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The School of Literary Practices is an independent, avant-garde, Russian-language creative writing program, which has already shaped the literature of Russian millennials. It was founded to offer an alternative to aspiring writers in Russia. The school addresses itself to those who seek to develop new and unique voices, thematic elements, and approaches for describing contemporary realities of the past, present, and future in literary form. This talk will be given by the co-founders of the school: award-winning novelist Evgenia Nekrasova will discuss Russia’s younger generation of literary authors and emergent trends in their writing today, while professor and curator Tatiana Novoselova will speak on the broader topic of how the book industry is managing as a whole in contemporary Russia.
Evgenia “Jenya” Nekrasova is a Russophone writer and poet. Her works explore themes of corporeality, power, and violence, and she writes about women in today's Russia, often with reference to folklore and magic. She is the author of five collections of short stories and two novels, including Katya and Kikimora (2018) and Skin (2022). Nekrasova has been awarded both the NOS/Wanderer Prize and the Lyceum Prize for Young Russian Authors, and her novels and short stories have been translated into English, Czech, Latvian and Italian. In 2025 she published two new books: a collection of short stories in Baba Yaga’s Advocate, and a personal and documentary project on the murdered journalist Dmitry Kholodov. She also serves as co-founder and teacher at the independent, Moscow-based School of Literary Practices, which offers a unique, avant-garde Creative Writing Program to young aspiring writers in the region.
Tatiana Novoselova is the co-founder and director of the Moscow-based, independent School of Literary Practices, as well as the director of graduate studies in the Department of Sociocultural Project Management at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences. Holding degrees in Museum and Cultural Management, she is a curator of cultural projects and teaches courses on project management, cultural heritage and innovation, and industrial legacy. Novoselova is also an author, and she has published numerous articles on sociocultural design, museum and library technologies, architecture, literature and performance art, and the development of creative industries in Russia’s regional capitals. She has won several grants and awards and has held teaching positions abroad at the University of Liverpool and at the Queen’s University of Belfast.
