Evangelia Mitilinou
Poet and author
I started writing in secret abroad. Thirty Swedish winters. Two sons. A career in Health & Safety. Notebooks in the drawer that no one saw for years. At forty-eight I came back to Greece. I let the writing take its place.
My first book was poetry. In the Search for Eternal Love, You'll Find Yourself. Published in 2023, in English, about what a woman learns through the men she has loved and lost.
My second is autofiction. Same Time Next Year. I am writing it now. It is the story of years of meetings with a man on a Greek island. Of what a woman builds around that kind of ritual. Of what she loses. Of what she keeps.
I write for the woman who feels too much, who has loved too honestly, and who is quietly learning to belong to herself. If you are here, you probably know already what it is to live in more than one world at once.
Welcome
Same Time Next Year
Autofiction. In progress. Will be published in 2027.
They met in Athens many years ago. A love neither of them was prepared for, and neither of them could hold. They live in separate worlds. Different countries. Different lives. Different commitments. And yet something between them refuses to disappear.
Same time. Same place. Two days of passion and rare connection at the end of every June.
Between the summers, life goes on. Both of them wait for next June without knowing they are waiting.
Same Time Next Year is the story of years of that ritual. Of what a woman builds around a love that has no room in her life. Of what she loses. Of what she keeps. Of the small window that opens every summer and closes when the ferry leaves the harbour.
The book is written in short chapters, in the voice of the woman who lived it, on the day she is trying to understand it. Some chapters are scenes. Others are letters she never sent. Some are journal pages. All of them are true in the way autofiction is true, which is to say, not always in the details, but always in what the body remembers.
Set between Sweden, Athens, Thassos and the wild island of Samothraki, where ancient initiation rituals once promised transformation, this is a book about love, longing, and the mysterious ways certain people continue to find each other across time.
It is a book for women who have loved outside the lines. Who have wondered whether what they have is a gift or a curse. Who have not needed the answer to keep going.
Because some love stories change the course of a life. Others simply remind you who you have always been.
Author Letters
Same Time Next Year, chapter by chapter, delivered to your inbox on Sunday afternoons.
I am writing the book in the open.
Over the next year I will share it chapter by chapter with subscribers to my Author Letters. Every Sunday afternoon a new letter will arrive. Some chapters are short and quiet. Others are long. Together they will build the whole book, in the order it is meant to be read.
If you subscribe, you are not just reading a finished book. You are watching it become one. You are inside the writing as it happens. You will receive the chapters before anyone else. You will see the pages that get cut and the ones that stay.
The book will be published in print in 2027. Subscribers will receive their signed copy at a reduced price. Some of the strongest chapters will only appear in the printed book. The letters are the invitation. The book is the arrival.
Read with me
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The opening of each new chapter, delivered every Sunday. Monthly essays on the writing life. Announcements of readings and events.
Free. No card needed.
In the Confessional
Full chapters, delivered as they are written. Journal pages that will not make it into the book. Direct invitations to intimate readings and retreats. Early access to the signed edition when the book is published in 2027.
10 euro per month or 100 euro per year.
In the Search for Eternal Love, You’ll Find Yourself (2023)
My first poetry collection, is a conversation with the inner life of those who feel deeply, the strong parts, the tired parts, the certain and the searching. The book is written in English. Through my art, I hope to inspire others to look inward, feel their emotions and accept every part of themselves.
My books are for those who feel too deep to fit in. For the ones who carry many roles, many stories, many versions of themselves, often at the same time.
These poems were written in the quiet spaces between responsibilities, in the ache of longing and in the small, luminous moments of everyday life. They are not here to fix you or to tell you who to be. They are here to sit beside you, to keep you company in your own inner landscape.
These poems are for you if you often feel “too much” or “not enough”, if you carry many responsibilities, and if you are drawn to words that are honest, gentle and clear, not dramatic for the sake of it.
You don’t have to call yourself “a poetry person”. You just have to sense that words can hold you when nothing else quite fits.
Signed Editions
The book is available as a signed edition for those who want a more personal connection to the work.
Each signed copy includes my handwritten signature and a short note.
If you are looking for objects that carry verses, prints, cards or other pieces, you will find them in the Giftboxes section.