A literature platform for poets and authors, LitMaidanchyk is a project from the Agency of Cultural Development NGO. The aim of the project is to enable a start in the world of Ukrainian literature. The Agency holds coaching and training sessions for young authors where they can present their works and receive competent and constructive feedback from professional writers, publishers, coaches.
In March 2015, LitMaidanchyk launched Ukraine’s first competition of short crime stories – Elementary, Sir! As a result, the first book of seventeen short crime stories was published. The following competitions took place in 2016 and 2017, focusing on horror/psycho/mystique crime stories and historical crime stories respectively. Also, debut books of young authors were published under the project.

The project “Popularization of ukrainian literature abroad” was started at the beginning of 2017. Within this project the ukrainian authors have the possibility to meet the readers in Germany, Chech Republik, France. Due to the cooperation with Agency ukraininan professional writer BogdanKolomiychuk presented his books at universities, embassies, in ukraininan communities in different countries. Also the debut authors (e.g. Alla Dorosch) presented her new book in Germany.

Publishing House “Bukrek” edits and publishes poetry, political and sociological studies, folk-tales and class books. About 100 titles of books in Ukrainian, Romanian, German, French, Bulgarian, Roma, Gagauz and Hebrew are published annually. This facilitates its own printing base, only one in Western Ukraine automated line for book production . “Bukrek” based on private property in August 1992. It was one of the first publishings that were born in independent Ukraine.”.
The main goal of Bukrek is to present and to promote contemporary literature and scientific studies which show the richness, the force and the cultural or stylistic diversity of European and Ukrainian authors.

Pinzel Publishing House was founded in 2016 with the support of numerous big european publishing houses with the sole “dream” purpose – to publish the cult Belgian comics book Tintin in Ukrainian. During this time Pinzel got to his feet and carried out a number of projects: the series “Strength to Life” dedicated to the artistic embodiment of a difficult discourse on physical and mental diseases ; the Benelux series, which marked our special love for these key countries in the history and economy of Europe; the Kochur series, named in honor of a prominent Ukrainian translator-dissident, winner of the National Prize Shevchenko Hryhoriy Kochur; the series “Democracy of Kyiv”. And only after going through all these stages, in September 2019, we completed the idea from which “Pinzel” began: they released the album by Hergé “Tintin, a reporter of “The Twentieth Century”, in the country of the Soviets”. Pinzel Publishing House specializes in translated fiction, literary heritage, art albums, and translated fiction, and has succesful coopreation with such countries as USA, France, Belgium, Indonesia, Switzerland, Canada, Thailand, Slovenia and others.

We publish interesting and high-quality books on history by modern authors for modern readers. Our mission is to promote the study history of U

ZHORZH Publishing House was founded in 2016. There are more than 150 titles in Ukrainian in our portfolio. We publish both children, fiction and non-fiction literature, activity books. Our books are a modern attractive product of high polygraphic quality.

“Halijafy” is an independed publishing house founded in 2007. It has a bookstore of the same name in Minsk and an online store halijafy.by. “Halijafy” specializes in publishing of fiction literature by modern Belarusian authors, children’s books in Belarusian, and art books. The books by “Halijafy” were awarded with literary prizes, including two “Book of the Year” Belarusian awards.

Publishing house of “Chimeras House” founded in 2018 by writer Viktoria Hranetska & her husband, poet, veteran of hostilities Vlad Sord. They issued and promote Ukrainian literature of “dark” genres: horror, thriller, anti-utopia, science fiction, steampunk / cyberpunk, bestiaries, etc.

MERIDIAN CZERNOWITZ publishes fictional texts by contemporary famous and interesting Ukrainian authors (Serhiy Zhadan, Yuri Andrukhovych, Igor Pomerantsev, Oksana Zabuzhko, Taras Prokhasko, Tania Maliarchuk, Yuri Izdryk, Andriy Lyubka, Kateryna Kalytko and others.). Usually 6-8 titles are published during the year. Each edition is a separate art project.

Bright Books was founded in 2009 by Dmytro Kyrychenko.
– Bright Books is a remarkable force in today’s Ukrainian publishing industry, dedicated to bringing a first class information and entertainment in books.
-Bright Books publishes approximately 70-80 titles annually.
-Bright Books has publishing and distribution capabilities in all regions of Ukraine.
– For last few years Bright Books had a total up to 10 national bestsellers. Major bestsellers in years included
– Airport and Flight by Sergey Loiko,
– Five Love Languages for Singles by Gary Chapman,
– Steve Jobs by Walter Isaakson,
– Warm stories for a tea by Nadiyka Gerbish,
– Switch On Your Brain by Caroline Leaf,
– Maidan. The Untold Story by Sonya Koshkina,
– Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card.

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