Laureate of the Alimentarium short story competition Writing about food disgust
Marlise Schläpfer Heilmann grew up in eastern Switzerland. After time spent in various parts of Switzerland and Germany, she settled in Aargau, the home of her maternal ancestors. She has been writing letters and diaries ever since she learned how to write and now, since she retired, columns, short stories and autobiographical passages too. This is the first time she has entered a writing competition.
Yunlong Song was born in Yantai, P. R. China. He studied Arabic, international relations and journalism at Beijing Foreign Studies University. Later he got his M.A. in film from Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Since 2008, he has been involved in many Swiss university exchange programmes, and worked for intercultural workshops and arts projects.
Artist, Urban gardener, Community organizer, Activist
Juliet K. Stone’s work includes more than three decades as a community organizer and activist. It includes working with over 120 community gardens and the renovation of 80+ Boston Public schoolyards into new play spaces whose design model incorporated outdoor teaching and learning into the scheme.
