Artists in residence at artist-run spaces

Bereket Hailemariam is a Malmö-based playwright and poet. After studying theology and philosophy in London, he attended Biskops Arnö’s writers’ school before earning a master’s degree in Literary Composition from HDK-Valand.

Most recently, in winter 2025, his play Teorier om människan was staged at Backa Teater. He is currently working on a new play, Endast enär nåd, as well as his debut book, the short story collection Tre sånger.

During his residency at AiC, Bereket will work on his literary debut, a collection of short stories provisionally titled Tre sånger, with the aim of completing the manuscript during his stay. His artistic practice revolves around silence — its rhythm, music and tension, both on stage and on the page.

Larysa Andriievska is a Ukrainian translator, editor, researcher, and curator of translation projects. During her November residency, she will work on the Ukrainian translation, editorial preparation, and an introductory essay for Zeszyt z wierszami z Auschwitz (Notebook with Poems from Auschwitz)—a handwritten notebook of poems created by prisoners of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The project aims to make this unique historical document accessible to Ukrainian readers and introduce it into Ukraine’s cultural and scholarly discourse.

Iryna Beschetnova (Iryna Nova) is a multidisciplinary artist from Kharkiv, Ukraine, now based in Lviv. She creates poetry, prose, plays, film scripts, as well as visual and mixed-media projects. Her work often explores themes of feminism, trauma, and the refugee experience. Iryna’s plays have been performed in Ukraine, France, Germany, and Finland, while her poetry and prose have been featured in various literary journals. She is the author of the poetry collection 200 Grams of Poetry, published in Ukraine and subsequently released in Belgium in her own French translation. During the residency, she will work on the English translation of her second poetry collection, and will continue writing her debut prose novel about a person who is guided in his life by fortune cookie predictions.

Hande Ortaç is a writer exploring life’s challenges through an ecofeminist lens, centring queer experiences, women’s stories, and more inclusive possibilities for the future across different literary forms. Her work moves across genres, bringing everyday realities such as digital violence into dialogue with dystopian landscapes, ecological crises, and post-human imaginaries. She is currently working on an ecofeminist novel set 100 years in the future on the Anatolian Peninsula, transformed by climate catastrophe, earthquakes and desertification. During her residency, she will further develop the novel, considering what might endure from the present into the future while deepening her exploration of land-based practices, sustainability, and embodied knowledge, and how these might shape more resilient futures.

David Grundy is a poet, critic and scholar. The author of A True Account (The 87 Press, 2023), a collection of poems, and the non-fiction collection Present Continuous (Pamenar Press, 2022), his most recent collaborative work, Abstractive, with Candace Hill Montgomery (Further Other Book Works, 2026), develops intersections between poetry and visual art. He writes regularly on music for The Wire and other publications. Alongside his creative practice, he is the author of the academic books Never By Itself Alone (Oxford University Press, 2024, on queer poetry), and A Black Arts Poetry Machine (Bloomsbury, 2019, on the Black Arts Movement). He is an editor and publisher with the small press Materials, and organises readings and workshops across Europe and the US. During the residency, he will work on a hybrid manuscript combining poetry, essay, and journal forms in response to contemporary political conditions.