News from the workshop Since Stela's journey into the world, Cristofovici has completed a new novel and is currently working on a book that combines essays, fiction and photographs. Two sections of this collage of journeys into language, imagination and space have appeared in the on-line journals La Piccioletta Barca (UK) and alligatorzine (Belgium):

• "Mount Sainte-Victoire (or Cézanne Revisited)" - by Anca Cristofovici https://www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/mount-sainte-victoire-or-cezanne-revisited 

 • "From Paris to Duino", alligatorzine241 | Anca Cristofovici | A Peculiar Atlas https://www.alligatorzine.be/pages/201/zine241.html  

An excerpt from the novel has been shortlisted for the La Piccioletta Barca Prize 2024:

• La Piccioletta Barca | SHORTLIST: "Crystals Out of Chaos" by Anca Cristofovici

https://www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/amorphous-competition-shortlis-crystals-out-of-chaos-by-anca-cristofovici

 

Conversation with Anca Cristofovici, a film by Antonio D'Alfonso (2022)
In 2020, just before the lockdawn, Antonio D'Alfonso asked me to contribute to his Conversation with Writers Series. A poet, filmmaker and publisher, Antonio is a Canadian trilingual writer and someone who combines writing with visual work, so his questions revolved around such topics as:  how I feel about writing in more than one language; how language identifies me; the writing process and my visual work; my relationship with the past;  my new novel The Golden Eyelash and MittelEuropa writers; living in different countries & cultures.   The film — poorly shot on my Ipad and with an accent exacerbated by the stress of having to hold the device at an appropriate distance or move around while I was speaking — explores these questions in the city of Nice, where I lived during the pandemic, a place where cultures and languages intertwine and layers of the past pop up at every turn. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLEoc3kJ16M

 Recorded readings from Stela:

• Berry College, Georgia, Department of English,Rhetoric & Writing Series,October 29,2015https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVoJXRSSp-I 

•Everygreen State College Productions,Art Lectures Series:Michael Mejia&Anca Cristofovici,May16,2018https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlqXszLaGKM