Marta Lopes Santos
martalopessantos@proton.me
Marta Lopes Santos
martalopessantos@proton.me
Writing
A Ruina é uma Cauda [a text for Sancha Meca Castro's performance A Ruin is a Tail], Jornal Coreia, 2026To Anne Boyer, Sleepy Press: Letters of No, November 2025a 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
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
Marta Lopes Santos
martalopessantos@proton.me
Workshops
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 in 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.
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.
Marta Lopes Santos
martalopessantos@proton.me
I am available for freelance work, as a writer, editor and translator (Portuguese <> English) and in communications, production and project management.Work Experience
2022 - present 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 Advertising
Education
2024 Literary Studies; Research Master; University of Amsterdam
2017 Management; Bachelor; City, University of LondonAcademic 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”
Marta Lopes Santos
martalopessantos@proton.me
Sleepy Press is an experimental publishing project I co-run with Lucia Holásková.Publications
Anger Issue, co-edited with Lucia Holásková, 2025Letters of No, co-edited with Lucia Holásková, 2025Scent is Present, co-edited with Lucia Holásková and Michaela Cagáňová, May 2026Hospitality Playbook, co-edited with Lucia Holásková and Fern Ling Chettle, June 2026Group Exhibition
Letters of No, installation, featured in I Still Wonder at Strata Modul, Bucharest, Romania, November 2025 - February 2026
Workshop
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.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.follow us here
Marta Lopes Santos
martalopessantos@proton.me
Readings
Transatlantic Voices, workshop poetry reading
Perdu Bookshop, Amsterdam, December 2025Soapbox 6.0: On the Uses of Absence launch
De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam, June 2025Grants
Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, funding for Sleepy Press’ Hospitality Playbook, 2025het cultuurfonds, research and development for The Speculum: A Private & Public History (in development), 2025
Residency
Winter Writing Residency; Taidetila Muijala (FI), January 2026