English Literature Club

Welcome to our English Literature Club!

We are a FREE Moscow-based club. Every week, we provide you with a short story in English and then discuss it the following Wednesday. We do not restrict ourselves to any particular genre.

There are NO FORMAL REQUIREMENTS and NO REGISTRATION for attending the club meetings. However, having at least an intermediate level of English will make it easier for you to benefit from (and enjoy!) the discussions. All we recommend is that you read the story before the meeting. For your convenience, we try to post both EPUB and PDF files containing the story.

We typically meet at the ZIL Cultural Centre on Wednesday evenings at 19:00. Detailed information about upcoming meetings, incuding any changes to the time and the venue, are posted in this group regularly. Please follow our announcements.

Now, a few words about the format of a typical meeting. The first few minutes are generally devoted to a broad biographical look at the author, focusing especially on those aspects of his or her life that are relevant to the story. After this, one of the participants provides a short summary of the story containing its most important details; this is followed by the main discussion. We welcome people who are willing to present biographical details of the author and/or a summary of the story; if you would like to do that, please let us know in this group or via our Telegram group chat (link below).

One more thing: we always welcome story suggestions. You can use the "Story Suggestions" link on the main page for this purpose. Please note that we have certain story-selection criteria, which means we probably won’t be able to take each and every suggestion. We apologise for that in advance.

Finally, here are a few very useful links, including one to our very active Telegram chat:

• The Knowledge Base, which contains additional information about our club, discussions, etc.: http://english_club.gitlab.io/docs/
• Telegram story channel: https://teleg.run/short_story_of_the_week
• Telegram group chat: https://teleg.run/literature_club_zil
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/english_lcz

We look forward to seeing you at our meetings!