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Barbara Delać (1994, Kotor) has published three books of poetry: Strahovita nježnost (eng. Dreadful Tenderness; Platforma knjiga, 2025), Gdje smo ovo, pričaj mi (eng. Tell Me Where We Are; OKF, 2020) and Tomorrowland (Narodno pozorište Timočke krajine – Centar za kulturu Zoran Radmilović: Festival mladih pesnika, 2018; Nova knjiga, 2019). She is a laureate of the Festival of Young Poets (Zaječar, 2017) and a winner of the Branko Award (Novi Sad, 2018). She is a recipient of the Berlin-Stipendium residency, awarded by the Academy of Arts (Berlin, 2019), the Reading Balkans residency (Pristina, 2021), and the writers’ residency of the Croatian PEN Centre (Zagreb, 2025). She has also won the Montenegrin National Theatre’s best play award (Crnogorsko narodno pozorište; Podgorica, 2025). She has published a poetry-and-music album titled Tell Me Where We Are as an audiobook with the singer-songwriter Sara Renar. It can be listened to through the Book & Zvook application. Her poetry has been translated into multiple languages.

2015

Jana Radičević (1997, Podgorica) has published two books of poetry: ako kažem može postati istina (eng. if said, it can become the truth; Partizanska knjiga, 2019), and a long poem zona neutralnog pritiska (eng. zone of neutral pressure; Partizanska knjiga, 2022), which was translated into German under the title zone des neutralen druckes (Edition Thanhäuser, 2022) and into Spanish under the title zona de presión neutral (Efímera Editorial, 2025). She graduated in German studies from the Faculty of Philology in Nikšić and, as an exchange student, also resided at the universities in Marburg and Graz. She obtained an MA degree from the University of Würzburg in Germany. She is the youngest recipient of the Writer of the City of Graz literature scholarship, which she was awarded in 2020/21. Her poetry has been translated into multiple languages.

2015

Luka Boljević (1994, Podgorica) has published a book of poetry Meso jezika (eng. The flesh of the tongue; Narodno pozorište Timočke krajine – Centar za kulturu Zoran Radmilović: Festival mladih pesnika, 2020; OKF, 2022). He is a law graduate. His poetry has been published in numerous anthologies and literary magazines, including: Povelja, Beogradski književni časopis, ARS and Vesna. He was selected for translation into German at the competition and project Time with(out) Utopia. Network of Young Writers, a project supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and published in the Austrian magazine Lichtungen, as well as in the anthology Nouvelle poésie BCMS, published by Slavitude (Paris, 2021), in which his poem, translated into French, was published.

2015

Nikola Ćorac (1991, Podgorica) has published a book of poetry Niko nas nije upozorio (eng. We Weren’t Warned; OKF, 2020). He is a student at the Department of Montenegrin Language and South Slavic Literature at the Faculty of Philology in Nikšić. He also studied South Slavic Studies as an exchange student at the University of Graz in Austria. His poems have been published in many anthologies and magazines, including Lichtungen, ARS, Poezija and Povelja. He was one of the finalists of the 33rd Festival of Young Poets in Zaječar and the 49th Ratković Poetry Evenings in Bijelo Polje, where he won the third prize for poetry. His poetry has been translated into German, French, English and Greek.

2015

Nataša Gudelj (1997, Trebinje) has published a book of poetry Heterotopija (Heterotopia; RVP, 2022). She is a winner of several awards, among them: Ratković Poetry Evenings 2021, Sremčevi dani – Bal u Elemiru 2021, Ulaznica 2019, and she was a finalist in several literary competitions, including: Festival of Young Poets in Zaječar and Mladi Dis. Her poetry has been published in numerous anthologies and literary magazines, including: Rukopisi (40, 41, 42, 43), ARS, Vesna, and can also be found in the selection of the Podgorica Art Festival competition (2019). Her poetry has been translated into French, Italian and Greek.

2015

Milena Radević (1998, Podgorica) has published a book of poetry Ekspres lonac (eng. A Pressure Cooker; OKF, 2023). She graduated in French Language and Literature from the Faculty of Philology in Nikšić and is currently an MA student of journalism. She is a winner of two third prizes in the competition for young poets at the Ratković Poetry Evenings, one at the 50th edition and another at the 51st edition. She was a finalist in the competition for the first book of poetry of the Belgrade Poetry and Book Festival Trgni se! Poezija by the publishing house Treći Trg from Belgrade for the year 2022, as well as in the competition of the 3rd ZaNa Literature Festival for the year 2023. Together with the musician Lazar Mijanović, she created a poetry-and-music performance titled Dobra ideja (eng. A good idea, 2025). Her poems have been published in numerous collections, anthologies, and literary magazines, including ARS, Fragment, Libartes, Lichtungen, Nouvelle poésie BCMS, Sent, and Rukopisi (43, 45, 46). Her poetry has been translated into German, French, Polish, Greek, Albanian, and English.

