CALENDAR 2023 | I AND THE OTHER
Editor: Society of Greek Authors

“In 2023 the Society of Greek Authors celebrates 42 years since its founding. As a symbolic gesture, we chose as a theme for our Calendar the coexistence and welcome of difference, under the title I and the Other. We consider this subject of prime importance in an era such as ours, where harmonious and peaceful coexistence, within a fragile and explosive multicultural environment, is as difficult as it is necessary,” writes Anna Afendoulidou in her introductory message.
In his prologue, Iosif Ventouras expresses the wish that “the calendar of the Society of Authors this year will help readers understand and appreciate the beauty that difference can create and to approach the Other with love, admiration and sensitivity.”
Texts by members of the Authors’ Society are accompanied by photographs that share a common corollary of Difference in its various guises.

ANTHOLOGY | CHRISTMAS STORIES
Editor: Elpidoforos Intzebelis

This collection of Christmas stories contains unpublished Christmas tales written by thirty-four well-known Greek authors. These are texts that “bring to life” moments and images from the holidays and are permeated with a deep humanity. They were written to transmit the spirit of Christmas to readers as well as the religious and mystical aspects of these holy days.
The messages hidden in these stories are cloaked in the emotions and passions of their heroes but, first and foremost, they reveal the sensitivity of their creators.

ANTHOLOGY | BIRTHPLACE
Editor: Elpidoforos Intzebelis

Your birthplace is the starting point for you to arrive and get to know your personal world. Or, more precisely, for you to discover it. This is where you learn what your road is, with its sounds and its adventure, what the pavement is, what buildings are with their secrets and their stories and, mainly, who the people are that live next door.
Sixty-six authors write about the city of their birth in this anthology. They look at how it was then and how it is today. They revisit the experiences they lived through and the events that occurred as they grew up in their hometown.
Sixty-six moving, nostalgic, delightful, brilliant, human stories.

ANTHOLOGY | SUMMER LOVES
Editor: Elpidoforos Intzebelis

How do writers describe love and summertime? Is it just something that can be described or something more than words, something that leads to the soul?

Do we love another person or something illusory? If the being that we’re in love with is a mirror of ourselves, what happens when the reflections become a text? How are they described, since in writing the object of one’s desire is not something that exists, embodied, but only words.

In this collection, 49 authors confront this double theme as the starting point for texts that are historical, experiential, surrealistic, psychoanalytic, theatrical and political, each of them in their own unique way. Their stories resemble a wide-open window in the same house, where the whole of the Greek reality resides. They express tenderness, nostalgia, desire, bitterness, agony, innocence, pain, joy, loneliness, hope, and countless other emotions. An invisible thread connects the words, giving us an impressive panoramic view, where love and summer bring back memories that attract us and redeem us.

The annual calendar of the Writers Society contains prose and poetry by 70 of the Society’s members for the international milestone posed by the upcoming anniversary of the Greek War of Independence in 1821 about the heroes, the battles and the role of the foreign powers. It also contains texts on how revolutions and especially that of 1821 are brought to life in literature as well as what the meaning of the word ‘uprising’ might mean to each one of us as individuals. The calendar is illustrated with works by Katerina Mamai.

A COLLECTION | NAVIGATING WITH POETRY

This volume contains poems by the following writers, in alphabetical order: Patritsia Aivali, Konstantinos Bouras, Dimitrious Boutos, Sideris Dioudis, Olympia Fika, Emilios Gasparis, Georgia Gianniou, Elpidoforos Intzebelis, Potis Katrakis, Nikolaos Kountodios, Dionysis Koulentianos, Giannis Lymberis, Sophia Markozani, Stelios Papadopoulos, Akrivi Papadopoulou-Karali, Stavros Papoutsis, Harikleia Rizou, Sophia Spyrou, Nella Synadinou, Makis Tsitas, Stavros Tzortzos, Peristera Voulgaraki, Eleni Zacharia

Cover design by the artist and Stegis member Grigoris Seremetakis, and illustrations by Athina Tzei, Stavros Tzortzou and Katerina Vasilaki.

A Collection | Through You
Editor: Dimitris Varvarigos

Kostas Akrivos, Dimitris Alexiou, Giorgos Christodoulou, Alexandra Deligiorgi, Lily Exarchopoulou, Dimitris Fyssas, Kostis Gimosoulis, Giorgos Houliaras, Elpidoforos Intzebelis, Niobe Ioannou, Nea Kokkinaki, Kostia Kontoleon, Manos Kontoleon, Telemachos Kostsias, Antonia-Belika Koumbareli, Zeta Kountouri, Kostas Kremmydas, Amanda Michalopoulou, Iro Nikopoulou, Elena Nousia, Maria Papadimitriou, Liana Sakelliou, Iphigenia Siafaka, Maria Skiadaresi, Antonis Skiathas, Alexis Stamatis, Eri Stavropoulou, Makis Tsitas, Dimitris Varvarigos, Katie Vasilakou

A unique collection of stories to keep sadness away from our doors.
Thirty stories, small texts that as a literary narrative genre offer the allure of a myth, a tale with a beginning, middle and end.
A good story finds its appeal through the emotions it calls up in the reader’s psyche.

COLLECTIVE PROJECT | 7 QUESTS – THE STORY OF GREECE THROUGH THE RED CROSS QUESTS

Roula Georgakopoulou, Stefanos Dandolos, Akis Dimos, Giorgos Skambardonis, Giannis Tsiros, Makis Tsitas, Thanasis Heimonas

7 Quests is a multifaceted work, a publication with backbone, with texts that are poetic and/or realistic, in search of the identities of people from one end of Greece to the other. 7 playwrights recount the history of Greece through the radio broadcasts of the Red Cross. A Greece that belongs to the Middle East, the civil war, emigration to Germany, the ‘disappeared’ of Cyprus, the prosperity of the 1990s, contemporary urban isolation. 7 one-act texts by our important contemporary writers -- Akis Dimos, Roula Georgakopoulou, Stefanos Dandolos, Giorgos Skambardonis, Giannis Tsiros, Makis Tsitas, and Thanasis Heimonas – form a portrait of Greece from the 1920s to the present. 7 separate texts, 7 sensational stories, 7 quests: war, emigration, disappearance, captivity, isolation, settling down, loneliness. The twists of historic time, as it unfolds, where the then meets the now, the panorama of the historic ups and downs of the post-war years and the human histories that coincide with the great events of Greece’s modern history. The ‘little’ human stories inside the greater History. An attempt to pinpoint a human path, with the aim of discovering our identity, the restoration of meaning to our relationships with ‘the other’ and finally the search for our social persona.

The Calendar 2020 – an anthology of poems entitled “Oh! Love” -- has been distributed every year beginning in 2012, with the exception of 2019.

It is a wonderful gift for the holidays and enables the friends of poetry to get to know new poets.

There is a poem for each day of the year, making it an archive of mainly contemporary poets and enabling the researcher-critics of the future to evaluate and provide material.

The poems are chosen by Panagiota Christopoulou-Zaloni, the poet and publisher of the Literary Journal KELAINO, and a committee from Vergina Books & Publications.

What makes it unique is that, rather than paying to appear in the anthology, the authors are selected by a committee that evaluates the poems based on criteria and taking into consideration all types of poetry (traditional, rhymed, disciplined and free verse).