Literary Laboratory for Teens: Open Call

The Mystetskyi Arsenal announces an Open Call for participation in the literary laboratory for teens. If you are between 14 and 18 years old, you like making up stories, you enjoy reading, writing poetry or prose, you want to understand how a story is built, scripts are created or books are published, you look for a community and space for development—join us!

From November 2024 to June 2025, we will gather every Saturday to explore and create literature, to look for our own words and ways to talk about this world. We will invite writers, illustrators, translators, publishers to tea, will attend book festivals and presentations, and in the spring we will prepare our own special program from teens for Book Arsenal.

For whom: teens aged 14-18
When: every Saturday from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. (the date of the first lesson will be announced after the selection is completed).

Fill out the form at the link and wait for the invitation from curators. We will select 15 most motivated teens to participate in the laboratory.

The program partner of the project—NGO Bez probiliv.

The application deadline—November 24.

Curator of the teens’ laboratory:

Yuliia Konopliana is a project manager of Book Arsenal, literary scholar, editor. She has been teaching creative writing for teens since 2015. Curator of the Workshop of Stories teens’ writing studio (2015-2019), the Teenside.Bokmol editorial office (2019-2021), the Creative Workshops for Teens project in cooperation with the Khanenko Museum (2024). Jury member of the teens’ writing contests Antytvir (2023, 2024) and bezprobiliv (2021).