Book Space Festival was founded in 2018 in Dnipro. This is the first regular book event of this scale in eastern Ukraine. It is also the first book festival in Ukraine that aims to stimulate innovative approaches to book publishing. For this purpose, the annual special program “Books of the Future” and the accompanying competition “Book of the Future” were launched within the festival.

LITERARY AGENCY OVO — established in 2019 with an ambitious goal to advance modern Ukrainian literature into the international context. The agency promotes talented Ukrainian authors both in Ukraine and abroad. The Agency also represents foreign publishers in Ukraine.

Star Fortress Literary Union was created in 2008. The union’s main goal is promotion of Science Fiction and Fantasy in Ukraine. Star Fortress site hosts short story contests. The union actively interacts with publishers and creates special SF&F programs at major Ukrainian literary festivals.

For last three years, the CONDOR Publishing House has been publishing and distributing books by prestigious literary awards winners, and supporting Ukrainian literature. Their main goal is to bring to the reader all the variety of modern Ukrainian prose and to introduce new authors.

Inzhyr — the fictional cat by Olena Pavlova, web comics character, that currently gained over 26 000 followers on Facebook. He became viral — a meme-character which promotes reading, Ukrainian culture and democratic values. Inzhyr loves sushi, books and revolutions – he was present at the Kyiv Maidan protests from the very first night. Also he helped the Ukrainian army to fight against the rats on the eastern front-line. During 2020 some pictures with this imaginary Ukrainian cat gained thousands of shares at social media, defining Inzhyr as opinion leader.

The project “Newest Ukrainian Lullaby” was launched in 2019. We collect author’s Ukrainian lullabies of the 21st century, research them with specialists who represent different fields of activity and openly share the results. The project constantly collaborates with poets, musicians, artists and various institutions. Our goal is to stimulate the development of the phenomenon of the author’s Ukrainian lullaby and to record the history of this development at the intersection of genres and types of arts. Now we would like to present to your attention two printed editions – art non-fiction by writer Natalka Marynchak “Lullaby of the 21st century Vol.1: what lulls you?”, as well as a collection of scores “Lullaby of the 21st century Vol.1”. In our program we present a unique lecture by Natalka Marynchak “What lulls us? Phenomenon of a newest author’s Ukrainian lullaby ”and also present two printed editions.

Center for Urban History combines the study of urban spaces, communities, and cultures of the 19-20th centuries with digital and public history projects. We advocate for an inclusive approach to the past, for the development of infrastructure to support interdisciplinary research and various forms of presenting the outcomes.

Chytanka is a first Ukrainian digital bookstore where ebooks are protected from the copyright infringement.
The platform includes iOS & Android apps for the readers and a publishers’ dashboard to upload books and track purchases.

The Maryanychi Trio has existed for over 2 years with more than 30 songs in its repertoire. As well as several conceptual musical performances, including the performance “Don’t Let Go!” for trio and orchestra.

Marjana Savka is chief and co-founder of the Staryi Lev Publishing House, writer, translator, actress, performer, artist and frontwoman of the Maryanychi Trio band. She’s also an author of 20 books for children and adults, and several cultural and artistic projects.

Sergii Osoka is writer, editor, columnist, translator.

ZWL goal is to initiate and implement waste prevention practices and cultivate behavior of conscious consumption in the city Lviv, which will serve as a model for Ukraine facilitating the transition to Zero waste city based on circular economy approach through advocacy, research, stakeholder dialog and innovative pilot projects. ZWL is a founding member of Zero Waste Alliance Ukraine, member of Zero Waste Europe Network