D. Harlan Wilson

D. Harlan Wilson is an award-winning American novelist, scholar, playwright, editor, and college professor, with over 30 book-length works of fiction and nonfiction to his name. Hundreds of his stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in magazines, journals, and anthologies across the world in multiple languages. Wilson serves as reviews editor for the academic journal Extrapolation, and he is editor-in-chief of the avant-garde publisher Anti-Oedipus Press. He is also the co-host of the Dickheads Podcast, devoted to the life and writing of Philip K. Dick.

David’s Sister

David's Sister is a Prague-based sound project by Tyko Say and Sandra Pasławska inspired by midnight corner store culture, making out in taxis, downtown wigs, the 96, s sebou to go, flowerpot falling from bitch's ledge, out of-tune storytelling, and how it feels to do all of that all the time at the same time. 

Emanuel Cameira

Emanuel Cameira (Lisbon, 1982). Sociologist, he is a Guest Professor at ESCS (School of Communication and Media Studies – Lisbon Polytechnic) and ISCTE (University Institute of Lisbon). He created the publishing house Barco Bêbado (Drunk Boat) in 2020, where, to date, he has published works by António Cabrita, Bob Kaufman, Carlo Levi, Christian Bobin, Critical Art Ensemble, David Wojnarowicz, Eduarda Neves, Eric Walker, Gianfranco Sanguinetti, Gilles Deleuze, Gilles Ivain, Gregory Corso, Guy Debord, Harmony Korine, Herbert Huncke, Katerina Gógou, Louis Armand, Michael Mc Aloran, Melchior Vischer, Miyó Vestrini, Mustapha Khayati, Osvaldo Lamborghini, Paulo da Costa Domingos, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Rene Ricard, Rui Baião, Sean Bonney, Sergio Solmi, Victor Chklovski, Vitor Silva Tavares, William S. Burroughs, among others. Publisher’s motto: cuspo fraternalmente em vós (I spit on you fraternally – a verse by the Portuguese poet José Manuel Pressler).

Gary Shipley

Gary J. Shipley is the author of numerous books, including The House Inside the House of Gregor Schneider (Cloak), So Beautiful and Elastic (Apocalypse Party), Bright Stupid Confetti (11:11 Press), 30 Fake Beheadings (Spork), You With Your Memory Are Dead (Inside the Castle) and Warewolff! (Hexus). His monograph on Baudrillard, Stratagem of the Corpse, is available from Anthem Press and Cambridge Core. He has been published in many literary magazines, anthologies and academic journals. More information can be found at Thek Prosthetics.

Jared Marcel Pollen

Jared Marcel Pollen is the author of The Unified Field of Loneliness: Stories (2019) and the novel Venus&Document (2022). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in, The New Republic, The Nation, Gawker, Liberties, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Jacobin, The Yale Review and Astra. He currently lives in Prague. 

Kenji Siratori

Kenji Siratori is a Japanese glitch writer and a prominent figure in cybercult literature. His style combines elements of cyberpunk and experimental literature, heavily influenced by network society and digital technology. Siratori began his writing career on the Internet and his works have been published on various online platforms and websites. His style employs glitch art techniques to interweave literary text, chopping up words and structure, creating a unique spirit and delirium that appeals to the sensory perceptions of digital natives. Siratori's works are characterized by distorted letters and images, remaining unstable yet creating an enchanting and enigmatic world. His novels and essays reveal themes related to the complex relationships between computers and humans, the fusion of technology and the body, and other themes of modern society. Siratori's glitch literature has had a wide influence not only in Japan but also on artists and literature lovers around the world. His works not only set a new direction in cyberculture literature, but also make extensive use of glitch as a means of expression, making him a pioneer in the field of literary glitch. Kenji Siratori is recognised as a distinguished glitch writer who brings a new perspective to the contemporary literary scene and strongly influences the expression of the digital age. His works combine the philosophy of glitch art and the spirit of cyberpunk, bringing insights into the future.

Lyuba Yakimchuk

Ukrainian writer Lyuba Yakimchuk was born in 1985 in Pervomaisk, Luhansk region, and currently resides in Kyiv, Ukraine. 

She is the author of several full-length poetry collections, including Apricots of Donbas, which sheds light on people's experiences in war-torn regions. She has earned several prestigious awards, including the International Slavic Poetic Award. The book was listed in Forbes magazine, Ukraine's Top 10 books about the war, and published in Ukrainian, English, French, Swedish, Polish, and Estonian.  Her writing has been translated into more than twenty languages. At the 2022 Grammy Awards, she performed her poem “Prayer” in English as part of John Legend’s performance of his song “Free.” Her book, Apricots of Donbas, has been recorded in French by Catherine Deneuve and the audiobook is set to be released in early 2024 by Edition des Fames in Paris.

In addition, she was named among the one hundred most influential people in the arts in Ukraine by Kyiv's New Time magazine (2015).

