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What is Mora’s Box?
Morina kutija, or Mora’s Box in literal translation in English, is a Croatian online literary magazine for speculative fiction. Our main focus is to publish stories and comics by local and regional authors and to share our love for speculative fiction with the rest of the Croatian and Croatian-speaking audience. In addition to fiction, we publish reviews, recommendations and essays. We also have a YouTube channel for live streams and book discussions, and a SFERA-award winning podcast, Mora FM, where we talk about writing, publishing, and speculative fiction in general.
While we mostly publish in Croatian and similar languages (that don’t need a translation for the Croatian audience), we also publish stories, comics, and reviews in English and are open for non-Croatian writers to submit their work to us.
We are a fan based site and all of our work is currently done on a volunteer basis. We do this out of our passion for writing, reading and publishing. And we just like to talk a lot about these topics, okay?
Who is in the box? (Editorial team)
Antonija Mežnarić is a Croatian writer and editor who lives and breathes speculative fiction. She writes queer horror and fantasy, mostly inspired by South Slavic folklore, which is evident in her queer folk horror collection The Lost Treasure Hunters and Other Tales of Folk Terrors, several published horror novellas, various short stories in anthologies and magazines, and the dark urban fantasy novel From the Cradle to the Grave (English ed. coming in Fall 2024). You can follow her book ramblings on hauntednarratives.com or on Instagram and TikTok @antonijamezni.
Igor Rendić (1985.) is a writer and literary translator from Rijeka, Croatia. His speculative fiction ranges from sci-fi to horror and his stories have won several Croatian genre literary awards. He writes and publishes in Croatian and English, including (so far) two urban fantasy novels: A Town Called River and Seasons of the River. He is a co-founder and editorial staff member of the Morina kutija online spec-fic magazine and one of the hosts of Mora FM, a Croatian-language writing podcast. Find him @irendic on Instagram and @igor.rendic on TikTok.
Vesna Kurilić is a historical fantasy writer and werewolf-loving, skirt-making ex-librarian. Her main literary focus is reclaiming local history on behalf of non-binary, queer folks like herself, and making it accessible and relatable to readers. A native and resident of Rijeka, Croatia, she’s the author of the queer retrofuturistic mystery series Ranger Paraversum. For an archive of tips and tricks on writing and inside info, check out her blog, Skirts’n’Wolves. To get in touch, find Vesna on Twitter and Facebook or come meet the resident furry (and clawy) writer’s assistants over at her Instagram.
Lea Katarina Gobec is an avid reader, writer, and an illustrator. She first started publishing fiction in 2022. Termin za godišnji, her first short story published in the third issue of Morina kutija, was a finalist for the biggest national speculative fiction award, SFERA, in 2023. The same year she got the ESFS Chrysalis Award for new authors. She also writes reviews and essays, which you can find on her Tumblr and Substack. Find her on bookstagram as @carica__ficus or follow her art blog @sintarija on IG and Tumblr.
Korin Hunjak is a multiple-award winning visual artist who focuses on illustration, comics, and design, whose short comics have been collected and published in their solo comic anthology Brodski dnevnik (2023), many of which have also been published in numerous domestic and foreign comic publications. The following year they published the comic book album Kaleidoskop in collaboration with the writer Zoran Žmirić. In addition to comics, they also work in book illustration and children’s illustration, and have created many illustrated picture books.
They were a part of the editorial team of the award-winning art and culture magazine Strip-PREFIKS from 2021 to 2025, and are involved in diverse events organized by the Hrvatski autorski strip association (Croatian association of comic authors) to promote awareness of comic culture in Croatia and beyond.
You can find their work at: korinhunjak.com or follow them at Instagram @korin.hunjak or Facebooku: https://www.facebook.com/korin.hunjak.art/
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