A competition has been announced for scholarships for semester and one-year workshops at Creative Writing School. Fellows will study with renowned authors at the expense of the school or receive a 50% discount. Applications are accepted until August 29.

This year the leading full-time workshops will be: Olga Slavnikova, Marina Stepnova, Olga Breininger, Egor Appolonov, Dmitry Danilov, as well as young writers Arina Boyko, Natalia Kalinnikova, Denis Bannikov and Anna Linskaya. There will also be long webinars on translation from French and English, editing, fiction and poetry. These workshops also host a competition for free tuition.

List of face-to-face workshops

We are writing the first play (Dmitry Danilov)

Prose for beginners (Olga Slavnikova)

Literary mastery. Basics (Denis Bannikov, Anna Linskaya)

How to write and edit (from non-fiction to novel) (Egor Appolonov)

Autofix: how to write about your experience (Arina Boyko, Natalia Kalinnikova)

Prose for continuing students (Olga Slavnikova)

New reality: how to be a writer and blogger (Olga Breininger)

Semester webinars

Writing Science Fiction: From Myth to Dystopia (Maria Galina)

"It's scary to reread ...": how to add and edit your text (Elena Kholmogorova)

Literary translation from French (Vera Milchina)

Translation of fiction and popular science text (Alexandra Borisenko, Igor Mokin)

At the end of the course, you will receive a certificate of participation in your chosen workshop.

If the master recommends your text, it will be published in the electronic journal "Arable land". The finalist texts, selected based on the results of all the workshops of the year, are published annually in the form of a collection.

Recommendations to other publications are also possible. The texts of the schoolchildren were published in the "Editors of Elena Shubina", "Eksmo", "Bombor", on "Gorky", in "Literature" and many other sites.

The full list of competitions for free training can be found here

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