Projects Funded

The projects listed below have been supported by Documenting Ukraine. This is not a complete list; other grantees have opted not to publish information about their projects, and new projects are being added to the site on an ongoing basis.

Project	Grantee
A Million Stories	Artem Chapeye
Working toward a novel that will attempt to grapple with the magnitude of the war and the devastation that has followed in its wake
An Essay from the Front	Andriy Lyubka
A book length essay on the daily lives of the Ukrainian soldiers behind the news reports as witnessed by a volunteer making regular trips to the front
Birds of Last Summer, a Novel (Птахи останнього літа)	Volodymyr Rafeyenko
A symphony of voices, life experience and different layers of consciousness – this novel will serve as a refugee’s response to the Russian occupation.
Dictionary of War (Словник війни)	Ostap Slyvynsky
A book filled with short texts based on monologues from victims and witnesses of the Russian invasion with each entry focused on an important word
Kharkiv: Under the Bombs. Poltava: Immigrants (Харків: Під бомбами. Полтава: Переселенці)	Andrii Krasniashchykh
A nonfiction book reflecting on the author’s experiences of the shelling of Kharkiv and his later life as an internally displaced person in Poltava
Marked Words: An Eccentric Dictionary of War	Oksana Maksymchuk
A part authorial, part curatorial exploration of how senses of temporality, mortality and responsibility adapt to a world undergoing extreme change
Refugee's Diary	Oksana Shchur
This long-read essay is a journey into the mind of a new Ukrainian woman who has had to leave a life behind and start again in the European Union
Schrödinger's Cat: A Play
A play about a Bucha woman returning to her home and encountering the Russian soldier who killed her husband.
Short Stories Collection “Hotel Tranquility,” Based on the Topic of the Russian War in Ukraine and Real Events	Roman Malynovskyi
Publishing a collection of 15 short stories that relate narratives drawn from real experiences related to the author by friends and eyewitnesses
Staying within the War, a Topology of Experience	Iryna Kostyshyna
A series of essays engaging with the conceptual underpinnings of the war within a postcolonial intellectual framework.
The Language of War: Letters from Ukraine	Oleksandr Mykhed
A book of essays bearing witness to the destruction caused by Russia and chronicling Ukrainian resistance.
There Is a Land Beyond Perekop	Anastasia Levkova
A novel about Crimea covering 1992-2014, focusing on Crimean Tatar families & their experiences, explores ethnic communities in Crimea & factors leading to annexation

Civil Society
Daily Life
Destruction & Reconstruction
Displacement
Environment
Health
Heritage
Human Rights
Identity & Culture
Information & Disinformation
Language & Symbols
Memory
Military
Occupation & Atrocity
Public Opinion
Religion
Resilience & Solidarity
Rural
Science & Education
Trauma & Rehabilitation
Urban
Vulnerable Groups
Women