Marta Lopes Santos
hi.martadossantos@gmail.comYou can find some of my recent writing and other projects here. I also keep a newsletter where I irregularly write about books and my research on labour, dreams, futures, collectivities, rest and refusals.Recently, I co-founded the publishing project Sleepy Press. Our first issue is on the theme of Anger.I am also available for freelance work, as a writer, editor and translator (Portuguese <> English) and in communications, production and project management.Writing & Other Projects
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Marta Lopes Santos
hi.martadossantos@gmail.comEssays
As if Writing was not Dreaming, Soapbox Journal: On the Uses of Absence (print), May 2025Rest 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 2024Film
I fear the end of things (doc.), screenplay co-written with Nicole Noia, 2023 | Selected for Porto/Post/Doc 2023 and Porto Femme 2024
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.Publications
Anger Issue, edited with Lucia Holásková, Sleepy Press, 2025Letters of No, edited with Lucia Holásková, Sleepy Press, forthcomingAcademic 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”Homepage
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Marta Lopes Santos
hi.martadossantos@gmail.comWork 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 hereHomepage
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