Michaela Králiková

Michaela Králiková is a dancer and performer working mainly in the field of contemporary dance and improvisation. She is a guest artist at the international theater studio Farm in the Cave in Prague which focuses on physical theater and multimedia theater forms. She studied dance at the Private Dance Conservatory in Košice (SK) and Art Factory International in Bologna (IT). She is a part of various contemporary dance performances, site-specific events and installations (her ongoing project: Lepetit, Little Prince by Credance company; Just Ask Her choreographed by Rado Piovarči, Deep Breath choreographed by Stanislava Vlčeková). She is an author of the movement research Sign Dance Project. The research was aimed to use Slovak sign language as a tool for creating new dance vocabulary that carries the symbolic at its abstract form. She was a former member of The Slovak State Traditional Dance Company in Bratislava (SK).

Mother Criminal

Mother Criminal is a Prague-based DJ, promoter, director, editor, and founder of Bukolika, the annual DIY forest mania, temporary utopia, collective art body and promoting team. After years spent with writing and literary studies at Charles University in Prague, Mother Criminal, the alias of Tomáš Suchánek, finally anchored his passion for art in cinema. He debuted with an experimental film Dead Metaphor (2018) and, after a brief encounter with FAMU, started co-writing and co-directing shows, commercials and documentaries for Czech TV. At the moment, he works as a director, editor and curator of self-promotion videos for Prima TV. In his oeuvre, he focuses on the psychological, oneiric and mysterious. His latest independent works include music videos for Dmitrievna's track "Logika" (2020), Josefina Dusk's "Shuffle to the Traffic Sound" (2022) or soon to be released OGmiaG's “Inner Demons” (2023). Apart from his cinematic adventures, he also performs as a DJ. His idea of an ideal mix is this: to follow the trajectory of a missile cutting space and time from obese bass to razor-sharp breaks that hit hard and leave a crater in the echo.

Pam Brown

Pam Brown has been writing, collaborating, editing and publishing in diverse modes for five decades. Her recent publications are Stasis Shuffle (Hunter Publishers, 2021) and A Love Supreme (now orries press, 2022). Pam lives in Australia on reclaimed swampland in south Sydney on Gadigal country.

Radosław Jurczak 

Radosław Jurczak (born 1995) is a poet, philosopher and mathematician based in Warsaw, Poland. Author of two books of poetry – Pamięć zewnętrzna [External Memory, 2016] and Zakłady holenderskie [Dutch Books, 2020] – he has received, among others, the Warsaw Literary Award, the Silesius Poetry Award,  Bierezin Award and the Iłłakowiczówna Award. His work has been translated into English, Hungarian and Russian; English translations of his poems were featured by the Versopolis Project. He is a senior editor for “KONTENT”, a journal of contemporary poetry and poetry criticism. In his poems, he blends political and ethical engagement with a genuine interest in the language and worldview of modern science and inspirations drawn from the rich historical tradition of literary forms.

Sandra Pasławska

Sandra Pasławska, hailing from Poland (PL), living in Czechia(CZK) wears many creative hats. She's a performer, an integral member of David's Sister, holds the position of performance director at OBJECT:PARADISE, and contributes as an editor for KROTCH magazine. Her performances are a captivating fusion of intuition, interdisciplinarity, and transgression, all served with a strong dose of punk and feminism, among other elements.

Svitlana Matviyenko

Svitlana Matviyenko is Associate Professor of Critical Media Analysis in the School of Communication of Simon Fraser University and Associate Director of the Digital Democracies Institute in Vancouver, Canada. Her research and teaching are focused on information and cyberwar, media and environment, infrastructure studies, and history of science. Recently she writes about the Soviet and the post-Soviet techno-politics, nuclear cultures, nuclear colonialism, and weaponization of energy infrastructure, focusing on the Chornobyl and Zhaporizhzhia NPPs, during the Russia-Ukraine War. She is a co-editor of two collections, The Imaginary App (MIT Press, 2014) and Lacan and the Posthuman (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and a co-author of Cyberwar and Revolution: Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism (Minnesota UP, 2019), a winner of the 2019 book award of the Science Technology and Art in International Relations (STAIR) section of the International Studies Association and of the Canadian Communication Association 2020 Gertrude J. Robinson book prize.

Trevor Joyce

Trevor Joyce is an Irish poet, currently living in Cork. His latest book is Conspiracy (Veer2, England; 2023).

Vik Shirley

Vik Shirley is a poet, writer, editor, academic and critic from Bristol, England, now living in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her collection, The Continued Closure of the Blue Door (HVTN), her pamphlets, Corpses (Sublunary Editions), Grotesquerie for the Apocalypse (Beir Bua) and Poets (The Red Ceilings Press), and her book of photo-poetry Disrupted Blue and other poems on Polaroid (Hesterglock) were all published 2020-2022. Her work has appeared in such places as Poetry London, The Rialto, Magma, 3am Magazine, Tentacular, Perverse, Shearsman and Tears in the Fence. A Poetry School tutor, teaching on the Surreal Narrative and the Grotesque in Poetry, she has a PhD in Dark Humour and the Surreal from the University of Birmingham. A regular performer at the European Poetry Festival, Vik is Associate Editor of Sublunary Editions and editor of Surreal-Absurd for Mercurius magazine.