Alisha Gamisch studied in Munich and London and now lives in Berlin as a freelance writer. Her first collection of poetry, "Lustdorf" (Verlagshaus Berlin, 2020), which features a fictional dialogue with a Black Sea German grandmother, was selected by the Haus für Poesie as one of the best poetry debuts of the year. In 2022, she received the Nora Pfeffer Prize for Poetry from the Bavarian Cultural Centre for Germans from Russia, and in 2023 she was a fellow at the Novel Workshop of the Literary Colloquium Berlin. She is a founding member of the feminist association Wepsert e.V. and co-curator and presenter of the ‘PostOst-Café’ series of readings and discussions at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin. Since 2025, she has been part of the literary show ‘No Scribes’, directed by Lena Brasch, alongside Raphaelle Red and Paula Fürstenberg. Her debut novel "Parasiti" has been published by Voland & Quist and is nominated for the German Book Prize.
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Students at the studierendenWERK BERLIN’s partner universities in Berlin
- Experience in writing their own literary texts and regular practice in doing so
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Once you have been accepted onto the writing workshop, a participation fee of 26 euros will be charged.
- Enjoyment and motivation in working on texts together as a group and getting involved in a joint literary project
- Time to attend the meetings regularly and time to work on their own texts regularly
- Participation in the reading
- Oral comprehension of the German language and proficiency in written German or English
- Interest in intercultural issues / openness
- Open call deadline: 20 October 2026, 11.59 pm
- Participants will be contacted by 30 October 2026
- A participation fee will be charged once you have been accepted onto the writing workshop.
- Regular meetings begin: from 10 November
- Meetings take place during term time on Tuesday evenings from 5 pm to 8 pm at Hardenbergstr. 34, Berlin-Charlottenburg. Selected applicants will be informed of the exact venue.
- Closing reading: end of January
