News from Club Revdepov
Usually our calligraphy workshops have classes in weekends, but in the summer, we have two workshops with meetings that take place on Monday and Wednesday evenings. We made friends with Epic Bar and that is where the June workshop welcomed its apprentices. Enrollment is open until the 15th of July.
At the beginning of June we went to Vama Veche for the first creative writing workshop with writer T. O. Bobe. We plan for another one in September, send us a short story until the 10th of August if you want to come. We wrote about the workshop experience in June in Tomis Magazine.
Following the stop motion animantion workshop (new one coming up!), the first short films are ready, we invite you to watch them below.
Our communication workshop, NESTworking had an edition in June and now is traveling to Teach for Romania Leadership Academy to train future teachers.
Creative Writing Sundays had the pleasure to have Michael Haulică and Alex Tocilescu as returning guest writers. They gave feedback on the short stories written by the participants. Very soon, CWS will take a summer break and will come back in the autumn.
In the last two months something wonderful happened: some of our alumni published books! Florin Spătaru, Irina Georgescu Groza, Lili Crăciun and Cezar Pârlog published short stories collections, Simona Liutiev published a book for children, Tudor Ganea published a novel and Angelica Stan published a poetry book. We are so proud!
News from Academia Motanov
We published the short stories written by the children who participated in the creative writing workshop with Adina Rosetti that took place last spring. You can read the stories here.
News from Revista de Povestiri
Writer Adrian Schiop was the one to choose the best short stories from those gathered by our literary contest and you can read the stories he liked best and his argument here.
We recently published an interview with writer Dan Coman, who is invited at Creative Writing Sundays on the 10th of July and will also select the best short stories at our next short stories contest.
Andreea Apostu wrote two book reviews this month for Revista de Povestiri, both for poetry books – Dialectica urșilor and Cadrul 25.
Other news
Our colleague, Traian Stanciu, participated in a charitable chess competition and raised 1330 lei, money that will be used by Ajungem Mari to finance creative workshops for orphan children.