Day 4: Writing about War

The warm up sessions by Olena Kuzmina became a usual ritual for every morning during the camp and they helped participants to wake their minds up, recover mindfulness and concentration. After the next session entitled Writing about War, the participants met the Director of ARI Literature Foundation and literary agent Arevik Ashkharoyan who gave an overview of the publishing industry in Armenia and experience in promoting Armenian literature. She was also asked to share some tips on how to find an agent, what are the main responsibilities of an agent and much more practically useful information.

The second guest speaker was Art historian and curator Vigen Galstyan who talked about interdisciplinary connections in the arts-literature-film-photography. Vigen offered the young writers to consider everything around as a text and to use images and illustrations in their storytelling.   

See the photo report of the day’s activities.

In the evening of the rich and informative day, all the camp participants visited Dilijan Old Winery restaurant for a public panel discussion with participation of their tutors - Armen of Armenia, Olena Kuzmina, David Gabunia. The event was opened by the welcome speech of the Director of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Mr. Stephan Malerius and the panel was moderated by the Director of ARI Literature Foundation Arevik Ashkharoyan.