The Late Spring Writers Studio

From mid-May through early July, join us for a steady, companionable writing practice designed to help you rekindle your stories, rebuild your creative rhythm, and stay close to the page.

The Late Spring Studio invites writers of all genres to experience the generative energy of a shared creative space: a place for experimentation, consistency, quiet accountability, and unfolding work as we write our way into summer together.

The Late Spring Studio opens on Monday, May 11, 2026.

Let’s begin again, together.

Hosted by the GWG × Andra Otilia Nicolescu*

✨ About the Late Spring Studio

Late spring carries a different kind of momentum: a season of emergence, movement, and gradual unfolding. This studio is designed to meet that rhythm—supporting writing that is in progress, in transition, or just beginning to take shape.

Across two guided sessions each week, we will gather to read, reflect, and write together—cultivating a steady, generative momentum in our work.

Each session offers a simple, supportive structure: shared reading, open discussion, and guided writing prompts (“portals”), followed by focused writing time and optional sharing in community.

This season also includes two special guest sessions with invited authors, following our beautiful conversation with acclaimed novelist Raaza Jamshed earlier this year.

Whether you are beginning a new project, returning to a long-paused manuscript, or simply seeking a rhythm to anchor your practice, the studio offers a welcoming and flexible creative home.

✏️ Overview of the Programme

Session Dates: May 11 – July 2, 2026
Schedule: Mondays & Thursdays, 8:30–10:30am (Geneva time)

Two hours of facilitated co-writing each session, with structure, spaciousness, and quiet accountability.

 What to Expect in Our Sessions

• Gentle goal-setting & intention framing to help you arrive on the page
• Shared readings and prompts to open new creative pathways
• Two or three focused writing portals to sustain momentum and spark new directions in companionable silence
• Optional time for reflection, questions, or sharing
• A shared digital workspace with resources, inspiration, and connection
• A welcoming community of writers moving through the season together

 Seasonal Extras

Throughout the programme, participants will be invited to occasional pop-up offerings, including surprise prompts, reflective check-ins, and our two special guest author sessions woven into the season.

 Who Should Join Us?

All writers and curious creative minds are warmly welcome.

Whether you plan to attend every session or drop in when you can, the studio is designed to support a range of rhythms and commitments. We look forward to writing with you.

 Late Spring 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 commit to the full season.

• Full Studio (16 sessions): CHF 100
  
• 12-Session Package: CHF 90
  
• 10-Session Package: CHF 80 
  
• 8-Session Package: CHF 65 
  
• Single Session: CHF 10 
  

We are committed to making this programme accessible to all. If cost is a barrier, please email 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!