SELF PUBLISH RIGA 2018 TOP 10

10 contest finalists selected by our jury Valentina Abenavoli, Gintaras Česonis, Evita Goze, Dieter Neubert and Lisa Stein.

First Prize - "Daffodil" by Bahadir Aksan (Turkey) 

Jury Special Mention - "Y Minsk" by Alexey Naumchik (Belarus)

Best of Baltic - "Olga" by Zanda Puče (Latvia)

Top 10:

“Treasure Island” by Aleksandra Kubos (Poland/Gemany)
“Eating Magma” by Elena Aya Bundurakis (Greece)
“RANDOM” by Jose Luis Carrasco (Spain)
“Simplex” by Ksenia Sidorova (Russia)
“An essay on the concave city corner” by Stijn Van der Linden (Belgium)
“Smoke” by Theo Elias (Sweden)
“Rhome” by Valentina Piccinni and Jean-Marc Caimi (Italy)

Full shortlist:

"Scum" by Agata Kalinowska (Poland)
"V.V.P. cult" by Alexander Chernavskiy (Russian Federation)
"Mzensk" by Anastasia Tsayder (Russian Federation)
"Hiding in the Sun" by Andris Fedotovs (Latvia)
"A Love Research" by Annemarija Gulbe (Latvia)
"The Space of a Feebleness" by Anton Vinogradov (Russian Federation)
"Triny " by Arimasa Fukukawa (Japan)
"Waiting Room" by Burak Ciritci (Turkey)
"Sinking Stone" by Cristiano Volk (Italy)
"M." by Ekaterina Anokhina (Russian Federation)
"You shall not make idols" by Elīna Semane (Latvia)
"Essential examination of a possible offense" by Elizabete Džeina Rubene (Latvia)
"on my (T) Own//Kendi Kentime" by Emre Akyuz (Turkey)
"Not Anymore" by Emre Erbay (Turkey)
"Waragi" by Florian Genz (Germany)
"So Close, Yet So Far" by Hengame Hosseini (Iran/Germany)
"City for the Blind" by Hieronymus Ahrens (Germany)
"Around 42nd and 7th" by Hiro Tanaka (Japan)
"In belief is power" by Hristina Tasheva (Bulgaria/Netherlands)
"Desentimental" by Inga Navickaite (Lithuania)
"running up that hill" by Izabela Nowak (Poland)
"46" by Jacek Fota (Poland)
"Selfitis" by Jeronimas Seibutis (Lithuania)
"pt. =====" by Jessica Raimondi (Italy)
"Retreat" by Kristīne Madjare (Latvia)
"Followers" by Linda Kletniece (Latvia)
"High Culture" by Marta Wodz (Poland)
"what battle, exactly?" by Mike Callaghan (Canada)
"She Looks 32" by Nora Vrubļevska (Latvia)
"Delta" by Oguz Karakutuk (Turkey)
"There's a Lion Near the River" by Rita Carvalho (Portugal)
"Paradise" by Sasha Kurmaz (Ukraine)
"6 not taken // You Deserve Hell" by Steffen Kloster Poulsen (Denmark)
"But so far I have not reached the trees" by Taisia Sharafutdinova (Russian Federation)
"Dissapearance" by Tomasz Laczny (Poland/UK)
"A Never Ending Story" by Viktorija Halilova (Latvia)
"Chimera" by Vladimíra Kotra (Czech Republic)