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Barbara Delać (1994, Kotor) has published two books of poetry: Tomorrowland (Narodno pozorište Timočke krajine – Centar za kulturu Zoran Radmilović: Festival mladih pesnika, 2018; Nova knjiga, 2019) and Gdje smo ovo, pričaj mi (eng. Where are we, talk to me; OKF, 2020). She is a laureate of the Festival of Young Poets (Zaječar, 2017), a winner of Brankova nagrada (Novi Sad, 2018), as well as of residential scholarship Berlin-Stipendium, awarded by the Academy of Arts (Berlin, 2019) and Reading Balkans (Priština). During her residency in Berlin, she wrote the poem Gdje smo ovo, pričaj mi, which also had its premiere in Berlin, where it was performed in collaboration with the singer-songwriter Sara Renar. This experimental and interdisciplinary material was published in 2023 by the Book & Zvook publishing house in the form of an audiobook and it can be listened to using their application. Her poetry has been translated into German, Albanian, French, Slovenian, Polish, Greek and Italian.

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 has been translated into German under the title zone des neutralen druckes (Edition Thanhäuser, 2022). She graduated in German studies at the Faculty of Philology in Nikšić, and as an exchange student she also resided at the universities in Marburg and Graz. She obtained an MA degree at the University of Würzburg. She is the youngest holder of the literature scholarship Writer of the City of Graz for 2020/21. Her poetry was translated into German, English, French, Italian, Macedonian, Albanian, Russian, Slovenian and Greek.

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 Master student in Digital Economy at the University of Economics in Vienna. 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) is the author of a poetry book titled Ekspres lonac (eng. A Pressure Cooker; OKF, 2023). She graduated in French Language and Literature at the Faculty of Philology in Nikšić and is currently an MA student of journalism. She won two third-place prizes at the competition for young poets at the Ratković Poetry Evenings, at its 50th and 51st editions. She was a finalist in the competition for the first book of poetry at the festival Trgni se! Poezija by Publisher Treći Trg from Belgrade for the year 2022, as well as at the competition of the 3rd ZaNa Literature Festival for the year 2023. Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies and literary magazines, with ARS, Fragment, Libartes, Lichtungen, Nouvelle poésie BCMS, and Rukopisi (43, 45, 46) being among them. Her poetry has been translated into German, French, Greek, Albanian and English.

2015

Marko Stanojkovski (1998, Podgorica) graduated in English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Philology in Nikšić. He is currently an MA student in the literary program 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. He was shortlisted for the Treći Trg 2018 competition for the first book of poetry. His poetry has been published in the collections of works of the Young Writer’s Forum, in the anthology Rukopisi 41, in the literary magazines ARS and Script, as well as in the collection Nouvelle poésie BCMS, published by Slavitude (Paris, 2023), where a translation of a poem of his into French was published.

2015

Stefanija Brčić (2001, Beograd) is a student at the Faculty of Medicine in Podgorica. She was a finalist of the 28th poetry competition Desanka Maksimović in Valjevo. Her poetry was published in the online magazine of the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš, in the book Sto mladih talenata grada Beograda (eng. A Hundred Young Talents of the City of Belgrade) (2013), as well as on the platform bludni stih. Since 2022, she has been a member of the Young Writer’s Forum.

2022

Marija Ivanović (2002, Berane) is a student of Serbian language and literature and the Faculty of Philology in Nikšić. She is a winner of the Radule Željko Damjanović award for the best unpublished poetry collection titled Stranac u Alpima. Her poem Exillium was one of the winning poems at this year’s Pisanje uz Tanane competition and it was published in the anthology Tanane Revolucije (Kontrast, 2023). Her poetry has also been published on an online portal for literature and culture titled Astronaut, as well as in the ninth collection of works of the Young Writers Forum.

2020

Sofija Drakuović (2002, Podgorica) is a student of the Faculty of Philology in Nikšić, at the Department of Serbian Language and South Slavic Literatures. She is a winner of the second prize for the best poetry collection at the Slovo Gorčina festival in Stolac. Her poetry has been published in the electronic journals Strane, Bludni stih and Astronaut, as well as in the ninth collection of works of the Young Writers Forum.

2020

Ljeposava Laketić (1996, Nikšić) is a teacher of the German language. She obtained an MA degree in German language and literature at the University of Montenegro, and, as an exchange student, resided at the University of Vienna, the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken, at the Humboldt University of Berlin and at the Herder-Institute at Leipzig. She teaches German at the school for foreign languages Don Bosco in Podgorica, as well as online for the LTG Academy of Geneva. Her poetry has been published in the ninth collection of works of the Young Writers Forum.

2020

Julija Mijušković (2005, Podgorica) is a final year student of the Gymnasium “Slobodan Škerović”. Her poetry has been published in the ninth collection of works of the Young Writers Forum.

2020

Ognjen Jovanović (2007, Podgorica) is a second grade student in the mathematics program of the Gymnasium “Slobodan Škerović”. His poetry has been published in the ninth collection of works of the Young Writers Forum.

2020

Coordinator of the Young Writer’s Forum in the Cultural Informative 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 Cultural Informative 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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