Dear readers, For those in London next weekend, I’ll be participating in a conversation at the the dalston longe on May 7th (Wednesday) at 7pm. The evening will focus on writing across cultural and linguistic boundaries—something that has shaped my work from “Life on the Island” through “Anonymous Letters.” I’ll be discussing how displacement can […]
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What does it mean to create a world that doesn’t exist yet feels authentically inhabitable? How do we build spaces that contain both the familiar and the strange, the recognizable and the impossible? I’m delighted to invite you to a special evening discussion where I’ll be exploring the art and craft of constructing fictional universes
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Unexpected news arrives from my homeland—”Anonymous Letters” has been recognized in the 2025 Galakonkurs, Russia’s “Galactic Competition of Arts.” https://galakonkurs.ru/finalists2025.html This recognition, coming just weeks after the Creativitys UK Award, creates a strange symmetry: my work now exists as a bridge between the cultures that have shaped me. To be acknowledged in both London and
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Some news reaches you like an echo from a future you hadn’t dared imagine. Three days ago, I received word that “Anonymous Letters” has been awarded the April 2025 Creativitys UK Award (Creativity’s Prize). https://creativitys.uk/creativitys-uk-award-winner-of-april-2025/ The notification arrived while I was in Rome, sitting in a small café near the Tiber, working on preliminary notes
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After months of writing, revising, waiting, and anticipating, I can finally share the news that “Anonymous Letters” is now available to readers worldwide on Amazon. This feels like releasing a bird I’ve been nurturing—watching it take flight brings both exhilaration and a curious sense of loss as the story now belongs as much to its
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Yesterday marked a peculiar milestone in any writer’s journey—the publication of the first critical review of “Anonymous Letters.” Natalia Borissovna Ivanova’s thoughtful analysis appeared on Literary Year, and I find myself in that curious position of watching someone else dissect your creative offspring with the clinical precision of a seasoned literary surgeon. Ivanova brings considerable
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