The GWG presents:
LETTER IN NOVEMBER:
New Virtual* Write-In Studio Programme:
A month-long generative co-writing journey for all writers to rekindle stories, renew their practice, and honor their return to the page in fellowship!
Join us to experience the regenerative power of sharings supportive co-creative spaces that bring inspiration, experimentation, and opportunities for reflection and companionship to the writer's work!
Begins on November 3rd!
Hosted by the GWG × Andra Otilia Nicolescu*
✨ About the November Studio
This November, we're piloting a special community offering — the GWG Virtual Write-In Studio, a month-long generative space where writers gather to work, focus, and experiment together
Led by GWG Co-Executive Secretary Andra Otilia Nicolescu, the Studio invites you to write in good company — whether you’re deep in a manuscript, starting fresh, or finding your way back to the page.
The Write-In Studio offers a supportive, inspiring environment to show up, settle in, and get words on the page — together.
The programme will include complementary in-person and hybrid gatherings for writers in the Geneva area.
Overview of the Programme
The Virtual Writers Studio will unfold across the month of November through a blend of online and in-person gatherings designed to nourish your writing practice in community. Each week, participants are invited to join:
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morning Zoom write-in sessions for focused co-writing,
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evening discussion and accountability circles to explore the writer’s life, an
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special in-person situated writing and sharing celebrations that bring our words into the world....and some surprises along the way!
Together, these elements create a shared rhythm of accountability, creativity, and reflection—sustaining you throughout November’s generative journey.
✏️ What Else to Expect for the Write-In Sessions
- Goal-setting and gentle intention framing
- ️Two or three focused writing sprints in companionable silence
- Optional Studio time for reflections, questions, or creative co-working
- Weekly prompts and creative challenges to keep you inspired
- Access to a shared digital workspace and writing resources
Programming details:
Regular Morning Co-Writing Sessions on Zoom
⏰ Three weekly morning write-in sessions on Zoom — Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 08:00–11:00 CET (drop-in welcome any time during Studio hours; full calendar schedule is available below).
Weekly Evening Circles: The Writer’s Life
⏰ Four weekly accountability and discussion circles dedicated to practical topics for writers — from sustaining creative momentum to balancing projects, work, and life.
✨ Featuring pop-up guest authors (to be announced) selected in dialogue with participant interests.
Two Situated Writing Sessions and Sharing Celebration
⏰ Two in-person situated writin sessions designed to spark fresh ideas, cross disciplines, and reignite the joy of creating, concluding with a hybrid sharing celebration (last two Fridays of November). Exact dates to be announced in November!
Who should join us?
All writers and curious creative minds are welcome to join and find renewed motivation and inspirationp in community - whether you'll be able to attend all of only part of the sessions, we look forward to writing with you!
Meet Andra, Your Commnity Co-Navigator!
Andra Otilia Nicolescu is a Romanian-American writer, editor, and human rights lawyer who works at the crossroads between fiction and history, memory and archive, and legal and critical theory. Her Pushcart Prize–nominated literary fiction and creative non-fiction has appeared in literary journals including Glimmer Train, Catapult Magazine, Blunderbuss, and Matca Literara, where she currently is a collaborating editor.
Since 2020, she has found creative reaffirmation in literary mentorships, practice collectives, and fellowship communities, experiences that rekindled her motivation, creativity and practice,
This year, she’s grateful to have been welcomed by the Geneva Writers’ Group’s diasporic homeshores, and is more than ever drawn to co-creating and facilitating shared, generative spaces for like-minded explorers.
She’d love for you to drop a word — to say hello, share your story, or tell her about the visions and inspirations that keep you returning to the page with us this November.
**(While Andra's website undergoes some reluctant renovations, you can find traces of her unrequited auto-fictions, postmemorial hauntings, and other dialectical blunderbussinsg, scattered across common timespaces).
Full Session Calendar (meeting invitations and links to be provided upon registrtion)
Times shown are local (Geneva). You’re welcome to join for the full block or drop in as you can.
| # |
Date |
Day |
Time |
| 1 |
3 Nov 2025 |
Mon |
08:00–11:00 |
| 2 |
4 Nov 2025 |
Tue |
18:30–20:00 |
| 3 |
5 Nov 2025 |
Wed |
08:00–11:00 |
| 4 |
6 Nov 2025 |
Thu |
08:00–11:00 |
| 5 |
10 Nov 2025 |
Mon |
08:00–11:00 |
| 6 |
11 Nov 2025 |
Tue |
18:30–20:00 |
| 7 |
12 Nov 2025 |
Wed |
08:00–11:00 |
| 8 |
13 Nov 2025 |
Thu |
08:00–11:00 |
| 9 |
17 Nov 2025 |
Mon |
08:00–11:00 |
| 10 |
18 Nov 2025 |
Tue |
18:30–20:00 |
| 11 |
19 Nov 2025 |
Wed |
08:00–11:00 |
| 12 |
20 Nov 2025 |
Thu |
08:00–11:00 |
| 13 |
24 Nov 2025 |
Mon |
08:00–11:00 |
| 14 |
25 Nov 2025 |
Tue |
18:30–20:00 |
| 15 |
26 Nov 2025 |
Wed |
08:00–11:00 |
| 16 |
27 Nov 2025 |
Thu |
08:00–11:00 |
Registration & Pricing
Free of charge for GWG members! Open to all writers and explorers.
Pay-what-you-can (sliding scale) for non-members: 5 · 10 · 15 · 20 · 25 CHF per session.
Write to us with questions or to register your interest at genevawriters@gmail.com!
