“What is it to discover that you’ve been loving something that doesn’t love you back? And even worse, I suppose, to invest in a culture that wants your culture to disappear?” – Andrew Kushnir Playwright Andrew Kushnir wrote an article in 2023...
It’s always more than music. Always more than me. Always more than everything. It’s this kind of connection. I want audiences to feel what I’m feeling, what I live through in like an hour. – Marichka If you’ve been listening to Kultura Rising, you’re familiar...
Anastasia Skrypnyk, a Toronto-based Ukrainian-Canadian writer, won The Shevchenko Foundation Emerging Writers Short Prose Competition in 2026 for her story JCS: Impressions, Pt. 1. In this short story, her first unpublished non-fiction work, Anastasia shares...
Photos courtesy @chrystiachudczak Akseniia Karpachova is an Ottawa-based Ukrainian artist, architect, teacher, and designer of the 2026 TSF Shevchenko Commemorative Bookmark. Akseniia’s artwork reflects an academic arts education combined with many years...
Melissa Morelli Lacroix, winner of the 2023 Emerging Writers Short Prose Competition, has published a poignant, music-inspired novella titled Adventures of Ivan. The novella, set during the early months of the COVID-19 lockdown, shares the adventures of Ukrainian...
Matthew Kruchak’s winning short story, “Business Men’s Lunch,” has been published in the latest issue of So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library. “Business Men’s Lunch,” a story that succinctly underscores the working...
