Ulyanovsk authors will be trained at the Writing School of the Volga Federal District
Ulyanovsk authors - Igor Ulitin, Ilya Shestakov and Vladimir Artamonov - will become participants of the All-Russian School of Writing of the Volga Federal District, which will be held from September 22 to 25 in Ufa.

The school in Ufa is organized by the Foundation for Socio-Economic and Intellectual Programs and the literary magazine "Zvezda" with the support of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation. 20 PFD authors who have passed the competitive selection will take part in it.

There will be two master classes at the School: prose (the hosts of the master class are writer Valery Georgievich Popov and writer, editor Kira Anatolyevna Groznaya) and poetry (the host of the master class is literary critic, literary critic, novelist Andrey Yurievich Aryev). The School program also includes: a meeting with the heads of the St. Petersburg literary magazines Zvezda and Aurora, a presentation of books by young writers published by the Foundation in the Young Literature series, a creative meeting with writer Valery Popov, a creative meeting "About Sergei Dovlatov" with the editor-in-chief of Zvezda magazine Andrey Aryev, etc.

Ulyanovsk authors will take part in a prose master class.

Igor Ulitin was born in 1986 in the village of Cherny Klyuch, Bazarnosyzgansky district, has been living in Ulyanovsk since 2003. Graduated from UlSPU. By education, a teacher of geography and biology. Since 2008, he has been working as a journalist, of which five years in the "People's Newspaper". The author of the samizdat collection "Dissatisfied". Winner of the contests "First Dew", "Verlibre", "Flight of fantasy". It was included in the long list of the Filatov Festival. One of the creators of the creative association "Ilyich's Gang". In prose, he prefers a short format, in poetry - civil lyrics and satire.

Ilya Shestakov is the author of two novels, several novellas and many short stories. Works in the genres of social drama, science fiction and psychological thriller.