Awards
My parents' flat (family archive)
Awards:
- “Extra” (short story), short-listed for contest “Summer of Emigrant”, 5th Wave magazine for Russian writers in immigration and exile, Summer 2023 (judged by Maxim Osipov), online
- “Big Time Sensuality” (short story), short-listed for contest “Pain”, London Group of Multilingual Writers competition, Winter 2023 (judged by readers), online
- “Zinger”, longlisted, Mslexia Short Story competition, Fall 2021 (judged by AL Kennedy), UK
- “Zinger”, Highly Commended List, the 2021 Sean O’Faolain International Short Story Prize, Munster Literature Center/Southword journal, Spring 2021 (judged by Simon Van Booy), Ireland
- Selection of poems, Irish Chair of Poetry Student Award, July 2020, Ireland
- “The Fur Coat”, Glimmer Train, Short story award for new writers, 2018, USA
Writing bursaries and residencies:
- Member, Hampstead Theatre Community Writer's Room (2024)
- Developing Your Creative Practice (2022), Arts Council England, grant for the research, mentorship and development of a collection of short stories
- Six-month women-short story writer's course Brief Pause (2021), Dahlia Books/UK (covering free attendance of 20+ writing workshops with leading UK short story writers, detailed feedback from the Literary Consultancy/TLC, and publication of a short story in an anthology)
- International Student Scholarship (2019), MA in Creative Writing, University College Dublin, Ireland
Craft development courses:
- "History of Russian Theatre, pre-revolution till 1930s", a workshop with Konstantin Kamenski, Spring 2024
- "Crafting a Short Story Collection", a workshop with Gaynor Jones, Comma Press, Spring 2024, online
- "Writing for Theatre", workshop led by Jennifer Davis, Hampstead Theatre/Swiss Cottage Library, February-March 2024
- “Morning Edges”, a writing workshop with Sarah Byrne, the Well Review, October 2023, online
- “Writing for Stage”, a course on basics of playwright with Sergei Davydov (Russian playwright in exile), September 2023, online
- “New Work Now”, a poetry workshop with Rachel Long, the Irish Writers Center, January-February 2023, online
- “Writing and Movement”, a fiction workshop with Elena Moscovich, National Center for Writing, September 2022, Norwich, England
- “Seeing Human”, a writing fiction course with Sarah Byrne, the Well Review, Spring 2022, online
- “Writing Home”, a fiction writing workshop with Madeline Beach Carey, the Irish Writers’ Center, September-October 2021, online
- Westport Writers’ Workshop various courses, January 2017 – July 2019, Westport, CT, USA
Other credentials:
- MA Creative Writing, University College Dublin, Ireland
- PhD Sociology, University of Virginia, USA
- MA Sociology, George Mason University, USA
- BA, English, Volgograd State University, Russia
On the 6th floor (family archive)
