NEUWRITE NORDIC
NeuWrite Nordic is a European branch of the international network of science-writing groups NeuWrite, based in New York City. NeuWrite is a unique collaboration that brings scientists and creative writers together to workshop each other's approaches to communicating with the general public about science.
Once a month NeuWrite Nordic provides a comfortable room in Helsinki with dinner and drink, and a videoconference link to connect with participants around the region, to host a creative-writing workshop inspired by the Nordic folkbildning tradition of collaborative learning.
We provide feedback on drafts of each other's science writing, broadly defined, and sometimes study the work of other science writers. We are actively seeking new participants across the Nordic area and from other parts of Europe as well. Learn more.
News
January workshop
At our January workshop we discuss two draft texts that use stories of the past to help illuminate cutting-edge science. First, an opinion essay on neuroscience and nutrition taps the author’s…
Poetry, science, life
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, bestselling author, and popular science writer Amy Ellis Nutt once told NeuWrite Nordic’s director, Trevor Corson, that she got some of her best ideas for science…
European creative writing conference
NeuWrite Nordic was invited to give a presentation about what we do, and about what writers might learn from scientists, at the conference of the European Association of Creative Writing…
Recent workshops
What enters us, what changes us
Our first text this month pondered the state of science communication about the environment, through an unusual form of personal reflection on plastic particles that enter us and cloak themselves…
Parenting on planet health-science hellscape
Parental anxiety around the health of our children was at the forefront of this month’s workshop. This meeting was one of the most packed ones so far, and the quality…
Tracing the scale of the unseen: from trans-species atmospheres to minuscule molecules
This workshop had us look at the world from its two extremes: the macroscopic domain of the invisible yet tangible ethical relationships that entangle researchers with their subjects of study,…
What does “knowledge” depend on?
Beware of UFO In the consciousness of a scientifically-minded person, UFOs might seem like just another quirky, conspiratorial, psycho-social delusion to be analyzed from the safety of academic objectivity, and…
Who defines disease, and who gets money to study cures?
At our August meeting we workshopped two draft opinion essays that, from different angles but from within the same field, raised fundamental questions about how we should describe and nurture…
Unconventional science lessons in health
Embracing uncertainty This tends to be an unconventional public stance for scientists these days, which could be why our first draft text this month felt so fresh when it began…
Convention says science and literature are separate, and that the public must be told the correct facts of objective science. But as scientists, writers, and audiences, we are communally navigating mixed-together scientific and humanistic narratives going all directions. Thus science writing can, and perhaps should, also embrace uncertainty, vulnerability, subjectivity, emotion, metaphor, and imagination if the goal is to create lasting insight and impact.
—Trevor Corson
Director, NeuWrite Nordic
Member, European Association of Creative Writing Programs
NeuWrite Nordic is supported by a generous grant from
NeuWrite Nordic ry | 2026