ANSUZ: FEMINIST FAIRY TALES
Published in Turkish, Spanish, and English, Ansuz is a collection of feminist fairy tales from the periphery that casts a mystical trilingual spell. It was born between languages and the intersections of friendship, feminism, and a love for literature.
Ansuz is rooted in the desire for sharing stories that question the centre. Whether that centre be European, patriarchal, monolingual or hetero normative. Within these pages live Istanbulite witches, Icelandic ghosts, benevolent monsters from Chiloé, owls, cats, and a melancholy Iranian artist. We hope these fairy tales will enchant you.
Published by Libros del Ciempiés, 2025. Available in Spanish, English and Turkish.
Purchase at: https://ciempies.es/ansuz-feminist-fairy-tales
SIDIKA HANIM’IN BÜYÜLERİ: BİLİNÇALTINA İNMEK İÇİN 30 YARATICI YAZI EGZERSİZİ
This creative writing manual was created as an antidote to perfectionism, writer’s block, and the fear of the blank page. The 30 exercises within it are Jungian in nature, focusing on accessing your unconscious through imagination and play. You can read the manual from beginning to end, or from the end towards the beginning, or by closing your eyes and opening a page to see what the muses have in store for you. Each exercise can be done countless times as each practice will yield a different story. We hope that Sıdıka Hanım will be a faithful friend to you during your creative journey for many years to come.
Published by Pinhan, 2025. Available in Turkish.
A CONPENDIUM TO MELANCHOLIC DJINNS
A young academic named Ada finds a mysterious letter in her mailbox which contains an old Ottoman protection spell for a women’s library no historian knows about, and a map with directions on how to reach it. The library, which is now abandoned to djinns and to odd birds, is inside a crumbling, pink mansion by the Bosphorus.
Ada begins an academic investigation into who these forgotten women librarians really were, and what books they dedicated their lives to. Books of magic, coffeehouse manuscripts, feminist manifestos, long lost encyclopeadias… all of which keep mentioning a mysterious woman alchemist from the 15th century. And with this last piece of the puzzle, Ada’s research becomes a mystical quest into the past where fairy tales turn into reality and books hide secrets that may better be forgotten.
Published by İthaki Yayınları, 2024. Available in Turkish.
Purchase at: https://www.ithakiyayingrubu.com/melankolik-cinler-havuzu.aspx
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