Creative Writing Workshop | Summer 2024 | Thasos
Join us for an immersive literary and cultural experience, offering generative workshops, readings, and craft talks by faculty and visiting guests.
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Phaedra On Fire | Athens Epidaurus Festival 2021
Roughly based on Hippolytus by Euripides, Michalopoulou's play redefined Phaedra and her wish to be loved. It was performed on July 2021 in the Little Theatre of Ancient Epidaurus.
The City and the Writer: In Athens with Amanda Michalopoulou
Parthenon makes Athenians feel imperfect, inadequate, creating and recreating a longing for proportion, an innate obligation to beauty.
Imagining Our Own Death | Words without Borders 7/5/2020
I don’t find it useful or necessary to write about the real world the exact moment that strange and terrifying things happen.
Dictionary Under Quarantine | Fence 28/4/2020
When people still used to walk in the streets randomly, the Swiss writer Robert Walser, an idler of sorts, treated paths and forests as a carpet, asking his famous question; where would I be if I was not here?
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God’s Wife | The Paris Review 17/12/2019
My idea was to present God as a frustrated creator, a feeling all writers share. You start with this big megalomaniac idea to create a world, to change the canon, and in the middle of it you feel that something went very wrong.
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