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At our Writers’ Conference in November, Valeria Vescina offered to organise regular meetings for writers who reside in cantons distant from Geneva and who therefore can’t easily attend events there. The next online sessions will be on Wednesday 1 April and Thursday 7 May. She is also organizing in-person sessions on Sunday 8 March in Zurich from 11:00 to 16:00 and Sunday 7 June (place tbd – likely Basel, Bern or Lucerne). Dates for the second half of the year will be announced in due course. Thank you to Valeria for her proactivity in building community! When? Wednesday 1 April, Thursday 7 May at 20:00 Where? Online FOR GWG MEMBERS ONLY! Cost: Free Who is the leader? Valeria Vescina is an author, reviewer and creative-writing tutor. from Puglia (Italy). She was educated in Switzerland and the UK, and lived in London most of her life, before settling back in Switzerland. After a successful career in management, she gained an MA in Creative & Life Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her first novel, "That Summer in Puglia" (Eyewear Publishing), was launched at the FTWeekend Oxford Literary Festival 2018 and has had three print runs. She has just finished my second book, "Habit of Disobedience", a tale inspired by real-life events in sixteenth-century Southern Italy. Her short story "Pianissimo" appearead on the Royal Philharmonic Society’s website; "The Bonfire" was the runner-up in a Cazart flash fiction competition; "Accidental Musicians" featured at The Vortex’s ‘Words & Jazz’. She also organizes writing retreats in the Bernese Oberland.
At our Writers’ Conference in November, Valeria Vescina offered to organise regular meetings for writers who reside in cantons distant from Geneva and who therefore can’t easily attend events there.
The next online sessions will be on Wednesday 1 April and Thursday 7 May.
She is also organizing in-person sessions on Sunday 8 March in Zurich from 11:00 to 16:00 and Sunday 7 June (place tbd – likely Basel, Bern or Lucerne).
Dates for the second half of the year will be announced in due course.
Thank you to Valeria for her proactivity in building community!
When? Wednesday 1 April, Thursday 7 May at 20:00
Where? Online
FOR GWG MEMBERS ONLY!
Cost: Free
Who is the leader?
Valeria Vescina is an author, reviewer and creative-writing tutor. from Puglia (Italy). She was educated in Switzerland and the UK, and lived in London most of her life, before settling back in Switzerland.
After a successful career in management, she gained an MA in Creative & Life Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Her first novel, "That Summer in Puglia" (Eyewear Publishing), was launched at the FTWeekend Oxford Literary Festival 2018 and has had three print runs. She has just finished my second book, "Habit of Disobedience", a tale inspired by real-life events in sixteenth-century Southern Italy. Her short story "Pianissimo" appearead on the Royal Philharmonic Society’s website; "The Bonfire" was the runner-up in a Cazart flash fiction competition; "Accidental Musicians" featured at The Vortex’s ‘Words & Jazz’.
She also organizes writing retreats in the Bernese Oberland.
