About Publisher & Editorial board
About
Celje's Literary Society
Celje’s Literary Society was founded in 2001 due to a desire for the gathering of amateur literary creators.
Since its beginnings, the Society has published the literary journal Vsesledje and organised literary events.
The Society dabbles in all sorts of literature, though speculative fiction has been a major part of its activities in the last years.
Celje’s Literary Society is active in the region of the former Yugoslavia and is, at least in terms of speculative fiction, the most active of all similar Slovene groups in that regard. The international cooperation also includes taking part in Eurocon.
About
Bojan Ekselenski
Editor-in-chief
Born 29 June 1964 in Celje (then in Yugoslavia, now Slovenia). Attended the Celje IV. Primary School, which was later renamed as Ivan Kovačič Efenka Primary School, but later reverted to its original name. He then attended the Secondary School of Chemistry in Celje, which was similarly renamed and transformed. After this, he completed his obligatory military service and was then employed at Cinkarna Celje, where he still finds shelter now. He lives, ekes out a living and writes in Celje, looking out on a car park, which became a building site and then reverted back to a car park again.
He is the current president of the Celje Literary Society and has published in various literary journals in Slovenia, as well as collections abroad (see the list below). He is the author of more than 20 printed books, as well as a number in digital format. He has also served as the co-editor of the only two anthologies of Slovene fantasy literature, published after 2010, and the editor of the anthology Testimonies of Other Worlds, a selection from the first ten issues of the journal Supernova. The anthology also appeared in Serbian and is the first such Slovene anthology to appear in a Foreign language.
Since 2016 he has been the editor of Supernova, the only Slovene journal of fantasy literature. He is an active promoter of quality fantasy literature, one of the highest profile literary genres in Slovenia.
Since 2017 he has been the president of the organising committee of Fanfest, the only Slovene festival of fantasy literature, which was first held in that year.
In the roles outlined above, he attends various events in the region, where he promotes Slovene speculative fiction (fantasy fiction in the broadest sense of the word).
His stories have been translated into a number of languages and published in foreign publications.
About Dominik Lenarčič
Assistant of Editor-&-Chief & Editor of english editions
Dominik Lenarčič was born 1 day before the 13th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. This is probably the most credible explanation for his fascination by the horrific and morbid. Until secondary school, he never exhibited any particular aptitude for poetry and prose. When he joined the editorial board of the school’s English newspaper, his gift was revealed. When he entered uni, he chose a more book-oriented field of study and threw himself into the literary rapids. He has published his concise and spicy writings in the magazines Novi zvon/Nebulae, Sejalec, Vpogled, Mentor and Supernova and on the website pesem.si. He is also a literary critic and the recipient of the Mentor Feferon Award in 2020 for the best protest poem of the year. Since 2023, he is the assistant editor of Supernova. Among the authors of fantasy literature, he likes Stephen King and the writers of classic dystopias (Zamyatin, Huxley, Orwell, …) the most. He also liked that one short story by Andy Weir. If you read at least one of his works, you will make his day.