Division — 04
Words
Maskerad Press prints fiction, essay, correspondence, and poetry in short runs, set in typefaces drawn inside the group.
- 3 works
- Lead — Hallgrímur Sten
- Maskerad Media Group
Position
We edit fiction as if it were evidence: every sentence has to account for itself.
Books are the group's slowest medium and its memory. Most of our films and records end up here eventually.
Capabilities
- Fiction & essay publishing
- Editorial & structural editing
- Translation (SV, IS, FR, DE)
- Typeface design
- Short-run letterpress
- Live readings & performance
Words · 2025 The Forgery Manual
2025Released — Novel · 312 pp
A restorer discovers that every painting she has saved was signed by the same invisible hand.
Maskerad Press
Words · 2026 A Grammar of Smoke
2026Forthcoming — Essays · 180 pp
Twelve essays on disappearance: signal fires, redactions, and the vocabulary of things we choose not to keep.
Maskerad Press
Words · 2023 Letters to the Archivist
2023Archive — Correspondence · 96 pp
Two years of letters between a novelist and the person cataloguing her unpublished drafts.
Maskerad Press
Division lead
Hallgrímur Sten
Editor-in-Chief, Words — Reykjavík
Edits fiction as if it were evidence. Translates from four languages and argues in all of them.
Commission words