Hela Press

Hela Press publishes books that are a meeting place for literature and art. Its catalogue features poetry, prose, and essays, along with experimental formats that explore the relationship between image, performance and text. Embracing the paperback tradition at the heart of public engagement, Hela Press' inaugural series is at once conceptual and graspable, widely available and intimate. Press publishes authors from diverse backgrounds, including artists, writers, and researchers, from around the world.
Hela Press was founded in London in 2025 by Helena Czernecka. The series is designed by Teo Schifferli.
Hela Press is jointly running a publishing program with ISOLARII.
 
London
 
9 titles
 
Enis Maci - Eiscafé Europa
2025
English edition
forthcoming
What can resistance look like today? In search of an answer, Enis Maci draws a line from Jeanne D'Arc via Sophie Scholl to the Albanian Sworn Virgins.
Taras Gembik - The Infinite Now
2025
English edition
forthcoming
In The Infinite Now, Taras Gembik crafts an intimate meditation on solitude, faith, and the search for meaning, ten years in the making. Moving between Ukraine and Poland, these twenty-five poems trace a decade-long journey of self-discovery.
Katja Petrowskaja - The Photograph Looked Back at Me
2026
English edition
forthcoming
The Photograph Looked Back at Me is a series of prose miniatures, each born from an image the author cannot turn away from: a ghostly plant printed in a book about Chernobyl; a miner's face obscured by smoke, hanging in a Kyiv gallery; a picture of Katja Petrowskaja's parents, from an old family album.
Théo Casciani - Retina
2026
English edition
forthcoming
A novel about the coming-of-age of a gaze.
Filipka Rutkowska - Gender is Over
2026
English edition
forthcoming
Gender is Over is a story about Warsaw's queer art scene at the turn of the 2010s and 2020s, written from the inside.
Matthieu Peck - Descent to Bahia
2026
English edition
forthcoming
The English translation of Matthieu Peck's third novel, in which he confirms his talent as a stylist.
Imani Mason Jordan - Pivot
2026
English edition
forthcoming
Pivot is an experimental, book-length poem exploring the profound act of "turning", with the Haitian Revolution as its cornerstone.
Zuzanna Bartoszek - 36 Rooms
2026
English edition
forthcoming
A collection of poetic, dreamlike and synesthetic texts by the Polish writer and artist.
 Jeff Wall Production - Wikipedia page submission for Draft
2026
English edition
forthcoming
An unapproved Wikipedia draft authored under the conceptual label Jeff Wall Production, initiated by curator and essayist Pierre Bal-Blanc.
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