#Ukrainian writers

[valya-dudycz-lupescu]

How Amazing Could This Ukrainian SFF Anthology Get?

On September 1, we launched a Kickstarter to fund Embroidered Worlds, an anthology of fantastic fiction from Ukraine and the diaspora. We are working to spread the word far and wide about this collection of Ukrainian authors, many of whom have never been translated into English before.

The more people we can reach during the Kickstarter campaign, the more incentives we can unlock to make this book even more special!

If we reach our $30,000 goal, we will hire three Ukrainian artists to create interior illustrations, and include those in all editions of the book. At $50,000 we will make available a limited-edition, numbered hardcover, with art prints of the cover and illustrations that can be framed.

HOW AMAZING WOULD IT BE TO HAVE ILLUSTRATED, LIMITED-EDITION NUMBERED HARDCOVERS WITH ART PRINTS!?!

We raised $10,000 in 4 days. Can we double that in a week?

Embroidered Worlds is scheduled for publication in December 2023. Anyone wishing to join in supporting the book has until Sept. 30 to do so, at levels ranging from a $1 ebook order to a $1,000 benefactor gift.

I invite you to follow the link and order your copy of Embroidered Worlds, and please spread the word to other readers who might like to add it to their libraries. For $20 you can order a paperback edition and also get an e-book copy!

Between readers of imaginative fiction and supporters of Ukraine, the potential audience for this book is large and diverse. Please support and share as you can!

Thank you to everyone who has pledged and shared so far! (If you have ideas how to spread the word, reach out. I welcome your ideas!)

[cuttysarkmag]

Happy Independence Day from your friends at Cutty Sark. On this day, we'd also like to remember those in countries and situations that do not grant them full sovereignty. We ask that you please remember those in Gaza and Ukraine who are fighting for freedom--with their protests, with their survival, with their words. We remember the writers who have been killed. Here are just a handful: Heba Abu Nada, Refaat Alareer, and Inas al-Saqa in Gaza; Victoria Amelina, Maksym Kryvtsov and Volodymyr Vakulenko in Ukraine. We remember the writers who refuse to allow the genocide and injustice to go unrecorded: Stanislav Aseev's Isolation : Dispatches From Occupied Donbas, Yevgenia Belorusets' Lucy Breaks, (UKR) Rashid Khalidi's The Hundred Years' War on Palestine, Noor Hindi's Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow., and Suad Amiry's Mother of Strangers. (PAL)

Additionally, we'd also like to highlight Writers Against the War on Gaza.

[russianreader]

Julia Stakhivska: Books in the Firing Line in Ukraine

Julia Stakhivska After talking to relatives in Kharkiv, once again shelled by Russia, and hearing news of the missile strike on one of Ukraine’s largest printing plants, I touch the bindings of the books on my shelves. I think about how many of them were printed in that same city, now very much on the frontlines again. This time it was not only transport and urban infrastructure that were…

[folklorespring]

by Victoria Amelina, translated from Ukrainian by Anatoly Kudryavitsky

[hummingbird-hunter]

Tankies really have one argument to defend their genocide denial and that is "western sources are propaganda and you can't trust them". Ah, yes, the most westernest of sources, my Ukrainian grandma.

[gaiagrin]

book cover of The Spirit of the Times by Nataliya Kobrynska

[yourdailyqueer]

Sydor Rey (deceased)

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Bisexual

DOB: 6 September 1908 

DOD: 15 November 1979

Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish

Nationality: Polish / American

Occupation: Writer, poet

Note: Could also be Ukrainian as was born there and studied in Lviv

[ihopeinevergetsoberr]

THIS IS SO ME. “sorry your viktor requests are taking so long guys, my city got bombed and i didn’t have the energy to continue writing after a three hour long air raid alarm”

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Victoria Amelina

Victoria Amelina was born in 1986 in Lviv, Ukraine. Amelina's debut novel was published in 2014. Her 2017 novel Dom's Dream Kingdom was shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature and the UNESCO City of Literature Prize. In 2021, Amelina received the Joseph Conrad Literary Award from the Polish Institute in Kyiv. Her work has been translated into several languages, including German, English, Italian, and Polish. During the war in Ukraine, Amelina set her writing aside to work for the human rights group Truth Hounds, traveling to liberated areas to record the testimonies of witnesses and survivors of Russian crimes.

Victoria Amelina died in 2023 at the age of 37 from injuries sustained in a missile strike.

