.''

While Paulo San Páris reached first place in the Emerging Young People category for ''ISOHILE'', which he considers his ''most worked and most complex book,'' it took me almost three years to write it in its entirety, since he They adhere to various ways of entering or being read, such as a sociological, anatomical, esoteric, historical, botanical, poetic treatise, among others. The idea of ​​this was to open a range of reading possibilities for the reader and in this way encourage them to complete coverage of the same book,'' said Hugo Godoy, who in 2009 won the award in the Poetry category from the ''Manuel Editorial Fund Concha'' with her first book ''Sogol Gaza''.

The young regional poet explained that the objective of ''ISOHILE'' is to ''deliver an allegory about the Chilean Military Dictatorship, a topic that I knew in advance is not new, but I am interested that the form was new. I linked this with paradoxical allusions to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, which allowed me to give it the effect and form of a world parallel to that of historical chronology.''

It should be noted that the ''Stella Díaz Varín'' Fund - created in honor of the outstanding avant-garde poet from Serena - seeks to distinguish emerging and established writers through the publication of their works, in addition to recognizing their work through a monetary incentive. .