About this Event
When: March 6, 7:00 pm
Where: Library Nineteen
606 S. Ann St, Baltimore MD, 21231
This one-of-a-kind reading brings together writers from Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet countries who now make their homes across the United States. Taking place during the 2026 AWP Conference, the event celebrates a growing circle of poets, prose writers, and translators from complex, cross-cultural identities whose work is shaped by displacement and immigration, survival and resilience.
More essential than ever, nuanced storytelling is our compass toward understanding and community. Writing from and beyond histories marked by authoritarianism and censorship, the authors center free expression, creative freedom, and democratic dialogue. Through stories of reinvention, loss, and belonging, we build cultural and intergenerational bridges, reclaiming the power of connection and voice.
This reading features: Valerie Bandura, Svetlana Binshtok, Daniel Blokh, Katie Farris, Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, Katarzyna Jakubiak, Victoria Juharyan, Andrea Jurjevic, Ilya Kaminsky, Julia Kolchinsky, Maria Kuznetsova, Ellen Litman, Olga Livshin, olga mikolaivna, Asya Partan, Irina Reyn, Ena Selimović, Lucy Silbaugh, Alina Sivorinovsky Wickham, Lana Spendl, Alina Stefanescu, Natalya Sukhonos, Vlada Teper, Katherine E. Young, Tatsiana Zamirovskaya, Olga Zilberbourg, and Lena Zycinsky.
** This event is a fundraiser for Ukraine ** Free admissions ** Please arrive early to get a seat! **
This event is co-hosted by Punctured Lines, a feminist blog designed to highlight writing by those from the former Soviet Union now living in various diasporas and by those who live in the post-Soviet space.
This event is co-hosted by Turkoslavia, a translation collective and a journal celebrating literature in Turkic and Slavic languages.
Organization to Support
Ukraine Trust Chain, delivering medicine, food, power generators, and helping evacuate civilians out of war zones:
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Flyer design by Ena Selimović
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Library Nineteen, 606 South Ann Street, Baltimore, United States
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