2015

Marko Stanojkovski (1998, Podgorica) has published a book of poetry Djeca uličnih prolaza (eng. Children of the Alleyways; Platforma knjiga, 2025). He graduated in English Language and Literature from the Faculty of Philology in Nikšić. He is currently an MA student of the Literary Programme of the Department for English Language and Literature at the University of Sarajevo. He was one of the finalists of the 47th Ratković Poetry Evenings in Bijelo Polje. His poetry was also shortlisted for the Treći Trg 2018 competition for the first book of poetry. His poetry has been published in collections of works of the Young Writers Forum, the Rukopisi (41 and 48) collections, and the literary magazines Script, Tema, Odzivi, and Ars. One of his poems was also translated into French and included in the collection Nouvelle poésie BCMS 2, published by Slavitude (Paris, 2023).

2015

Sofija Drakuović (2002, Podgorica) is a student of Serbian Language and South-Slavic Literatures at the Faculty of Philology in Nikšić. She won second prize for the best poetry collection at the Slovo Gorčina festival in Stolac in 2024. She was also a finalist in the poetry competition at the Ratković Poetry Evenings the same year. Her poetry has been published in the literary magazine Glasnik and in the electronic magazines Strane.ba, Bludni stih and Astronaut.ba, as well as in multiple collections of works of the Young Writers Forum.

2020

Marija Ivanović (2002, Berane) is a student of Serbian Language and South-Slavic Literatures at the Faculty of Philology in Nikšić. She won the Radule Željko Damjanović award for the best unpublished poetry collection with her manuscript titled Stranac u Alpima (engl. A Stranger in the Alps). Her poem Exillium was one of the winning poems at the competition Pisanje uz Tanane, and it was published in the anthology Tanane Revolucije (Kontrast, 2023). Her poetry has also been published on Astronaut. ba, an online portal for literature and culture, as well as in multiple collections of works of the Young Writers Forum.

2020

Ognjen Jovanović (2007, Podgorica) is a final-year student of the mathematics programme at the Gymnasium Slobodan Škerović. His poetry was shortlisted for the 53rd edition of the Limske večeri poezije festival. His poetry and short prose were published in the ninth and tenth collections of works of the Young Writers Forum.

2020

Marija Vujošević (1995, Podgorica) is the author of the poetry book Igra makazama (eng. Playing with Scissors; Treći Trg, 2021), which was awarded in the regional competition for the first book organized by Treći Trg and the Belgrade Festival of Poetry and Book, and was shortlisted for the award Dušan Vasiljev for the year 2021. She obtained a master’s degree in psychology from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade. She has been writing and performing poetry since 2015. Her poems have been published in regional web portals, as well as in the collections of works Nouvelle poésie BCMS and Spoken Word RS. She engages in dancing improvisation and poetry performance, and manifests her visual expression through drawing, painting, collaging.

2024

Anđela Laković (2003, Podgorica) graduated in Applied Psychology from the University of Donja Gorica. She is currently an MA student of clinical, social, and intercultural psychology at the University of Padova. Her poem Spremaju me za tržište (Eng. They are Preparing Me for the Market) was included in the collection 100 najboljih pesama 2024-2025 within the regional competition Librum studio. Her poetry was published in the eleventh collection of works of the Young Writers Forum.

2025

Sergej Pavlović (2000, Podgorica) obtained an MA in Dramaturgy from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Cetinje. In 2021, he was one of the finalists of the literary competition Tvoja reč with the novella Što te užasno volim, najdraže od svih (eng. As I So Terribly Love You, Above Any Other; Bookmate, 2022). He also writes in English, and his short prose has been published in the American magazines Eternal Haunted Summer and The Fairy Tale Magazine, in a horror story anthology by Snake Bite Books, and in the collection Rukopisi 48. He participated in the production of the play Predmet Medeja (eng. The Medea Case; directed by Diego de Brea; dramaturgy by Kata Gyarmati) at the Montenegrin National Theater as the dramaturgy assistant. He also adapted the play Princesa Ksenija (eng. Princess Ksenija) for the blind and visually impaired audience within the project Pozorište za sve. As a drama critic, he reported on the competition programme of the FIAT festival on the Portal Analitika in 2024 and 2025.

2025

Coordinator of the Young Writers Forum in the Culture Information Center Budo Tomović in Podgorica

Valentina Knežević (1978, Podgorica) acquired a degree in World literature and literary theory from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology. She worked as a cultural journalist for several Montenegrin media: the daily newspapers Publika, Radio 98 and Radio Television of Montenegro. Since 2012 she has been an editor of the literature program in the Culture Information Center Budo Tomović in Podgorica. She coordinates the work of the Forum of Young Writers community, whose members have been assembling since 2015. She is editor-in-chief of an annual literary festival LiTeritorija, founded in 2016.

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