Marta Lopes Santos
martalopessantos@proton.me

Writing
To Anne Boyer, Sleepy Press: Letters of No, forthcominga theory that explains everything, Bog Bodies Press: mnemotope 008, October 2025As if Writing was not Dreaming, Soapbox Journal: On the Uses of Absence, May 2025Confirmation Shoes, Sleepy Press: Anger Issue, February 2025

Rest and the Refusal of Plot, Pala Press, Issue 6: Caesura, January 2024Dust and Dusting: A Woman's Work is Never Done, Soapbox Journal (web), January 2024

Other Experiments
Forty-Six Trembles of Anger I Have Read, quotation collage in Sleepy Press: Anger Issue, February 2025

Academic Research
Nostalgic and Precarious: The Affective Power of Objects in Olga Ravn’s The Employees (2018), Literature & Aesthetics, vol. 33 no. 2 (2023)Rest as Resistance in Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018), presented as part of the “Dear Reader…” panel at the ASCA 2024 Workshop on “Resistance, Refusal, Fugitivity”

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Workshops
Dreaming Together: A Collaborative Writing Workshop (ongoing). More information about the ideas behind the workshop can be found here. Some of the pieces that came from its first edition have been published in the Nocturnalities Rest Archive. Other sessions took place at No Other Option, in Amsterdam, and online at Pollen Studio Belfast.Scent is Present. Olfactory writing workshop conducted as a collaboration between Sleepy Press and holo-collective. In dialogue with holo's exhibition "AUTOCHORA", for which they developed five scents representing five different stages of the life cycle. Workshop participants were invited to write from the individual scents. The workshop took place at Petrohradská Kolektiv in Prague, Czechia, in July 2025.

Film
I fear the end of things (doc.), screenplay co-written with Nicole Noia, 2023 | Selected for Porto/Post/Doc 2023 and Porto Femme 2024

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Marta Lopes Santos
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I am available for freelance work, as a writer, editor and translator (Portuguese <> English) and in communications, production and project management.Work Experience
2022 - 2025 Writer / Editor / Translator / Producer; Freelancer
2025 Head of Communications; Palestinian Film Festival Amsterdam
2021 Marketing and Communications Manager; IndieLisboa - International Film Festival
2019 - 2020 Editorial Producer & Studio Manager; Canal180
2018 - 2019 Commercial Events & Marketing; Museum of Brands, Packaging and AdvertisingEducation
2024 Literary Studies; Research Master; University of Amsterdam
2020 Creative Writing; Short Course; Goldsmiths University of London
2017 Management; Bachelor; City, University of Londonmore info here

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Sleepy Press is an experimental publishing project I co-founded and run with Lucia Holásková.Publications
Anger Issue, co-edited with Lucia Holásková, 2025Letters of No, co-edited with Lucia Holásková, forthcomingWorkshop
Scent is Present. Olfactory writing workshop conducted as a collaboration between Sleepy Press and holo-collective. In dialogue with holo's exhibition "AUTOCHORA", for which they developed five scents representing five different stages of the life cycle. Workshop participants were invited to write from the individual scents. The workshop took place at Petrohradská Kolektiv in Prague, Czechia, in July 2025.Group Exhibition
Letters of No, the installation, featured in I Still Wonder at Strata Modul, Bucharest, Romania, November 2025 - February 2026follow us here

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