Photos #1, #2, #4 & #6 courtesy of Jordan Bryant.
PANELLISTS
Clément Ribes is a writer and editor at Éditions Gallimard, where he is director of the Scribes collection, publishing original French writing as well as works in translation by the likes of Kaveh Akbar, Federico Falco, and Carlos Fonseca. His debut novel MILLE IMAGES DE JÉRÉMIE was recently published by Éditions Verticales and has been long-listed for the Prix de Medicis and the Prix des Inrocks, catégorie Premier Roman. Twitter: @clement_ribes
Serene Richards is a Lecturer in law at New York University London, and affiliated researcher at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, France. Earlier this year, she published BIOPOLITICS AS A SYSTEM OF THOUGHT with Bloomsbury. Twitter: @noklesis
Ryan Ruby is the author of the novel THE ZERO & THE ONE (Twelve Books), and some of the most vital contemporary criticism in venues such as Liberties Magazine, New Left Review, n+1, The Point, Poetry and elsewhere. His book-length poem CONTEXT COLLAPSE, in which he offers a history of poetry itself, will be published by 7 Stories Press in November this year. Twitter: @_ryanruby_
Fernando Sdrigotti is an Argentine writer and cultural critic. He is the author of several books and pamphlets, including SHITSTORM (Open Pen), GREY TROPIC (Dostoyevsky Wannabe), JOLTS (Influx Press), & WE ARE BUT NOTHING (Rough Trade Books). A new story collection A FOREIGN COUNTRY IS THE PAST will be published with Influx Press in 2025. He founded Minor Literature[s] in 2013, and edited it until 2023. Substack: The Leftovers
MODERATOR
Ben Libman is a writer, translator and critic whose work has appeared in such venues as The New York Times, Poetry Magazine, New Left Review, The London Magazine and LARB. In 2023, he translated Gisèle Sapiro’s THE SOCIOLOGY OF LITERATURE. His first book, THE THIRD SOLITUDE is forthcoming from Dundurn Press. Twitter: @benlibman
READERS
Brigitte de Valk‘s fiction has been published by Crannóg Magazine, Sans. Press, Happy London Press, Aurelia Magazine, Polyester Zine, Reflex Press & Lunate. She she won the Cúirt New Writing Prize in 2020, and the Royal Holloway Art Writing Competition in 2014. Twitter: @BrigitteCrossdV
Ellen Dillon is a writer and teacher from Limerick, Ireland. Her latest books are FARE THEE WELL, MISS CAROUSEL (Haverthorn Press) and TENTATIVES (Pamenar Press). Previous books look at Irish history from the perspective of butter (BUTTER INTERVENTION; Veer 2, 2022), the teaching life of Stéphane Mallarmé (MORSEL MAY SLEEP, Sublunary Editions), and Stephen Malkmus’s guitar (SONNETS TO MALKMUS, Sad Press). Twitter: @altkreb
Andrea Mason is a London-based writer & artist. Her fiction pamphlet Waste Extractions, was published in 2022 with Broken Sleep Books. She won the Aleph Writing Prize, 2020, & was shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize, 2020, & the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize, 2018. Online and journal publications include 3AM Magazine, UEA New Writing, Failed States, Tar Press, Happy Hypocrite and Sublunary Editions. Twitter: @Andrea__Mason
Alexander Booth lives in Berlin. His recent translations include books by Friederike Mayröcker, Alexander Kluge, Gerhard Rühm, and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. His collection of poems Triptych was published in 2021 and Kantor in 2023. Website: WORDKUNST
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