[incarnadin3]

For my awesome followers and anyone else who might see this.

Hi my beautiful followers and all others. Idk why I'm posting this rn, (I think I'm ovulating), but I just wanted to let y'all know that you guys matter. If you're sad, here's a BIG FAT and JUICY hug! And if you're not...here's another BIG FAT and JUICY hug! If you're depressed, know that things will get better, and if you're not, continue to stay happy, and remember to stay strong when tough times come. If you're suicidal, remember that you matter. You had a one in (I forgot how many million) chance of being born. And you were born. It doesn't matter if you believe in Jesus, Allah, Ram, Satan, or a different god or no god, you're still a human and you DESERVE to live. Life isn't always smooth, and you gotta be ready to face hard times. But remember, don't listen to the people who say "Stop crying, you can't change what has happened". CRY. CRY ALL YOU WANT. LET IT OUT. If you feel like no one is there for you... I AM. If you're lonely, TALK TO ME!!!! You deserve to LIVE AND LAUGH.

Thank you for listening to me yap.

P.S if you're in war rn, things will get better. I love each and every one of you, and I pray everyday that peace will happen. I'm terribly sorry if you have lot someone in the war. I hope you know how much that person loves you. They are watching you from the stars, and may they rest in peace 🕊. I am here for you all. If you're ever lonely, feel free to message me on my blog, and we can chat. I love you all❤

[orchard-bliss]

Mariana Savka, “Somewhere On The Shore Of Days”; tr. from the Ukrainian by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk

[cookie01061]

Decided to rewrite the ILLUSION424 lore cuz yeah… I hated it…

Bunnbi who was the only conscious being in the game while everyone else were objects, Bunnbi was living in the digital world for years, never realizing that they were ACTUALLY in digital world until now…

Bunnbi woke up in black empty space with nothing but a weird looking figure infront. Bunnbi had no idea what was happening since they lost ALL of their memories and reicarnated in empty black space. “Figure” explains Bunnbi everything what was happening in their world and why are they here, that figure doesn’t introduce themselves to Bunnbi, why? The reason is unknown, I mean… not like “not introducing themselves at all” they just said their name and nothing else – “Flasker”

Flasker explained Bunnbi why are they here and what was happening in the “digital world”, the “digital world” was getting deleted since it was full of models and textures that contained viruses and trojans, it had these since it was just created. Although… Bunnbi couldn’t remember anything from that, and turns out, that Flasker stole their memories – “your memories are just useless bunch of pixels, time to return to reality and forget…”

The tasks and puzzles were assigned to Bunnbi by Flasker, starting off with simple-ish tasks and ending up with harder, to make the Bunnbi stronger and more powerful and the final challenge required to Bunnbi to destroy the universe with the abilities and powers they gained from other tasks.

Flasker used to be one of the “gods of the triverse” and was one of the most powerful ones, tasks were assigned to the aswell, like destroying planets and whole universes, even almost destroyed the triverse… but after the failed challenge, more universe’s appeared in triverse, some of them united and it was hard for them to continue, so they of course gave up, not realizing what will happen next…

After the defeat, Flasker loses all their abilities and powers, causing them to shrink and got sent to the black empty space and becoming the owner of the black emptiness… they were suffering alone in nothingness for millions of years until they met Bunnbi, assigning them to become the next “Flaudient” By the way… Flaudient is Flasker’s real name… they called themselves “Flasker” because of the defeat that caused them to forget their name and most of their memories except the memories of the “versecide” and “planetcide”, so they suggested Bunnbi to become the next triverse god to create utopia for “Flasker”, gaining ability and powers by challenging the tasks in other spaces of triverse…

To be continued…

[mrsheo]

З днем народження чудового письменника і волонтера Євгена Ліра! ✨

[fatehavtarsingh]

Pre-release of the song 'Sunrise'

by me and in collaboration with Phrank ROC Recordings

Words of gratitude and respect for Pheezyks Ayo

Please click on the appropriate links to listen to the music:

SoundCloud & Bandcamp

Social ╱ Motivating Hip-Hop ╱ Trap song ╱ Trap beat ╱ Lyrics ╱ Ukraine music from Kyiv city ╱ Released Dec 5, 2023

Lyrics by 𝗙𝗮𝘁𝗲(𝗵)

Beat ('poison') by the hills collective

Cover, Artwork by Andrej Gojda

[folklorespring]

by Artem Dovhopolyi

[deadpanwalking]