"Shipwrecked" - Celebrating the 300th anniversary of Robinson Crusoe

"Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe was first published 300 years ago on 25th April 1719. In honour of the much loved classic, the Museum of Walking organised a flash fiction competition. The eight winning stories were published in this delightful anthology by Sampson Low publishers, London.
I am thrilled to announce that my story "The Return" was one of the winners!

Vereinigung

Honoured that der Tagesspiegel selected my story "Unification" to appear in their 22 July issue. "Vereinigung" by Nora Nadjarian, translated into German by Gregor Dotzauer.

Flash & Poetry

Exciting things happened in June and July! My poetry appeared in Hebrew translation for the first time in Oh! literary magazine, Israel. Special thanks to editors Dory Manor and Sivan Beskin, and translator Meitar Kurman.

Oh! Literary magazine, Tel Aviv

I was invited to take part in the Flash Fiction Festival in Bristol. I was involved in readings, led a successful creative writing workshop on "The Hidden Creative Territories of Photos and Postcards" and was part of the "Flash around the World" panel. Meanwhile, news came that my modern take on Robinson Crusoe was one of the winners of the flash competition celebrating the 300th anniversary of the classic and will be included in Shipwrecked, a limited edition anthology, published by Sampson Low Publishers. I also read at the open mic session of Lines on the Wall – a poetry and performance event in Manchester, where I met T.S.Eliot Prize winning poet Philip Gross, and (finally!) the acclaimed short story writer and poet Tania Hershman.

Flash Fiction Festival 2019

In July, I was invited to take part in Rewriting the Map - a festival dedicated to the literature, art and urban planning in divided cities of Europe - organised by Literarisches Colloquium, Berlin. A fantastic experience!

Rewriting the Map

Shortlisted!

Delighted to be shortlisted in the New Zealand Flash Fiction Day Micro competition with my story "On the Other Hand".
22 stories for 22 days... and my story was shortlisted on Bloomsday.

Art by Suus Agnes, Swimming sperm of algae and moss

HAY FESTIVAL EUROPA28: VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF EUROPE

 

 

Hay Festival announced this week the selection of women writers, artists and scientists taking part in a new global project reimagining the future of Europe. I am thrilled to have been selected! 

I am honoured to be one of these 28 women, one from each European country, representing a multi-disciplinary snapshot of the best minds of our time - including novelist Leïla Slimani, entrepreneur Hilary Cottam, activist Janne Teller and actress Lisa Dwan.  Our short stories and essays will be published in the anthology, Europa28: Visions for the Future, edited by Sophie Hughes and Sarah Cleave (Comma Press, UK).  

More exciting news to follow!  


   

Reading Balkans

April 2019

  

 

 

Writer-in-Residence at Goga residency, Novo mesto, Slovenia.
A beautiful experience.

Writing Against the Grain

 

 

 

"Writing Against the Grain: Contemporary English-language Fiction by Women Around the World"

 

Chapter One The Dilemmas and Struggles of Female Intellectuals and Artists:
Reading Anita Brookner’s Falling Slowly (Britain)

 

Chapter Two On the Exploration of an Authentic Female Self through Transgressive Sexuality and Its Limits: Reading Claire Keegan’s “Antarctica”(Ireland)

 

Chapter Three Making Connections among Unconnectable Fellow Women: Reading Nora Nadjarian’s “Exhibition”(Cyprus)

 

Chapter Four In Defiance of the Confining Law of the Islamic Father: Reading Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul (Turkey)

 

Chapter Five Seeking for a Home of One’s Own: Reading Marilynn Robinson’s Housekeeping (United States)