May 2025

Saturday at Fulham Library: Testing New Ideas in Real Time

Next Saturday I’ll be at Fulham Library’s Creative Writing Group, and the timing feels deliberate. I’ve been working on several pieces that need fresh eyes—particularly a short story set in London’s underground stations and some experimental poetry exploring urban isolation themes. Writing groups offer something you can’t extract from solitary work: immediate reaction to your […]

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Reflections on “The Digital Futures of Literature” Panel

Last night’s panel at King’s College left me with more questions than answers—which feels appropriate given the subject matter. As the speakers dissected AI’s impact on literature, I found myself thinking about the uncanny parallels between machine-generated text and the mysterious letters that drive my novel “Anonymous Letters.” Dr Collett’s observation about AI’s “convincing mimicry”

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Joining “The Digital Futures of Literature” Panel Tomorrow

Tomorrow evening, I’ll be attending “The Digital Futures of Literature” event at the Strand Campus in London (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-digital-futures-of-literature). As a writer whose work often explores the boundaries between perception and reality, I find the questions raised by AI’s emergence in creative spaces particularly fascinating. The event examines how generative AI is reshaping our understanding of

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Bridging Sciences and Stories: Meeting Alexander Panchin

This past weekend, I had the wonderful opportunity to attend a talk by renowned Russian science popularizer Alexander Panchin at the London Russian Book Fair. As someone whose fiction often explores the boundaries between reality and perception, listening to a scientist who specializes in making complex concepts accessible was both enlightening and inspiring. Panchin’s presentation

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A Call to the Soul: When Critics Understand Your Heart

Yulia Tulegenova’s review of “Anonymous Letters” appeared on Creativitys.UK this week, and reading it felt like discovering someone had mapped the secret architecture of my own intentions. She calls the novel “a call to the soul” — a phrase that captures something I struggled to articulate about Anna’s journey into psychological terrain I wasn’t entirely

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When a Room Becomes a Workshop — Field Notes from the First Tarveran Salon

Yesterday evening May 4, 2025 the Royal Festival Hall let us borrow a corner of its second-floor foyer. Plenty of people gathered—some with graph-paper notebooks, others with nothing but the itch to ask “how.” We pushed the chairs close enough for ideas to hop from one sleeve to the next and began teasing apart a city that

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