In Madagascar, writers are almost always also journalists or even founders of press titles. As such, they write texts belonging to different genres. Literary creation, which often consists of poetry published under a pseudonym, is given a central place in the periodicals they publish. However, the wide circulation of these texts, if immediate, does not necessarily guarantee the recognition of their work. The aim of this paper is to show how the twin career of many writers is dependent on the press and how sole publishing in the press, often ephemeral as a medium, today represents an obstacle to tracing many of the writers’ trajectories, thus complicating Madagascar’s literary history.