Write Through Winter Studio: A New Year–to–Solstice Generative Co-Writing Journey
From the turning of January toward the slow brightening of March, join us for a gentle, steady, companionable writing practice—one that helps you rekindle your stories, renew your creative rituals, and return to the page with warmth, courage, and delight.
Write Through Winter invites writers of all genres to experience the regenerative power of a shared creative space: a place for inspiration, experimentation, accountability, and quiet companionship as we write our way through the season together.
The Winter Studio opens on January 5, 2026.
Let’s begin again—together.
Hosted by the GWG × Andra Otilia Nicolescu*
✨ About the Winter Studio
As the year begins, winter offers a rare kind of clarity: a season of inwardness, deep listening, and slow renewal. This studio is designed to honor that rhythm.
Across two guided sessions each week, we will gather to set intentions, write in silence, share optional reflections, and cultivate a gentle but transformative momentum in our work.
Whether you are beginning a new project, returning to a long-paused manuscript, or simply seeking a ritual to anchor your practice, the studio offers a welcoming and flexible creative home.
✏️ Overview of the Programme
Session Dates: January 6 – March 19, 2026
Schedule: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 8:30–10:30am Geneva time
Two hours of facilitated co-writing each session, with structure, spaciousness, and quiet accountability.
What Else to Expect in Our Write-In Sessions
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Gentle goal-setting & intention framing to help you arrive on the page with clarity
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Two or three focused writing sprints held in companionable silence
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Optional studio time for questions, reflections, or shared creative co-working
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Weekly prompts & creative challenges to spark new ideas and sustain your momentum
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A shared digital workspace with writing resources, inspiration, and space to connect
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A welcoming community of writers moving through the season together
Seasonal Extras:
Throughout the programme, participants will also be invited to occasional pop-up offerings—surprise prompts, mini-craft interludes, reflective check-ins, and other winter-brightening activities announced along the way.
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!
Winter Studio Pricing
We offer flexible options so you can join the Studio in the way that best supports your writing practice—whether you’d like to attend occasionally or journey with us through the full winter season.
10-Session Package: Members CHF 60 · Non-Members CHF 90
12-Session Package: Members CHF 75 · Non-Members CHF 120
Full Winter Studio (All Sessions): Members CHF 120 · Non-Members CHF 165
Single Session: Members CHF 10 · Non-Members CHF 15
We are committed to making this programme accessible to all. If cost is a barrier, please contact us at genevawriters@gmail.com to discuss options.
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.
Write to us with questions at genevawriters@gmail.com!
