Draft:Fantastychni talk(s)

Fantastychni talk(s) is a literary association formed in May 2021 by Ukrainian SFF writers. Among them are Natalia Novhopol, Iryna Hrabovska, Natalia Matolinets, Daria Piskozub and Svitlana Taratorina.

Activities
The main project of Fantastychni talk(s) is a YouTube channel of the same name. In each episode, the founding women writers discuss fantasy and science fiction, mythology, Ukrainian and international authors writing in the genre, share their experience writing books and working with publishers, and lead a book club.

Since March 2022, from the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the channel also began conducting a series of charity interviews with internationally famous writers of SFF with the goal of raising funds to help Ukrainian soldiers purchase life-saving necessities. Their guests included Margaret Atwood, Andrzej Sapkowski, James S. A. Corey, R. F. Kuang, Christopher Paolini, Peter Watts, Joe Abercrombie, Marissa Meyer, Jonathan Stroud, Patrick Ness, Richard Morgan, Joe Hill, Madeline Miller, Jay Kristoff, Christelle Dabos and N. K. Jemisin, among others.

In 2022, the channel featured a lecture series about the history of Ukrainian SFF. It received an Achievement Award 2023 from the European Science Fiction Society in the Best Internet Publication category.

The members of Fantastychni talk(s) created an award (of the same name) for Ukrainian and international works written in the SFF genre. In collaboration with publishers, they hold literature contests among readers and authors.

In 2022, the publisher Zhorzh released a collection of stories written by the founding writers of Fantastychni talk(s), titled The Chronicles of Undiscovered Lands. Each story in the collection, ranging from fantasy to science fiction, explores a different historical era and a different region of Ukraine.

In 2024, the online school of literature Litosvita launched a new program featuring lectures titled Fantastychni talk(s) — How to write SFF.

Awards

 * 2023 — Achievement Award from the European Science Fiction Society in the category "Best Internet Publication" for the series "The History of Ukrainian SFF"

Links

 * YouTube-канал «Фантастичні talk(s)»
 * Огляд збірки «Хроніки незвіданих земель» // Вебресурс Divoche.Media