Marta Lopes Santos
hi.martadossantos@gmail.comI currently live in Amsterdam, where I studied for a masters in Literary Studies (research).You can find some of my recent writing 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), forthcoming 2025
- Rest and the Refusal of Plot, Pala Press, Issue 6: Caesura, January 2024
- Dust 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
Workshop
- 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/ are taking place at No Other Option, in Amsterdam, and Pollen Studio Belfast.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”Homepage
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Marta Lopes Santos
hi.martadossantos@gmail.comWork Experience
2022 - 2025 Writer / Editor / Translator / Producer; Freelancer
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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