Name: Passionate Thinking in Diaspora with Writers from Ukraine, Russia, and Moldova
Start: 2024-10-26T17:00:00-0700
End: 2024-10-26T18:00:00-0700

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One of the most anticipated literary nights of the year, Lit Crawl SF brings together authors and fans for the world’s largest FREE pop-up literary extravaganza! Check out our full schedule of 60+ events below.

Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT

Manny’s

We’re a group of immigrant writers with roots in the former Soviet Union coming together to share writing about our home countries, immigrant communities, complicated identities, and more. War continues to shape our stories, and so does food, nature, parenthood, and love. Passionately told, these stories nourish our communal resilience.

Speakers

Nina Rodenko

Nina Rodenko is the winner of the 2022 Clark-Gross Scholarship Award for her debut novel, The United Selves of Veronica, which is currently in its final draft. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Bookstr, Prometheus Dreaming, and Watershed Review. Born in Ukraine, Nina now... Read More →

Karolina Letunova

Karolina Letunova grew up in Western Siberia. She has an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan. Her work appears or is forthcoming in AGNI, The Cincinnati Review, The Kenyon Review, The Threepenny Review. She is a 2023-2024 California Arts Council... Read More →

Maggie Levantovskaya

Maggie Levantovskaya is a writer and Teaching Professor in the English department at Santa Clara University. She was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and grew up in San Francisco. Her creative nonfiction and journalism have appeared in The Rumpus, Michigan Quarterly Review, Longreads, Catapult... Read More →

Margarita Meklina

Leningrad-born Margarita Meklina now faces the situation when her current publisher, NLO, is afraid to print her work due to the expanded anti-LGBTQ laws. Her earlier book, written in collaboration with Lida Yusupova, LOVE HAS FOUR HANDS, was removed from Russian bookstores due to... Read More →

Yuliya Patsay

Yuliya Patsay is a Soviet-born, San Francisco-raised, teller of stories- most of which are at least half true.She loves rolling fog, dim sum and a receptive audience. She lives in “Little Russia” with her husband, two kids, and enough mishpuha close by to keep her wildly ente... Read More →

Tatyana Sundeyeva

Tatyana Sundeyeva is a writer originally from Moldova. She has published short fiction and essays in Fractured Literary, Oyster River Pages, Cleaver, and Hadassah Magazine. Her story about the civil war in Moldova was nominated for Best Microfiction 2023. You can find her at Taty... Read More →

Sasha Vasilyuk

Sasha Vasilyuk is a journalist and author of a debut novel, Your Presence Is Mandatory (Bloomsbury) that will also come out in Italy, France, Germany, Finland, Israel and Brazil. Her nonfiction has been published in the New York Times, CNN, Harper’s Bazaar, KQED, and elsewhere... Read More →

Olga Zilberbourg

Olga Zilberbourg’s LIKE WATER AND OTHER STORIES (WTAW Press) explores “bicultural identity hilariously, poignantly,” according to The Moscow Times and deals with bisexuality and immigrant parenthood. Zilberbourg co-moderates the San Francisco Writers Workshop and is a co-founder... Read More →

Saturday October 26, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Manny’s 3092 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

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