📣 I am thrilled to announce our first invited guest at MAYAK: writer, researcher, and performer Estelle Benazet Heugenhauser will join us on July 9!

Born in 1985, Estelle is a Franco-Austrian author whose work merges textual theory, fiction, and visual arts. Her writing focuses on bodies in states of desire, hunger, and exertion—seeking to disrupt established systems and generate new, embodied forms of knowledge. Her publications include Le Régime parfait (Rotolux Press, 2022) and Bêcher son visage(La Chambre verte, 2020), alongside contributions to magazines such as TrouNoir, La Déferlante, Jef Klak, Sabir, and A.O.C.

She has also created public literary performances and lectures at venues including Point Ephémère, Centre Pompidou, Les Subsistances, Villa Médicis in Rome, and the Franco-Irish Literary Festival. Currently, she is completing a PhD in Creative Writing at Université Côte d’Azur and Dublin City University, titled Écrire avec les affamées. Manières de (se) nourrir dans la littérature contemporaine ("Writing with Hungry Women. Ways of Eating in Contemporary Literature").

During our session, Estelle will read excerpts from her novel Le Régime parfait (Rotolux Press, 2022) in French. This will open up a rich discussion on food politics, the intersections of gender, class, race, and nourishment, and the figure of the hungry girl in contemporary literature—both fictional and non-fictional.

🕖 MAYAK is a weekly multilingual writing circle held every Wednesday, 19:00–20:30 at The Dissident Club in Paris. Led by Marko Kolomytskyi (@markokolomytskyi), a student of the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, MAYAK is a space for writers and poets of all languages to gather, share, and explore.

Each session ends with a writing exercise curated by Adelson Lewis (@adelson.lewis), encouraging experimentation and deeper engagement with language.

🛑This will be our last MAYAK gathering before the summer break. We’ll return on September 9 with new guests.

To celebrate the season’s end, join us afterwards for [DJ LIVE] Summer Rotations, hosted by B Stous & friends, from 22:30 to 01:30.

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