Ulyanovsk poet and writer Danila Nozdryakov took part in the VIII All-Russian Literary Festival named after Mikhail Anishchenko, which was held from 18 to 20 September in the Samara region.

The festival participants were poets, prose writers, playwrights, children's writers and organizers of the literary process aged 18 to 35 - about 100 people from different regions of Russia - from Moscow and St. Petersburg to the Far East. This year's festival program includes literary workshops, seminars, a literary tournament, interactive platforms and a special block for the organizers of the literary process.

- I worked in poetry seminar No. 1, which was led by Maxim Zamshev, editor of the Literaturnaya Gazeta, Dmitry Murzin, executive secretary of the Ogni Kuzbass magazine, and Svetlana Churaeva, deputy editor-in-chief of the Belskie Prostory magazine (Ufa). Two poets and a prose writer. It is always very interesting to look at your poems through the eyes of other people, to hear their point of view, often critical. This helps to understand what you are doing, agree on something, and sometimes even argue with the masters. And of course, it is necessary to say about the special atmosphere of the festival, which takes place on the banks of the Volga in the picturesque Zhiguli mountains, - said Danila Nozdryakov.

Danila Nozdryakov was born in 1986 in Ulyanovsk. Graduated from Ulyanovsk State University, worked as a teacher of philosophy and history, now a journalist. He was on the long list of the Pushkin Lyceum Literary Prize, became the winner of the Verlibre international literary competition, a diploma winner of the international Voloshin competition, a participant in the Lypki international forum of young writers and a seminar of the Moscow Writers' Union. In 2020, the famous Moscow publishing house Voymega published Danila's debut book of poems, The Volga Children's Republic.

Ulyanovsk poets Ekaterina Bogdanova and Alexander Bukharin, prose writer Anastasia Mironova also took part in the festival.

Among those who acted as leaders of the seminars were: the famous Russian writer, the winner of the National Best Prize, the author of the bestsellers Thirst, Steppe Gods and Cold, Andrey Gelasimov (he recently became a guest of the Amphibrach literary festival in Ulyanovsk), author of books about Tanya Grotter, Methodius Buslaev and the School of Divers Dmitry Yemets and poet, translator, editor-in-chief of the OGI publishing house Maxim Amelin.

The organizers of the event are SOUNB and the Samara regional organization of young writers with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Samara region. The event is implemented within the framework of the National project “Culture.