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Envisaged as the third iteration of the spirit of Lola Montez (Lola, Maria, Mario), Montez Press was formed in 2012 and has since worked to publish texts writing against current critical modalities and theoretical dogmas which inform the workings of contemporary knowledge economy.
The Ginny Suite’s UK book tour kicks off this Thursday at . Find at in Glasgow on the 6th then popping back to London for an In Conversation at on the 9th. Ticket links in bio 🔗🔗🔗
[Image Description: A two slide pink bookmark stating 4th July, The Horse Hospital, London. 6th July, Burning House Books, Glasgow. 9th July, Burley Fisher Books, London.]
Join us at for an In Conversation with , author of The Ginny Suite, and , author of The Last Sane Woman, hosted by on Thursday 9th July from 6.30pm til 9pm. Tickets in link in bio. 🎟️🔗
[Image Description: Two slides showing a bookmark stating — Stacy Skolnik & Hannah Regel In Conversation. Burley Fisher, Tuesday July 9, 2024, 6:30 - 9pm.]
We had a blast at the US launch of The Ginny Suite at in NYC. The UK tour of the Ginny Suite starts on the 4th of July with a UK launch party at , a Glasgow launch at and an In Conversation with and at . Check the links in our bio for tickets 🔗
[Image description: A series of photographs showing the launch party including, a happy Tom and Stacy, Stacy mid-performance, a chatty crowd, Hasti and a cocktail, Claire reading, the hyper-sheen of The Ginny Suite, warm lighting, Fiona reading, M stickers and The Ginny suite on a Victorian rose table, a selection of meats.]
Announcing our Writer Residency recipients — Kaiya Waerea, Enya Ettershank, Em Woudenberg, Lux Pyre, Mercy Moktar, Sean Burns, Campbell King, Imani Mason Jordan and Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson.
Special thanks to our first residents Shola Von Reinhold, Chanel Vegas and Moya DeYoung for helping us develop our residencies and inform the way they work for future.
[Image Description: A series of 9 portraits; a happy Kaiya, a black and white image of Enya, a pensive Em, a relaxed Lux, Mercy at her studio, a triptych of Seans, Campbell in pews, a performing Imani and a smiley Lateisha.]
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Join us on Saturday 6th July at Burning House Books, Glasgow, for a night of readings and performances from Stacy Skolnik, Maria Sledmere and Suki Hollywood, in celebration of the launch of Stacy’s debut novel The Ginny Suite.
Born in Belfast on Valentine’s Day, Suki Hollywood is a writer and poet. Her work has been featured in Gutter, Deleuzine, SPAM, Water Wings and more. Her debut novel ‘Jesus Freaks - a q***r thriller - is available now via wwww.sukihollywood.com.
Maria Sledmere’s latest collection is ‘Cinders’ with Krupskaya Books, 2024. She is managing editor of SPAM Press and a Lecturer in English & Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde. With Kevin Leomo, she is one half of Project Somnolence: a portable lab for exploring speculative approaches to sleep across art, literature and daily life. Her next book, ‘Midsummer Song (Hypercritique)’ is forthcoming with NoUP Press in 2024.
Join us at the UK launch of The Ginny Suite featuring , .a.russell, and at Thursday July 4th. Tickets available in the link in the bio. 🔗✨
[Image Description: Two images of a purple bookmark stating; The Ginny Suite UK Book Launch. Stacy Skolnik, John Russell, Ella Frears, Sheena Patel. Horse Hospital Thursday 4th, 2024 7-11pm.]
Thursday! NYC! 7pm! The launch of The Ginny Suite by Stacy Skolnik — get your copy while it’s hot bc we’ve sold out in studio & we are printing the 2nd Edition for the upcoming UK leg of the tour. Congratulations Stacy, can’t wait to celebrate with you!
June’s Interjection Calendar contribution ‘First Letter To My Mother’ by Taha Afefe is live & ready to read. Link in bio. Guest edited by Rhea Dillon.
