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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,

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

Unexpected Honor – On Receiving the Creativitys UK Award
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

Into the World – “Anonymous Letters” Now Available on Amazon
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.

First Critical Reception of “Anonymous Letters”
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