18:00-19:00 VIDEO READINGS (4) John Trefry, Zak Ferguson, Rick Harsch, Péter Závada
Sunday 27 October 2024
John Trefry, Zak Ferguson, Rick Harsch, Péter Závada
Zak Ferguson
Zak Ferguson is an autistic experimental filmmaker, author, composer, collage artist, publisher, and all-around nut job who lives in the seaside town of Brighton, UK,
Peter Závada
Péter Závada is the author of the poetry collection Wreck in Lee (2017), for which he won the Horváth Péter Literary Scholarship, in addition to four other books of poetry. He is also a recipient of the Örkény István Playwriting Scholarship (2016), the Móricz Zsigmond Literary Scholarship (2017), and the Cogito Prize for Young Philosophers (2023). Several of his plays have been produced to acclaim in Budapest, Nyitra, and Dresden, and The Kertész Street Shaxpeare Carwash won the Critic’s Choice Award for the best Hungarian theatre production of the year in 2021. In 2019 he participated in the Rotterdam Poetry International Festival, and in 2024 he was a fellow in the IWP (International Writers Program) at the University of Iowa. He currently holds a full-time position as a senior lecturer in the Eötvös Loránd University Department of Aesthetics.
Rick Harsch
Rick Harsch fled the United States in 2001, landing in Slovenia for no important reason. He is a
writer, author of maybe two works that might be familiar to a small number of readers: The Driftless
Trilogy, reprinted by the press he started in Izola, Slovenia, corona\samizdat, and The Manifold
Destiny of Eddie Vegas, now published by Zerogram Press.
John Trefry
John Trefry is an architect in Lawrence, Kansas, United States where he also edits Inside the Castle, a small press for literature in the expanded field. After receiving his architectural education, he practiced architecture with Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects for 13 years and has been teaching architecture at the University of Kansas for 8 years. He has written three novels, Plats, Apparitions of the Living, and Massive (published this year), and a caprice, Thy Decay Thou Seest By Thy Desire.