Books
East: a pocket dictionary
poetry collection with photography
upcoming from Baobab Press, Reno, Nevada, US
Spring 2028
A Photograph is not a Story
literary novel
upcoming from Fly on the Wall Press, Manchester, UK
23 August 2027
Gdansk: Polish Lives Found in Translation
monograph featuring photography and short stories accompanying an exhibition under the same title
published by The Wapping Project, London, UK
March 2008
Magazines / Anthologies
Edgewater: 4 February 2024, 6:25 CET (GMT+1), near village Gnojno, Eastern Poland
extract from a book-length essay in progress Edgewater
published by Cheerio Publishing as Frame 66
April 2025
notes from/on/beyond a border
extract from a book-length hybrid piece, weaving diary, poetry, prose and images
published by Strings 1
March 2024
Lunar Caustic: A Memory in a Grain of Salt
prose poem looking at the chemistry of photography – silver nitrate – and questioning what lies beyond the frame of a photograph
published in an anthology A Love Affair by Theatrum Mundi, London and Paris, and Atlas Projectos, Barcelona
2023
Grey Curtain
short story looking at the experience of the loss of a life partner
published by Litro Magazine in Loneliness issue, both in print and online
Summer 2021
Minor Characters
short story reimagining the judging of the architecture competition for the Tenth-Anniversary Stadium, Warsaw, in 1953
published in an anthology Concrete and Ink: Storytelling and the Future of Architecture by Theatrum Mundi, London & Paris, & nai010 publishers, Rotterdam
June 2021
Travelling Home
short story looking at the experience of writing about journeys during the Covid-19 lockdowns
published in an anthology Interior Realms by Theatrum Mundi, London & Paris
March 2021
Cyprinus Carpio from Tesco
short story looking at the meandering origins of the Polish Christmas Carp – a fusion dish between Jewish, Polish and Soviet traditions, accompanied by illustrations by Seb Pietrovito
commissioned and published by Migrant Journal in its 6th volume
May 2019
Edited & Co-edited Books
Urban Backstages
edited by Cecily Chua, Labeja Kodua Okullu and Marta Michalowska
book of essays looking at cultural infrastructure across London, Glasgow, Paris and Marseille
Contributors: Andrea Cetrulo, Cecily Chua, Elahe Karimnia, Fani Kostourou, John Bingham-Hall, and Richard Sennett
published by Theatrum Mundi, London & Paris
2023
Site Report by Rhona Warwick Paterson
edited by Marta Michalowska
a collection of poetry in prose, verse and screenplay , where windows are a lot more than panes of glass, tables have minds of their own and sinks are conduits that connect to the wider world beyond the home
published by Theatrum Mundi, London and Paris
2022
Concrete and Ink: Storytelling and the Future of Architecture
edited by Marta Michalowska and Justinien Tribillon
Contributors: Adania Shibli, Alia Trabucco Zerán, Alison Irvine, Bedwyr Williams, Ben Okri, Crystal Bennes, Jodie Azhar, Justinien Tribillon, Marta Michalowska, Matthew Dooley, Meghana Bisineer, Mona Kareem, Natasha Lehrer, Nina Leger, Sophie Hughes and Sophie Mackintosh
published by Theatrum Mundi, London & Paris, & nai010 publishers, Rotterdam
June 2021
Interior Realms
edited by Andrea Cetrulo and Marta Michalowska,
Contributors: Alison Irvine, Andrea Cetrulo, Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Cecily Chua, Charlotte Law, Cucina Povera, ENDGAME, Flora Pitrolo, Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, John Bingham-Hall, Labeja Kodua Okullu, Lyall Hakaraia, Marta Michalowska, Meghana Bisineer, Michael Salu, Niall Campbell, Pol Esteve Castelló, Rhona Warwick Paterson, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Satu Streatfield, Stephen Sutcliffe, Victor Ginesta, Vladimir Muratovski Divo aka Elektro Kultura and William Messenger
published by Theatrum Mundi, London & Paris, & nai010 publishers, Rotterdam
March 2021
Edited & Co edited Publications
Navigations: Scoring the Moment by Adesola Akinleye
edited by Marta Michalowska
a book-length essay by dancer, choreographer and Theatrum Mundi’s Research Fellow Adesola Akinleye, proposing a transdisciplinary lexicon of Place-making
published by Theatrum Mundi, London and Paris
2022
Infrastructuring: Four Conversations on Cultural Infrastructure by Susannah Haslam
edited by Marta Michalowska and Lou-Atessa Marcellin
a publication exploring the relationship between cultural institutions and cultural infrastructures through four dialogues with cultural practitioners: Sean Roy Parker, Cecilia Wee, Meneesha Kellay, and co-directors of Theatrum Mundi – Marta Michalowska and John Bingham-Hall
published by Theatrum Mundi, London & Paris
2021
Resonance 2
edited by Marta Michalowska and Thomas Zanon-Larcher
an anthology of new writing in English, Finnish and Arabic by Jen Calleja, Saara Turunen, and Jokha Alharthi, with translations by Daisy Vaughan, Owen F. Witesman, Maria Pakkala, and Marilyn Booth. The publication features works in visual arts by Rawan AlMahrouqi, Safa Baluchi, Ruqaiya Mazar, Riham Noor Al Zadjali and Elina Brotherus.
published by The Wapping Project, London
2020
Resonance 1
edited by Marta Michalowska and Thomas Zanon-Larcher
an anthology of new writing by Alia Trabucco Zerán, published in the original in Spanish alongside the English translation by Sophie Hughes; Gareth Evans, and Laura Cannell. The publication features works in photography by Karen Stuke commissioned by The Wapping Project in 2013.
published by The Wapping Project, London
2019
To Step Across the Line
edited by Marta Michalowska and Thomas Zanon-Larcher
an anthology of new writing in prose and poetry on borders, lines, frames and edges that constrict, demarcate, define, enclose, separate, limit and open possibilities by Kapka Kassabova, Lea Anderson, and Tara Bergin, alongside a text and image piece by artist and filmmaker Mairéad McClean.
published by The Wapping Project, London
2018
Passage
edited by Marta Michalowska and Thomas Zanon-Larcher
an anthology of poetry responding to the theme of passage by Agnieszka Studzinska, Heather Phillipson, and Alia Syed, alongside a text and image piece by artist Shona Illingworth in collaboration with human rights lawyer Nick Grief and researcher Andrew Hoskins.
published by The Wapping Project, London
2017
Transition, Transformation, Transience
edited by Marta Michalowska and Thomas Zanon-Larcher
an anthology of new writing in poetry and essay responding to the themes of transition, transformation and transience by So Mayer, Lavinia Greenlaw, Alice Butler and Andrea Luka Zimmerman.
published by The Wapping Project, London
2016