Hekseskolen was started as an experimental writing school and reading group in 2015 in Copenhagen by Johanne Lykke Holm and Olga Ravn.
Olga Ravn, born 1986, is a danish writer and translator. Ravn studied at Forfatterskolen in Copenhagen. She made her debut 2012 with Jeg æder mig selv som lyng (Gyldendal), and last year she released Celestine (Gyldendal, 2015), for which she received the Michael Strunge Prize. Ravn has also translated among others Ann Jäderlund and Sylvia Plath into danish.
Johanne Lykke Holm, born 1987, is a danish-swedish writer and translator. She studied Litterär Gestaltning at Valand Academy in Gotheburg. Lykke Holm has translated among other Yahya Hassan, Josefine Klougart and Maja Lee Langvad into Swedish.
The event with Hekseskolen is part of the exhibition program Mad Horizon by John Skoog and Emanuel Röhss.