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 region and from other parts of Europe as well. Learn more.
News
Award: Science Article of the Year
Congratulations to NeuWrite Nordic participant Essi Ikonen, who has received the “Science Article of the Year” award from Kasvatus: The Finnish Journal of Education. Essi’s essay critiquing utilitarian notions of…
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
Telling stories makes us better noticers of the world
Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us…
Surviving the brutal boringness of science
When we tell stories about science, it’s tempting to feature the excitement and glamour of science’s capacity to spur innovative thinking and intellectual progress. But the daily slog of actually…
Rethinking pregnancy and the nervous system
Our entire understanding of pregnancy’s first trimester might need radically to change A deceptively calm but profoundly probing proposal essay was our first draft text this month. The essay spanned…
The symbiosis between science fictions & science realities
Can fantasies of scientific knowledge and improvement inspire the real thing? In our May workshop we asked whether fantasies about science-from pseudo-scientific notions about health and longevity, to sci-fi movies…
Coincidence?
Unexpected intersections, cosmic alignments, and the invisible hands of fate and AI In our April workshop, we were reminded of how often things in life are shaped by forces we…
Myth vs. science
Our March workshop took us into the land of myths in two very different ways-first, through medical practices that are not as evidence-based as one might expect, and second, through…
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