Taha Afefe (b. 1991) is a multidisciplinary artist from Palestine who graduated from the visual communication department at Wizo Haifa. He lives and creates in Haifa. In his art he searches for a sense of belonging and asks questions about identity in the state of refugees. Moving between visual communication and art, also between digital art and material use, he is interested in using typography and language as a central role in the construction of identity. Afefe has participated in a number of group exhibitions including “Black Box” at the Digital Art Museum in Holon, “Design Week” in the Netherlands, “Bezalel Gallery for Contemporary Art”, “Freshpaint art & design fair” in Tel Aviv, and many more.
Happy publication day to The Ginny Suite, by our very own Stacy Skolnik 💐 huge congratulations Stacy! We’re so proud of this one!
Book tour info as follows:
June 6th Launch event New York ft
July 4th Launch event London ft. .a.russell
July 6th reading event Glasgow
July 9th Stacy Skolnik and Hannah Regel in conversation London
Pick up your copy in person at one of the events, or buy now - link in bio.
Visit us at The Artists’ Fair at on 1st June from noon to 9pm to browse our catalogue IRL. 📖👀
Tickets are available on a pay what you can basis.
[Image description: The two images are sections of a digital bookmark stating: Visit us at The Artists’ Fair. Somerset House Strand, London WC2R 1LA. June 01, 2024 12:00 - 21:00. The bookmark is light in tone with textured text.]
Catch us this weekend, 17th - 19th May and at A Bigger Book Fair - come and browse our catalogue IRL. ☀️ 📖 📚
Announcing the launch of The Ginny Suite upstairs at , Thursday 6th June at 7pm. Readings from , .constance182, , , and music by .
[Image description: Grey bookmark split into two slides with textured text, stating “Book Release: The Ginny Suite by Stacy Skolnik, Thursday June 6, 2024 7pm. Upstairs at the Russian Samovar, 256 W 52nd Street, New York, NY. Music from Maggie Lee. Readings from Stacy Skolnik, Constence DeJong, Alissa Bennett, Dena Yago, Eliza Barry Callhan”.]
Stacy Skolnik is the author of the forthcoming novel The Ginny Suite and is a co-founder and co-director of Montez Press Radio. In her writing, humiliation, self-disgust, domination, attraction, vulnerability, and desire array themselves into commentary on the ballooning economy of attention and representation, the digital performance of identity, and the construction of personae. Link in bio to read an excerpt from The Ginny Suite, published in Granta Magazine this week.
[Image description: In the first image Stacy stands in front of a blue house, behind a metal fence, holding her dog Dawson in her arms. The second image is an excerpt from Granta reading “The Spread. Stacy Skolnik. A few weeks before the first cases were reported in New York, I went in for my surgery. They had to remove what they referred to as a tumor, but what I’d always known almost affectionately as ‘my bald spot’ – a naked splotch of skin the size of a silver dollar on the upper left quadrant of my skull. It was my ugly birthmark – a quirky hidden trait that only used to bother me after swimming, hair wet and oddly parted, exposing my raw epidermis to the sun, or at the start of a relationship when a man would caress my hair, otherwise voluminous, healthy, and rich with waves while watching a movie, and I’d work to move his hand elsewhere, away from that crude indicator of my imperfection.” The final image is Stacy and Dawson sitting on their respective couches, the image is warm toned and cosy.]
Join us at the 23rd Annual Indie Publishers Book Fair at , Thursday 9th May. Have a drink with us and check out our catalogue IRL. 📚👀
[Image description: Yellow bookmark split into two slides with peach colored text, stating “ Join us at the 3rd Annual Indie Publishers Book Fair at Artists Space. Thursday May 9, 2024 6-8pm. Free, open to all, drinks provided. Artists space 11 Cortlandt Alley, New York, NY 10013. Featuring: Belladona * Collaborative; Birds, LLC: Black Sun Lit; Dead End Zine; Fence; Futurepoem; Hanging Loose Press: Litmus Press; Montez Press and Montez Press Radio; Tender Buttons Press; Roof Books; Ugly Duckling Presse; Wave Books; Wendy’s Subway; Winter Editions; World Poetry Books”. The third image is the same colorway and re-iterates the same information in a square format.]
