Events

On June 10th, 2025, I hosted “Poetry Evening with Anastasia Dubinina” at Queen Mary University — an intimate exploration of what happens when Russian memory collides with English present, creating something entirely new in the collision. This wasn’t just a poetry reading; it was a conversation about linguistic resistance and cultural reclamation. As I shared […]

Join me on June 10th at QMUL Arts One for an evening exploring poetry as cultural translation. Reserve your spot here. What happens when you write about London in Russian, then translate your own nostalgia into English? When the fog of a Brighton morning carries echoes of Petersburg snow? Poetry becomes archaeology—digging through layers of

Sunday mornings in Hampstead carry a particular quality of quiet anticipation. At Waterstones on the High Street, the “Write Together” session transformed the bookshop’s familiar browsing space into something more intimate—a temporary writing sanctuary where strangers gathered to work in companionable silence. The format proved refreshingly straightforward. No forced introductions or prescribed exercises, just the

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

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”

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

For those in London this Saturday (May 3rd) – I’ll be joining the cozy “Writing @ the Laundrette” session at Tell It Better’s cozy space on 4 Chapel Market (Chapel Market Roastery) from 9:15am. The concept is beautifully simple: writers of all levels gather to work in shared silence before connecting afterward—a rare opportunity to

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