Aleksandra  Fedczanka (Hamyanok)

Residence:

LITERARY RESIDENCIES IN WARSAW FOR WRITERS, PLAYWRITERS AND TRANSLATORS FROM BELARUS AND UKRAINE

Fictionist, author of fairy tales, short stories, children’s stories and short prose for adults. She is an editor of a collection of fairy tales and a methodological manual on the SustainableDevelopment Goals from a non-governmental organization „Interakcia Georgia”.

 

Since 2018, she has been organizing loud readings and authorial creative activities with children aged 6+ in the literary workshop. She was a teacher at the Belarusian schoolin Batumi, head of the literary workshop at the school „Spring Garden”.

 

She has eight published children’s books, two of them in Poland. Her two books were shortlisted for the Tsotka Prizefor the best Belarusian children’s book. Her books can be found in the Skorin Library in London, the “Zhaveteka” Library in Warsaw, Baobab Library in Lublin, the “AkSyarodak” Library in Batumi.

 

She is a style editor of Katerina Karpowicz’s collection of short stories “The Ferry to Ancona” published by Goliaths(Belarus); and an editor of the book “A Tangle Called the Sun” by Mikhail Kunitsky (published in English by HertfordshirePress).

 

Former editor and publishing editor of a magazine for managers of healthcare organizations, an editor of videos on the YouTube channel “Psychology. What?”, an editor of Telegram channels dedicated to the topics of domesticviolence and the sociology of happiness.

 

She was a recipient of “Gaude Polonia” Scholarship Program 2025.