Letters as Characters: An Anthology of Short Stories

Bringing together short stories, personal and historical accounts, and research-based narratives, the anthology asks what happens when letters become more than something we read and write. Its stories move through living, historical, and invented languages, following letters that disappear, transform, fall in love, carry secrets, or resist. Together, they explore what language can do beyond carrying meaning, and what it might do to us in return.

Edited by Eugenia Bell Conceived and designed by Anežka Minaříková & Marek Nedelka Contributions by Petr Babák, E. A. Bagby, Matthew Stuart, rae wilcox, Meg Miller, Adelina Shaidullina, Hamid Roslan, Nat Pyper, Tom Las Kohrs, Amanda-Li Kollberg, Selen Okumuş, Kelli Huggins, Övgü Gökçe, Ara Chalym, Divya Mehra, Isabel Berg, Natalia Szymańska, Chris Turner-Neal, Raelee Fourkiller, Roosje van der Kamp, Bianca Ibarlucea, Ysolde Stienon, Mangda Sengvanhpheng, Laura Martens, Ayomikun Paseda, Manda Orkhid, Yevgen Anfalov, Joanne Lam, Leitu Bonnici, Hiba Ali, Julianna Sanromán Rojas, Maxim Volk, Quenton Miller, Edgar Walthert, and Mark von Schlegell.