TEXTS

2026 

•  Cosmonauts, Iryna Beschetnova (Ukr: Космонавти. Ірина Бесчетнова). Illustrated chapbook

Areté Publishing House, Serbia https://arete.rs/knjige/knjiga-kosmonavti-38311 

ISBN: 978-86-82394-77-8

•  Nataliia Kobrynska in The City of Bolekhiv: The Space of Absence, Iryna Beschetnova (Ukr: Кобринська в Болехові: простір відсутності. Ірина Бесчетнова). Essay

post impreza online magazine, Ukraine  https://cutt.ly/pt7zHN4K

2025

•  200 Grammes de Poèmes, Iryna Nova. Poetry collection in French translation

Edern Editions, Belgium https://www.ederneditions.com/page-produit/200-grammes-de-poèmes  

ISBN 978-2-39075-384-0

•   200 Grams of Poems, Iryna Nova (Ukr: 200 грамів віршів. Ірина Нова). Poetry collection

Bohdan Books publishing house, Ukraine https://bohdan-books.com/catalog/book/300141/  

ISBN 978-966-10-9075-9

•   Woman(?)-Artist(?) in Wartime(?), Iryna Beschetnova (Ukr: Жінка(?)-Мисткиня(?) у Війні(?). Ірина Бесчетнова), Essay. Meaning After Loss (Ukr: Віднайдене у втратах), Anthology

Martin Roth-Initiative / Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e. V., Germany https://www.ifa.de/en/publications/results/meaning-after-loss/

ISBN 978-617-642-706-3

2024

•   Chosen poems in French translation, Iryna Beschetnova

Recours Au Poème online magazine, France  https://www.recoursaupoeme.fr/iryna-beschetnova-lukraine-encore/  

2023

•   Cosmonauts; A-asterisk (Ukr: Космонавти; A*. Ірина Бесчетнова), Iryna Beschetnova. Drama texts. Eternity Lasts This Day. Artistic Chronicles Of War (Ukr: Вічність трива цей день. Художні хроніки війни), Anthology

Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine / Dzhura Publishing House, Ukraine  https://lnk.ua/jbsWyDQ9j

ISBN 978-966-185-206-7

2022-2025

•   Relationships; Cosmonauts; Gospel of the Kiosk. Short stories, Iryna Beschetnova

Magazines: Zeitglas-2022, Lehit (Легіт)/03-2024, Dach//01-2025

2021

•   Fairytale in Paris. Short story, Iryna Beschetnova

Meet me in Tinder. Anthology, Folio Publishing House, Ukraine

•   Penitsylov. Short story, Iryna Beschetnova

Horizons. Anthology, Lilia Publishing House, Ukraine

•  Theatre texts Cosmonauts (2023),  A asterisk (2023), Monologues of Ukrainian Refugees (2024) staged in Ukraine, France, Germany, Finland, and more on the website UKRDRAMAHUB.

200 Grams of Poems offers a snapshot of the poet’s consciousness amidst wartime conditions. It presents a broad spectrum of themes, spanning from the civilian experience of war to a wide array of other narratives. Here, the mundane and the surreal intersect through experiments with form and metaphor. Blending sincerity, intellectual irony, and a philosophy of minimalism, the works in this collection create a unique poetic fusion. 

200 Grams of Poems is a poignant diary in lines, written between war, displacement, and internal breakdowns. There are war and love, the silence of the night and the voice of summer, loss and everyday life, irony and tenderness.

In the midst of war, following the 2022 russian aggression, it is also a testament of an author who has experienced exile and now lives with displacement in her own country.

The book is the laureate for the Vasyl Symonenko All-Ukrainian Literary Prize-2026 by the National Writers' Union of Ukraine for Best Debut Poetry Collection.

French translation by Iryna Nova of her book 200 Grams of Poems (Bohdan Publishing House, Ukraine, 2025) published in 2025 in Belgium by Edern Éditions as 200 grammes de poèmes.

In this work, Iryna Nova is not only the author of the collection, but also its translator and cover illustrator.

Cosmonauts is Iryna Beschetnova's first-person story of a troubled relationship with a boyfriend against the backdrop of the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine. 

This illustrated book is published with the support of Creative Europe within the framework of the project Words Can Heal: Dealing with Trauma and Mental Health in Contemporary European Fiction for Women and Young Readers. 

The text Cosmonauts was also published in the anthology This Day Lasts Forever by the Ukrainian Institute of Literature. 

Furthermore, it was staged in France, Germany, Serbia, and Ukraine.

Meaning after Loss consists of texts and visual works by participants of the Ukrainian Women Artists Residency by Martin Roth-Initiative 2024–2025. The anthology was presented at the Kyiv Book Arsenal Festival in 2025.

The contributions include essays, drawings, photographs and documentations of performances and film projects.

The artists reflect the different experiences resulting from life in wartime, being a woman and an artist, personal and collective traumas, and inevitably questioned identities. 

Iryna Beschetnova’s essay questions the “woman” and “artist” definitions, challenging their seeming clarity and criteria. Through the text and the collage, she reveals its contradictions. The work also highlights the difficulty of communicating the lived experience of wartime, as well as challenges in transferring one's own experience to others.

