Out of the Workshop: Writers from The Reader Berlin

Our writers in Berlin have been penning personal essays, spinning out speculative flash fiction, writing poetry for the first time, trying out comedy writing, and polishing short stories in our many classes and workshops. So please join our growing writing community to hear what everyone’s been working on – and to kick off a new season of workshops, readings, and writing.

ROMHY CUBAS is a writer and content creator who migrated to Berlin in 2017 from Caracas, Venezuela with her soul-dog Nena. She has a degree in Mass Communication and Journalism, and a Master’s Degree in Literature. She has published book reviews and cultural/social pieces for international outlets in Madrid, Caracas and Berlin. Books are her favorite place to exist, and she wants to write stories for as long as she can. Currently, she is also a project manager during the day, and dogsitter by night.

FIONNUALA KAVANAGH is a writer and journalist from the UK. She likes to write about social issues. Her major projects include a novel about an Integrationskurs in Berlin and an interview series about intimacy. She is currently working on an essay collection that examines why her brother was indoctrinated by alt-right ideology. She also likes to experiment with ways of getting her social critique to new audiences. Spot snippets of her novel on bright green posters around Berlin.

LENTIL (LENI) PURBRICK is an Australian writer living in Berlin. In her work, she aims to map the experience of being alive, giving consideration to identity, grief, and consolidation of one’s self in a body. She is also a farmer, educator and the co-author of two books, Grown & Gathered (2016) and The Village (2018), and works as a self-integration coach.

LUKAS KOFOED REIMANN is a trans* writer, scholar, and editor who lives in Berlin. His writing is often concerned with questions of identity and belonging and explores his experiences of transition and chronic pain in particular. He is a passionate reader of all kinds of trans* literature and continually hopes to empower others to tell their stories. In 2022, his text Undiagnosed was selected as one of the runners up for the Berlin Writing Prize, and in 2023 he is a recipient of a work-stipend for Non-German literature from the Berlin Senate. Lately his work has appeared in Danish in Trappe Tusind and in English in Overcom Magazine.

ANNEKATHRIN WALTHER grew up on the North Sea. She holds an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Freie Universität Berlin and an M.A. in English from Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. She worked as an assistant to the artistic director at Berliner Ensemble. In 2013, she started working as a playwright and dramaturg and founded a freelance theater company that staged productions at Berlin theaters between 2013 and 2017. She also spent some time selling books and coffee at ocelot bookstore and worked as a dramaturg with the artist Sonya Schönberger as well as at Theater Baden-Baden and Heimathafen Neukölln. Since 2020 she has been focusing on literary writing. She lives in Berlin.

Moderator SANDERS ISAAC BERNSTEIN, born in London, grew up in New Jersey (USA). His writing has appeared, among other places, in newyorker.com, Jewish Currents, and The Bad Version, which he founded and edited from 2011-2014, and most recently in Hypocrite Reader and Full Stop. He holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Southern California and currently works as Stage Editor of Exberliner. He has led writing workshops at The Reader since 2021.