H O L L Y
G R A M A Z I O
Our session with the author, game designer and curator Holly Gramazio at the House of Koko in May 2026.
Holly's novel 'The Husbands', a comedy about a woman whose attic starts generating an infinite supply of husbands, was a New York Times bestseller, and is currently being adapted by A24 as a limited series for Apple TV, starring Juno Temple in the lead role.
Within games,Hollye founded the experimental games festival 'Now Play This', wrote the script for the award-winning indie videogame 'Dicey Dungeons', collaborated with Bernie De Koven on his final book 'The Infinite Playground' for MIT Press, and put together a zine collecting essays about play during the pandemic.
Her project 'House Rules' is currently on display at the Young V&A.
She has a PhD in creative writing from Adelaide University.
Holly's Instagram
www.instagram.com/holly_gramazio
Session moderated by Susanna Davies-Crook
Photography by Matt Maude
T H E E X E R C I S E
'Writing is just playing a game, and all games have rules'
Take three cards and write a 'Form' (poem, prose, screenplay, news report, letter of complaint etc) onto one, a 'Subject' onto another and a 'Constraint' on the last one.
Place each onto a file marked 'Form', 'Subject' and 'Constraint'. After a quick shuffle, pick one 'Form', 'Subject' and 'Constraint' card at random. Write a piece featuring the 'Subject' and 'Constraint' within the chosen 'Form'.
