Poets

Marija Velinova (2003, Shtip) is a poetess and a student at the Department of General and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philology “Blaze Koneski” at UKIM in Skopje. She is the author of the poetry collections “The Conversations We Could Never Have” (2021, Data Pesnopoj) and “The Sultriness That Makes You Languid” (2023, PNV Publishing).

She is a member of the Association for the Affirmation of Youth Culture “CULTURE BETA”,  a member of the organization team of Skopje Poetry Festival, project assistant at Philosophical Film Festival,  editor for the student magazine “In medias res” and part of the team at the publishing house “Ilika”. She has participated in various poetry readings and festivals (Struga Poetry Evenings, Poetry Night in Velestovo, Skopje Poetry Festival, Macedonian Literature Visit). Her poems have been published in domestic periodicals and translated into Serbian for the literary magazines “Bludni stih” and into English for “Selection from A New Birth of the Word (an Anthology of Macedonian Young Poetry)” published by Struga Poetry Evenings. Her poems are included in the anthologies Macedonian Love Lyrics (ed. Vesna Mojsova-Chepishevska and Ivan Antonovski, Matica Makedonska, 2024), New Birth of the Word: Anthology of Young Macedonian Poetry (ed. Vesna Mojsova-Chepishevska and Ivan Antonovski, PNV Publishing, 2023), and “FAIRIES: panorama of Macedonian poetry written by women, from the XIX century to this day” (ed. Slave Gjorgjo Dimovski and Julijana Velichkovska, Poetry Night in Velestovo, 2023).