Behind the scenes of Sam Cottington’s Phone Plays 📱👀available on the site — link in bio.
Visit us at the Free Verse Poetry Book and Magazine fair this Saturday 20th from 11:30 - 18:30. 📚 Browse our catalogue IRL and get an inside look behind the scenes with Hasti at the Free Verse Editor’s Panel, on at 11:45.
Very exciting news! The Interjection Calendar 008 (2022) is in print and will be launched at South London Gallery on 28th April 2023 with a night of live performances and readings.
Contributors to the Interjection Calendar 008: Isaac Kariuki, Kondo, Johanna Owen, Olivia Douglass, Alice Theobald, Ingrid Banerjee Marvin, Yaniya Lee, Ellie Hoskins, El Salem, Amy Ching-Yan Lam, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Moya DeYoung.
2022’s calendar was guest edited by the brilliant Onyeka Igwe. Onyeka Igwe is an artist and researcher working between cinema and installation, and born and based in London, UK. Through her work, Onyeka is animated by the question — how do we live together? — with particular interest in the ways the sensorial, spatial and non-canonical ways of knowing can provide answers to this question. Onyeka uses embodiment, voice, archives, narration and text to create structural ‘figure-of-eights’, a format that exposes a multiplicity of narratives. The work comprises untying strands and threads, anchored by a rhythmic editing style, as well as close attention to the dissonance, reflection and amplification that occurs between image and sound.
The Interjection Calendar is a project devised and hosted by Montez Press. Each month an artist or writer is commissioned to produce a new piece of work for release on our website. At the end of the year the collection is published, demonstrating a diverse range of collaborations and experimental works, mapping the year in contemporary art writing, with equal space held for the emerging and the established. The Calendar reflects the current importance of online content media, pushing the relationship between image and text in this domain.
A huge thank you to all artists and writers who contributed to this publication, we feel very lucky to have worked with you all.
Our latest release the LP ‘nicorette’ from is available for pre order on our website. The LP will be released on 10 March, 7pm at Bar Collo, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof - link in bio 😈
The LP nicorette contains 10 performative songs, which deal with everyday situations in an uncanny light, like a cat with no swimsuit, a dog with no watch but a sharp view, or failed eye contact on a Skype call. As with Anja Dietmann’s motifs, the instruments on the recording often include articles of daily use and invert expectations. Saltshakers serve as percussion instruments; a midi Casio guitar substitutes the sound of a piano. The result is an auditory space in which–without much vocal technical interference–the narrative stands in the foreground.
“The performative as well as pictorial aspect of the work is also visible in the leaflet that comes with the LP, which shows the artist's staging alongside text images. Anja Dietmann slips into roles and creates images that are characterised by a captivating accessibility. Her art is based on the idea of understanding language as something through which society not only communicates but also constantly questions its self-image.” - Nadine Droste, director of Kunstverein Bielefeld.
Enabled by the art grant of the Zeit-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius in cooperation with the Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg (Germany).
Anja Dietmann has performed at: Easterfield Festival, Kunstverein in Hamburg, 2021; Kunstverein Bielefeld, 2019; Kunstverein in Hamburg, 2018. Her work has been shown by: TheArtists, Zürich, 2022, Il Caminetto, Hamburg, 2018; Hansa Ruderclub, Hamburg, 2017. She curates Bar Collo, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, 2022-2023. Dietmann is director of Pfeil Magazine, and vocalist of the music group Barsoi.
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[photo ID : 1st image is of the front cover of the nicorette LP with a vinyl record coming out the right hand side. The front cover image is of a candle with a lighter spark on top.
