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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
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.
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
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,
Letters, Maps, and a Handful of Laurels
There are weeks when the universe feels like it’s conspiring in whispers; April was one of them. On an otherwise ordinary Tuesday my inbox produced
Writing Workshop This Saturday
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
Join Me – A Conversation on Writing Between Worlds
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.
Building Worlds Beyond the Known – Join Me for an Evening of Fictional Cartography
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
Recognition Across Borders
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