More about Iryna Beschetnova's contribution, the essay Woman(?)-Artist(?) in Wartime(?), you can read here

Anthology This Day Lasts Forever of literary works that were created after February 24, 2022, the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine, was compiled by literary scholars of the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

The book contains poetry, short prose texts, plays, interviews, and literary articles that were a reaction to the full-scale invasion.

There are two texts by Iryna Beschetnova.

Cosmonauts is a first-person story of problems in relationships with a boyfriend against the background of the outbreak of the full-scale war in Ukraine. 

A-asterisk is a text about author's February 24, 2022, full of fragmentary information from the internet, bombings, attempts to survive, and escape into exile. 

DACH [ DAKH ] is the first German printed magazine with contemporary Ukrainian prose, poetry, art, photography and music in English.  

The work Relationships by Iryna Beschetnova follows the Spanish-Latin American tradition of retablo: amateur drawings and stories of everyday problems that end happily thanks to the intervention of saints.

DACH Magazine/01 has participated in numerous literary events, mostly in Germany, such as the Frankfurt Book Fair 2026, Leipzig Book Fair 2026, MissRead Berlin 2026, Forward Festival Berlin 2026, etc.

In the text Gospel of the Kiosk, Iryna Nova uses absurd humor to create a world based on absurd rules, where absurd characters act.

Iryna Beschetnova's poems Warrior(s) (Guerrier(s)), Village of Groza (Village de Groza), Prodigal daughter (Fille prodigue), Reflections (Réflexions), which tell about the war in Ukraine, were selected for publication by Carole Mesrobian, editor-in-chief of the online French magazine Recours au Poème and President of PEN France.

https://www.recoursaupoeme.fr/iryna-beschetnova-lukraine-encore/

After taking part in the Herstory literary feminist residency, which included an expedition to the city of Bolekhiv in Ivano-Frankivsk oblast, where the founder of Ukrainian feminism and writer, Nataliia Kobrynska lived and worked, and where now there are just a few traces of her presence, Iryna Beschetnova created an essay titled Kobrynska in Bolekhiv: The Space of Absence, focusing on the historical phenomenon of archival silence regarding women.

The article in Ukrainian can be found here

Monologues of Ukrainian Refugees consists of five semi-documentary drama-monologues about forced adaptation to a foreign reality of Ukrainian women refugees in different European countries.

Play on stage:

27/02/2026 - Monologues of Ukrainian Refugees Performative Reading, Winter Flower Lesya-Les Art Festival, director Tetyana Polyakova, Kharkiv, Ukraine

15/11/2025 - Distance / Im Koffer at the Ukrainian Drama Festival (Ukrainalaisen draaman festivaali) at the National Theater Kansallisteatteri, Helsinki, Finland

18,19,23/10/2025 - Im Koffer (Inside the Suitcase): ES365 Art Center, Dusseldorf; Leerstand Art Center, Oberhausen; Kibbuz Zentrum für Kunst, Essen, director Kyralina Mishchenko, Germany

10/07/2025 - Distance, Cherkasy Drama Theater, director Stanislav Sadakliiev, Ukraine

Honors:

Winner of the Ukrainian Drama Competition TAW (Theatre Against War) by Creative Europe/Ukrainian League of Authors, 2024

Long List of the July Honey Drama Competition, Ukraine 2024

Long List of the Week of the Actual Drama Competition, Ukraine, 2024

Cosmonauts is Iryna Beschetnova's first-person story of a troubled relationship with a boyfriend against the backdrop of the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine.

Play on stage:

03/09/2026 - Festival of Ukrainian Literature/Krokodil Center, director Ivana Milenović Popović (DAH Theatre), Belgrade, Serbia

04/11/2024 - My war and Me, Maisternya55 theater laboratory, director Roman Sadovsky, Kharkiv, Ukraine

24/09/2023 - Am I Real?, Rheinisches Landestheater theater, director Dmytro Obiednikov, Neuss, Germany

26/05/2023 - Furie, L'Heure Avant L'Aube theater company, La Faïencerie theater, director Matthieu Poulet, Creil, France

These reviews of two performances: Winnie the Pooh by the Kharkiv State Puppet Theater and Forever by the independent project of the Swiss diractor Tabea Martin were written as part of the Kurbas. Technologies 2021 Art Festival and posted in Ukrainian on the festival's page:

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=359709962626182&set=a.449479243879844&locale=fr_FR

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=367591161838062&set=a.449479243879844&locale=fr_FR

The idea of ​​Iryna Nova's social project Poetry: Emotions by Weight was born from the request of a large number of talented contemporary poets to be published with little opportunity to do so. This project promotes contemporary Ukrainian poetry, providing poets with an alternative opportunity for publication: in collections of postcards, where poems are united by the emotions they convey. 

Postcards in envelopes contribute to the larger promotion of contemporary Ukrainian poetry: buying a few postcards as a gift is much easier than an entire collection by an unknown author. Not to mention the fact that printing the first collection is a very difficult task.

Poets of the first edition: Olya Hontar, Olha Iskovych, Katya Stelmashchuk,  Iryna Nova

Iryna Nova's artbook / zine Tiny Silly Fairy Tales of short absurd stories, illustrated with her own artworks.

The zine took part in different artbooks festivals like the Fundament Book Festival 2024 (Kyiv, Ukraine) and the Breaking The Wall Zine Festival 2025 (Paris, France).