2nd image: inside credits of LP with tracklist on one page and lyrics of the song ‘cat’s swimsuit’ on a second sheet of white paper.
Hosted by Montez Press, authors Rosanna McLaughlin (Sinkhole: Three Crimes, Montez Press) and Jen Calleja (Vehicle, Prototype) will read from and be in conversation wrt each of their novels, with an introduction from artist Christiane Blattmann, the editor of Sinkhole.
Rosanna McLaughlin is an author and cultural critic. Double-Tracking, her debut collection of satirical essays and short fiction on the subject of middle-class duplicities, was published by Carcanet in 2019. An original proposal for the book was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize in 2016. Rosanna has written on subjects including Ariana Grande, the legacy of Section 28, and the weaponisation of Ana Mendieta. In 2017, she was writer-in-residence for the British Council Caribbean, researching the political fallout following Mendieta’s death. Her reviews and essays have been published in frieze magazine, ArtReview and the Guardian, among other places. She is co-editor of The White Review.
Jen Calleja is a writer, translator and publisher based in Hastings. Her latest books are Vehicle: a verse novel (Prototype) and the book-length poem Dust Sucker (Makina Books). She has translated nearly twenty works of German-language literature and was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019. She is also co-publisher at Praspar Press, which publishes Maltese literature in English and English translation.
The event starts at 7pm, Saturday 4th March at The Common Press, 118 Bethnal Green Rd, London E2 6DG. Booking is free but essential - link in our bio.
February’s Interjection Calendar ‘El Bosque Cardinal The Cardinal Forest’ by Pansy Bbes and edited by Hasti, is ready to read. Link in our bio!
Pansy Bbes is a gardener, poet, singer, DJ, promoter and co-founder of Maricumbia, a q***r Latinx club night based in London. They have published online with the 87press, foundation.fm, and Writerz and Scribez. They have performed at the Roundhouse, the Albany, the Young Vic, Richmix, the Tate Modern in London, Soup Kitchen in Manchester and Star and Shadow in Newcastle. They were a poet/singer in residence at Star and Shadow with Generator and Brighter Sound and are currently working on a self-sustaining food garden. Their work is a playground of horticulture, poetry, music, tarot, and astrology.
Following the epic finale of Happy Valley on the BBC on Sunday, we’re reminded of page 89 of Sirens by Bod Mellor, featuring the painting Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire) along with the complete series of Sirens paintings!
You can catch Bod Mellor’s site specific mural Backstage Boo & pick up a copy of Sirens from Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof until the end of 2023, or get a copy of the book direct from our website.
Following the epic finale of Happy Valley on the BBC Ain Sunday, we’re reminded of page 89 of Sirens by Bod Mellor, featuring the painting Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire), 2016 along with the complete series of Sirens paintings!
You can catch Bod Mellor’s site specific mural Backstage Boo & pick up a copy of Sirens from Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof until the end of 2023, or get a copy of the book direct from our website.
Rosanna McLaughlin’a ‘Sinkhole: Three Crimes’ was listed as one of list of books to read this winter among some other great publications💚
You can get a copy directly from our website, link in bio 🖇️
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Looking for a new magazine to read? Look no further than Pfeil, Issue 16. Based on mutual affection and trust, this issue focuses on the meaning of Friend along with its opposites, in the sense of material, animal or human relationships, kinship, phantoms and ghosts, parasitism, love, enmity, similarities or incompatibility. We deal with political connections to the economy, the criminal justice system, a waterbed, befriended sunflowers, and sock poems.
Contributors
Aarushi Matiyani, Adam Christensen, Alexander Weinstock, Alison Yip, Andreas Siekmann, Asma Ben Slama, Cradle Community, David Fletcher, Eva Ďurovec, Hans-Christian Dany, Jolanta Nowaczyk, Juliette Mancini, Katy Lewis Hood, Licia Soldavini, Louis d’Heudières, Marek Ďurovec, Martijn in ’t Veld, Nouria Behloul, Sébastien Tripod, Shirin Fahimi, Stacy Skolnik, Thomas Laprade, Till Krause, Tobias Peper, Valérie Knoll, William Bakaïmo, Xiaopeng Zhou.
