— Awards —
• 2026 — 200 Grams of Poems (200 грамів віршів), poetry collection: Winner/Laureate of the All-Ukrainian Vasyl Symonenko Literary Prize (by the National Writers' Union of Ukraine) for Best Debut Poetry Collection of the year.
• 2024 — Monologues of Ukrainian Refugees (Монологи біженок), play: Winner of the TAW (Theatre Against War) Ukrainian drama competition (by the All-Ukrainian League of Authors, supported by Creative Europe).
— Residencies —
• 2026 — AIR Litteratur Västra Götaland, Ljurhalla Fabriken, Vårgårda, Sweden
• 2026 — Herstory by post impreza magazine (with the support of the Goethe-Institut), Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
• 2026 — New Memory by Legit Art Space (with the support of the Lviv Municipal Art Center), Lviv, Ukraine
• 2025-2026 — Art Factory Taidetehdas (with the support of the City of Porvoo, the Porvoo Cultural Department, the Finnish Arts and Culture Agency, the Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland, Artists at Risk), Porvoo / Helsinki, Finland
• 2024-2025 — Martin Roth-Initiative (with the support of the German Foreign Ministry and the Goethe-Institut), Zeitz / Leipzig, Germany
• 2024 — StoryLab by the Starlight Media Group, Kyiv, Ukraine
• 2022-2023 — PAUSE (with the support of the French Ministry of Culture and Collège de France), Creil / Paris, France
— Professional Experience —
• 2026, June — Author at the Herstory feminist literary residency by post impreza magazine / Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. Iryna created an essay titled Nataliia Kobrynska in The City of Bolekhiv: The Space of Absence, focusing on the historical phenomenon of archival silence regarding women, and on Nataliia Kobrynska, the founder of Ukrainian feminism, who lived in the city of Bolekhiv.
• 2026, May — Artist at the Cutout Collage Group Exhibition / Lviv Municipal Art Center, Ukraine.
• 2026, March — Conceptual artist at the New Memory (Нова пам’ять) Residency and Group Exhibition for internally displaced Ukrainian artists / Lviv Municipal Art Center, Ukraine. Iryna presented the Intercity Red Book where she put dialect Kharkiv words and phrases that are extinct because of her forced displacement to Lviv after the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine. In Lviv people don’t understand her dialect Kharkiv words. That's why she put such words into the book by special ink that symbolically disappeares over time.
• 2026, January — Artist at the Open Studio-Nude Solo Exhibition / Art Factory, Porvoo, Finland. Iryna presented a series of drawings that were destroyed when her apartment in Kharkiv was bombed. She made copies of them as a sentimental act of remembering.
• 2025 — Lecturer / Litosvita School of Creative and Professional Writing (Ukraine): Negative Experience as a Creative Resource in Literature, Theater, and Cinema.
• 2025 — Artist, Author of the essay Woman(?)-Artist(?) in Wartime(?) and of a collage as a result of the Martin Roth-Initiative residency for Ukrainian women artists (Germany). The essay, exploring self-identification as a woman and woman-artist in actual Ukrainian realities, was published by the Goethe-Institut in the bilingual, Ukrainian-English, anthology Meaning after Loss and presented at the Kyiv Arsenal Book Fair. This contribution was later transformed into the video-performance Woman(?)-Artist(?) in Wartime(?) for the Meaning after Loss exhibition (Віднайдене у втратах) at the Ukrainian House in Kyiv. It also received nomaination as the Best Documentary Short at the Golden FEMI Film Festival 2026 (Bulgaria), and has been selected to be included in the MORPHÉ Film Festival 2027 (Ukraine).
• 2025 — Author, Translator (as Iryna Nova) of the debut poetry collection 200 Grams of Poems (200 грамів віршів), published in Ukraine, and in French self-translation in Belgium (200 grammes de poèmes); some poems have been featured in Recours au Poème magazine (2024), France. The book is the laureate of the All-Ukrainian Vasyl Symonenko Literary Prize-2026 for Best Debut Poetry Collection (by the National Writers' Union of Ukraine).
• 2024 — Screenwriter of the Story Lab screenwriting residency / Starlight Media Group, Ukraine, where the screenplay Fortune Receipt was developed.
• 2024 — Playwright of the piece Monologues of Ukrainian Refugees (Монологи біженок), winner of the TAW (Theatre Against War) Ukrainian drama competition (by the All-Ukrainian League of Authors, supported by Creative Europe). The play was performed at the Cherkasy Music and Drama Theatre (Ukraine/2025), the Kibbuz Zentrum für Kunst (Germany/2025), the Kansallisteatteri Ukrainian Drama Festival (Finland/2025), and at the Winter Flower Lesya-Les Art Festival (Ukraine/2026).
• 2024 — Artist at the Bodies UAP (Вечірній рисунок УАД) Group Exhibition at the Dzyga Art Center, Lviv, Ukraine.
• 2022–2023 — Stage director, Performer, Playwright, and Acting teacher in France as a scholarship holder, supported by the French Ministry of Culture. During the residency, three interdisciplinary performances were developed and staged: Lecture dessinée for the Embassy of Ukraine in France, L’Ukraine inconnue for La Faïencerie Theatre, Les Chevaux de Feu for Le phénix scène nationale Theatre.
• 2023 — Playwright of the piece Cosmonauts (Космонавти), published in the anthology This Day Lasts Forever (Вічність трива цей день) by the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature (Ukraine/2023), and as a chapbook by Areté Publishing House (Serbia/2026). It was staged in France (La Faïencerie-Théâtre de Creil/2023), Germany (Rheinisches Landestheater/2023), Ukraine (Maysternia55/2024), and presented at the Ukrainian Literature Festival in Serbia by Ivana Milenović Popović (DAH Theatre/2026).
• 2022 — Performer in Evaporations staging at the Paris Convergence Plateau Festival and in the online performance A (Ukrainian) Midsummer Night's Dream with the British Butterfly Theater Company.
• 2021–2022 — Head of the Drama Department, Kharkiv State Theater for Children and Youth; co-organiser of the art festival Kurbas Technologies-21.
• 2019 — Performer, Acting teacher, Founder of the Viral Theater acting course in Kharkiv for foreign-language speakers while performing at Kharkiv theatres Madrigal and Publicist.
• 2019 — Artist at the A4 Ballpoint Group Exhibition by the Karas Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
— Education —
• 2023 — Master’s degree in Scenic Arts, Kharkiv State Academy of Culture, Ukraine
• 2017 — Cultural Heritage Erasmus Programme, Université Lumière Lyon-2, France
• 2016 — Culture and Creativity Leadership Programme by the British Council, Kyiv, Ukraine