Marta Lopes Santos
doing things with words, publishing Sleepy Press

Marta Lopes Santos
martalopessantos@proton.me

writing2026 A Ruina é uma Cauda [a text for Sancha Meca Castro's performance A Ruin is a Tail] ~ Jornal Coreia2025 To Anne Boyer ~ Sleepy Press: Letters of No2025 a theory that explains everything ~ Bog Bodies Press: mnemotope 0082025 As if Writing was not Dreaming ~ Soapbox Journal: On the Uses of Absence2025 Confirmation Shoes ~ Sleepy Press: Anger Issue2024 Rest and the Refusal of Plot ~ Pala Press, Issue 6: Caesura2024 Dust and Dusting: A Woman's Work is Never Done ~ Soapbox Journal (web)2023 I fear the end of things (documentary short film), screenplay co-written with Nicole Noia ~ selected for Porto/Post/Doc 2023 and Porto Femme 2024publishingworkshopsother experimentsacademic researchreadings

Marta Lopes Santos
martalopessantos@proton.me

writingpublishingSleepy Press is an experimental publishing project I co-run with Lucia Holásková:2026 Hospitality Playbook ~ co-edited with Lucia Holásková and Fern Ling Chettle2026 Scent is Present ~ co-edited with Lucia Holásková and Michaela Cagáňová2025 Letters of No ~ co-edited with Lucia Holásková2025 Anger Issue ~ co-edited with Lucia Holáskováworkshopsother experimentsacademic researchreadings

Marta Lopes Santos
martalopessantos@proton.me

writingpublishingworkshops2026 Reading Group: Renee Gladman’s Ravicka Novels
Organised and conducted as Sleepy Press in four sessions over the Spring of 2026. Hosted at OUTLINE in Amsterdam.2025 Dreaming Together: A Collaborative Writing Workshop
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.2025 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.other experimentsacademic researchreadings

Marta Lopes Santos
martalopessantos@proton.me

writingpublishingworkshopsother experiments2026 Sleepy Press' Letters of No ~ installation commissioned for the exhibition I Still Wonder at Strata Modul, Bucharest, Romania, November 2025 - February 20262025 Forty-Six Trembles of Anger I Have Read ~ quotation collage in Sleepy Press: Anger Issueacademic researchreadings

Marta Lopes Santos
martalopessantos@proton.me

writingpublishingworkshopsother experimentsacademic research2024 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”2023 Nostalgic and Precarious: The Affective Power of Objects in Olga Ravn’s The Employees (2018), Literature & Aesthetics, vol. 33 no. 2 (2023)readings

Marta Lopes Santos
martalopessantos@proton.me

writingpublishingworkshopsother experimentsacademic researchreadings2025 Transatlantic Voices, workshop poetry reading
Perdu Bookshop, Amsterdam2025 Soapbox 6.0: On the Uses of Absence launch
De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam

Marta Lopes Santos
martalopessantos@proton.me

writingworkshopspublishingother experimentsacademic researchreadings~currently thinkingthe body ~ (literary) time ~ healing (& its refusal) ~ memory ~ chronology (& its refusal) ~ (literary) space ~ performativity ~ writing as dreaming ~ language (& its failures) ~ gesture ~ work (& its refusal)