NEUWRITE NORDIC

Bringing together scientists and writers

NeuWrite Nordic is a regional branch of the international collaborative science-writing workshop NeuWrite. NeuWrite Nordic brings together scientists and writers based in the Nordic region to provide feedback on drafts of each other's texts using the creative-writing workshop model.

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November workshop coming up

October 14, 2024

Our next dinner salon and workshop is coming up on Thursday, November 14. If you’d like to submit a text for workshopping, please contact the director. Image: Oleg Gapeenko, Vecteezy

Poetry performance / art exhibition explores scientific ideas

October 7, 2024

NeuWrite Nordic participant, doctoral researcher from the University of Helsinki’s Neuroscience Center, and internationally published writer, poet and visual artist Rakenduvadhana Srinivasan will perform her original poetry as part of…

Sci-comm panel at Brain & Mind

September 18, 2024

On October 25, NeuWrite Nordic director Trevor Corson will discuss storytelling and creative writing in science as part of a panel discussion on science communication, during the concluding event of…

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

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