Heroines on Stage / Heroines at the Zenith

Public reading of poetry by six women poets, within the ‘Heroines at the Zenith’ festival will be held at the Zenit Books bookstore, on 9 June, as part of the Heroines programme arch.

The poets will perform on stage as rock and roll stars in front of an audience that will stand and jump like at a rock concert. After each individual performance, the authors will have a dialogue with the audience and answer questions.

Participants: Ognjenka Lakićević, Sonja Jankov, Jelena Marinkov, Jelena Žugić, Ana Marija Grbić and Tijana Sladoje

Announcer: Dina Rašić

The four-day festival ‘Heroines at the Zenith’ opens a space for presentation, getting acquainted with and opening dialogue with important female prose writers, poets, literary critics, and editors in publishing houses with an unequivocally thoughtful and enlightened feminist view of the world.

Literature created by women has not been synonymous with the margin for a long time: precisely, it puts local literary production in the European and international context by re-examining the dominant ideological canon and implicit male-centric policies of exclusivity and violence.

On the second day of the festival, attendees will be able to meet female prose writers, on the third day the editors in publishing, while on the fourth day they will have the opportunity to hear from female literary critics.

Erste Bank is the partner of the Heroines programme arch.

Photo: Promo