Write Your Heresy. Discussion Meeting with Lora Dobreva

WRITE YOUR HERESY! Meeting and creative workshop with Lora Dobreva

When was the last time you doubted something you were absolutely convinced of? And how many of your beliefs are actually yours? How many have you inherited from family, school, religion, society, without ever questioning them?
Once, people were burned at the stake for heresy. Today, the stakes are mostly metaphorical, but the desire to define which thoughts are permissible and which are not seems quite alive.
Literature has one wonderful, dangerous quality: it allows us to imagine a world where "that's how it's accepted" is not an argument, "it's always been this way" is not proof, and "everyone knows" is the beginning of a question, not the end of a conversation.

On December 5th, we will talk about this with Lora Dobreva — a writer, poet, teacher of English and French, and author of the blog "Your Aunt Lora". We will also present her first poetry collection "From the Ark to Today" — poetry about love, loneliness, relationships, freedom, and the difficult construction of one's own worldview.

We will read poems, debate dogmas, prejudices, religious and secular prohibitions. We will ask ourselves whether the language we think in determines what we consider normal. And whether a person who has freed themselves from one dogma sometimes becomes the most zealous defender of the next.

And then we will write our own heresies!

A poem in defense of the forbidden? A story about a world where the accepted is unthinkable? A short manifesto against some "eternal truth"? Or a text that starts with "I've always been told that..." but ends in a way no one expected?
Everything is allowed. Including discovering that you were wrong.

Come check if we think with our own heads. And see what happens when we turn doubt into literature.

December 5, Saturday, 4:00 PM.
Community Center "Iskra-1924", 103 Captain Raycho Nikolov St., Varna
Free entry!

The event is part of the European Author's Day 2026 in Varna "Friendship and Togetherness."