At the end of November, the 21st International Forum of Young Writers of Russia, the CIS countries and abroad "Lipki" will be held in the Moscow region. Its participants will be 160 authors under the age of 35, including those from Ulyanovsk.

The forum of young writers will be held from November 28 to December 4, 2021 in the Zvenigorodsky boarding house near Moscow, it is organized by the Foundation for Socio-Economic and Intellectual Programs and is held jointly with the literary magazines Questions of Literature, Friendship of Peoples, Zvezda, Znamya ”, “Foreign Literature”, “New World”, “Modern Dramaturgy”, “Youth”, etc.

More than 400 young writers from 65 regions of Russia and 8 countries of the CIS and abroad took part in the competition. 160 participants who passed the competition were invited to the Forum, including the poet and prose writer Igor Ulitin (Ulyanovsk) and the poet Danila Nozdryakov (Ulyanovsk-Moscow). As we have learned, only Igor Ulitin will be able to come to the Forum.

The forum will host master classes on various literary genres from editors of literary magazines, round tables, meetings with famous writers. Based on the results of the work in the master classes, the recommended authors will be awarded scholarships, the best works of the Forum participants will be recommended for publication in the New Writers collection, thematic collections and for publication as a separate book in the Young Literature series. The most active participants will be recommended for admission to the Literary Institute. A.M. Gorky.

For 20 years, more than three thousand authors have taken part in the forums. The Ulyanovsk authors Danila Nozdryakov, Gala Uzryutova, Vyacheslav Savin, Tatyana Filatova, Maria Zavadskaya and others have repeatedly become its participants and scholarship holders. We also recall that the Forum was held several times in Ulyanovsk, the UNESCO City of Literature.

For reference

Igor Ulitin was born in 1986 in the village of Cherny Klyuch, Bazarnosyzgansky district, since 2003 he has been living in Ulyanovsk. Graduated from UlGPU. Education teacher of geography and biology. Since 2008 he has been working as a journalist, of which five years in the "Narodnaya Gazeta". Author of the samizdat collection "Unwilling". Laureate of the competitions "First Dew", "Verslibre", "Span of Fantasy". He was on the long list of the Filatov Festival. One of the founders of the creative association "Gang of Ilyich". In prose, she prefers short format, in poetry - civil lyrics and satire.

Danila Nozdryakov was born in 1986 in Ulyanovsk. Graduated from Ulyanovsk State University, worked as a teacher of philosophy and history, now a journalist. He was on the long list of the Pushkin Lyceum Literary Prize, became the winner of the Verlibre international literary competition, a diploma winner of the international Voloshin competition, a participant in the Lypki international forum of young writers and a seminar of the Moscow Writers' Union. In 2020, the famous Moscow publishing house Voymega published Danila's debut book of poems, The Volga Children's Republic. Now lives in Moscow

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