Essay Editing Workshop with Soapbox Journal
A Printed Matters event
- Date
- 23 February 2026
- Time
- 17:00 -19:00
- Location
- BG 3
- Room
- VOX-POP
Join us on February 23 and get advice on how to edit academic texts from Soapbox Journal. Please bring excerpts from your own texts (up to 1,000 words).
About Soapbox
Soapbox is an independent, open-access, student-run publishing platform, operating both in print as a peer-reviewed journal and online. Soapbox advocates for multiplicity, encouraging submissions of creative, experimental, and boundary-pushing works, alongside traditional essays, offering differing perspectives on cultural objects, concepts, and phenomena. The floor is open to students, graduate, and early career researchers, as well as writers and creatives from various backgrounds.
About Printed Matters
Printed Matters: The Politics and Aesthetics of Independent Publications invites you to experience independent publishing as both an intimate and political practice. Bringing together books, zines, magazines, and other self-published experiments, the exhibition explores how printed matter can function as a site of resistance, experimentation, and alternative knowledge production where aesthetics are inseparable from politics.
Throughout its duration, the exhibition remains active through workshops on printmaking, editing, and publishing, transforming the space into a living learning environment: part exhibition, part fair, part communal gathering.
Practical information
This programme will take place at VOX-POP, ground floor (Binnengasthuisstraat 9).
The event is free of charge and open to all, but we do kindly ask you to register in advance. Unable to make it? Please let us know due to limited capacity.
Julia Kobielska (she/her) is a young and ambitious student from Łódź, Poland. After falling in love with literature during her Bachelors in Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, she is now deepening this love during the RMA in Literary Studies. She’s been a part of Soapbox for over two years, and edited two issues of the journal. She re-launched the (Un)Box the Soap Podcast, and now she is part of the Events team.
Trent Anderson (he/him) is a Co-Editor in Chief of Soapbox, an RMA student in Cultural Analysis at the UvA and a former high school English teacher. His research focuses on authorship and narrative theory in contemporary writing, especially the genre of printed lectures. Trent is thrilled by the editorial practice as an opportunity to dwell with others’ writing and to explore the most precise forms for their thoughts.
Stepan Laštuvka (he/him) is a recent graduate from the RMA in Media, Art, and Performance Studies at Utrecht University. This program also led Stepan to participate as an editor and PR/Communications member at the Soapbox Journal for Cultural Analysis for the past year. Stepan is interested in editing as a form of collaborative praxis in the context of cultural analysis and the broader humanities.
Printed Matters curator
Zoi Psimmenou is an interdisciplinary researcher, curator, and exhibition designer with a background in architecture and a MA in Museum Studies from the University of Amsterdam. Rooted in decolonial thinking, critical museology and participatory approaches, her work explores how exhibition making, curatorial practice, and public programming can unsettle authoritative power structures and foster critical, socially engaged exhibition experiences. She continues this inquiry through the public programme Spatial Encounters and the exhibition Printed Matters as Resident Programme Curator at VOX-POP.
