BULGARIA, Maria Spirova, GLAMOUR magazine

I took up journalism at the age of 18 and I cannot stop writing since then. Now I am 26 years old, however the same things as in the beginning motivate me – the need to write and to get up from the computer with the confidence that whoever reads an article of mine would not consider these 10 minutes lost time. The curiosity about the world is that incurable decease with which I would like to infect all readers. After graduating my master’s degree studies in criminology in Oxford, my focus cleared out: I have become interested in those aspects of life, of which we are either afraid too much, or not afraid sufficiently. Because of that, when I get a chance to crack a prejudice or two with writing, I do not miss it.

MACEDONIA, Dusica Nikolik

Dusica has graduated School of Journalism in Skopje in 2005 and has degree in Public Communication at the Faculty of journalism and mass communication in Sofia. Meanwhile, 4 years she has worked as a journalist in the daily newspaper Vest weekly Forum Plus, a web portal called Cyrillic and the monthly Life magazine, covering various topics, including the problem of drug abuse.

HUNGARY, Iványi Zsófia, Magyar Narancs weekly (www.mancs.hu)

I am 28 years old, I was born and I am living in Budapest. I studied sociology but i worked not a minute as a sociologist (what I think is better both for me and the society). I have been working as a journalist for three years. I publish mainly in Magyar Narancs weekly newspaper, and occasionally in other magazines (Filmvilág, film.hu, Sine Morbo). I cover mainly culture and lifestyle. My "repertoire" in culture is movies, theatre, literature, music, in lifestyle obsessive compulsive disorders, domestic violence, addictions.