It’s 2023 and we have a brand new Interjection Calendar for you. ‘Agatha’s Revenge’ by Katayoun Jalilipour is the first contribution, guest edited by Hasti.
Katayoun Jalilipour is an Iranian-born multidisciplinary artist and writer based in the UK. They often use speculative histories and fictions to re-tell stories through a q***r lens. They have an ongoing body of research looking for fragments of q***rness hidden in Iran’s Qajar era, and specifically centring intimacy, eroticism and gender nonconformity.
A reminder that we have a new title out now, Sinkhole: Three Crimes by Rosanna Mclaughlin. If you would like to stock Sinkhole in your shop please do email us on [email protected]
A novel in three parts, Sinkhole: Three Crimes submerges readers in a grotesque and comical world on the edge of collapse – much like our own. Britain is immersed in a toxic swamp, and sinkholes are opening up in the ground with alarming frequency. Amid the mayhem, three crimes take place: Stonehenge has been stolen, a porn-addicted ghost writer faces the phantoms of her past, and a murder takes place among ex-pats in a Goan village.
‘An acidly funny vivisection of British mores and follies, delivered with razor wit and style. McLaughlin’s creative imagination is restless, wide-ranging and prescient, unveiling a terrifyingly plausible array of futures.’ – Leon Craig, author of Parallel Hells
‘Sinkhole is a twisted dystopian satire that captures all the maladies of modern England – a sick and perverse nation – in hilarious, pin-sharp definition, as it slides back under the waves.’ – Huw Lemmey, author of Red Tory: My Corbyn Chemsex Hell
Reminder that New Mindpmapping Forms is available directly from our online shop ❤️
Eva Ďurovec works as a software tester 40 hours per week and studies art at the same time. There are not enough hours in the day to complete everything, to comply with everything. And then there is also her desire to have children. The question: how can all of this be reconciled within the profession of artist? Ďurovec investigates the possibilities that arise from different class formats, and asks what we produce and reproduce—with our bodies, through our routines, trapped between the recurring desires and cruelties of daily life. She writes about forgotten dreams, social orders, and fantasizes about what kinds of new models for living together might be conceivable.
With an epilogue by Alice Creischer: For me, it is not a diary, as Eva calls it, but an almanac […] that describes the counter- forces that prevent us from suffocating in the face of power. They are the desires and projections that, in this fragile life, tenaciously resist a pull that can be called normalisation. […] All labour relations, whether on the assembly line or in front of the PC, are only part of an exploitation that affects the whole of life and obliterates all projections. The almanac reports on this totality and how it becomes concrete in the everyday life of looking for a flat, wanting children, chronic illnesses and their treatment, relationships and friends. It also reports on the deep need for a spiritual asylum on the run from totality. The asylum lies in the knowledge of a historical continuity of thought and action that is always superior to exploitation. It exposes — often seemingly with ease and as if in a game or joke — the power of exploitation as incapable of creating meaning, as a machine.
Eva Ďurovec (*1981 in Snina, former Czechoslovakia) studied Spatial Strategies at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weiensee. Her work deals with living-space and life-fulfillment in the context of social, economic, and environmental crises, and with issues of corporate power and kleptocracy.
We are super excited to introduce Hasti as the guest editor for the Interjection Calendar 2023. Hasti has been on the editorial team for a year now and we love working with them 💕
Hasti is a poet and writer living in South East London. A member of the Ledbury Poetry Critics and an alumnus of the Southbank New Poets Collective, they have published poems in the Poetry Review, bathmagg and zindabad zine, and co-written short sci-fi film DIGGING as part of the Foresight series produced by Film4. They are interested in the intersections where different cultures and subcultures meet, and what it sounds like there.
Image description: Hasti standing behind a mic in front of a blue banner.
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