Since her debut novel
Синдром листопаду, або Homo Compatiens (
The Fall Syndrome, or Homo Compatiens) was published in 2015, Amelina focused on writing.
The Fall Syndrome, or Homo Compatiens (foreword by
Yurii Izdryk) deals with the events at
Maidan in 2014. The novel received several literary awards, and was welcomed by both Ukrainian and foreign critics and scholars. In 2016, Amelina published a book for children called
Хтось, або Водяне серце (
Somebody, or Water Heart). (''Dom's Dream Kingdom''), about the family of a Soviet colonel who lived in Lviv in the 1990s in the former childhood apartment of the Polish Jewish author
Stanisław Lem. The novel was short-listed for the LitAkcent literary award in 2017 In 2023, Amelina was offered a UK publishing deal for the book. Amelina was a member of
PEN International. In 2018, she took part in 84th World PEN Congress in India as a delegate from Ukraine and gave a speech on Ukrainian filmmaker and a political prisoner in Russia
Oleg Sentsov. In 2021 she received the Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski Literary Prize. That same year, Amelina founded a literature festival in the
Donetsk region. She explained her motivations for this, saying ""That's what war leaves you. The sentences are as short as possible, the punctuation a redundant luxury, the plot unclear, but every word carries so much meaning. All this applies to poetry as well as to war". Her prose and poems have been translated into numerous other languages. She planned to use the residency to finish her most recent book,
Looking at Women Looking at War, described as "a diary of about a dozen women, including [herself], pursuing justice".
Looking at Women Looking at War, her only non-fiction book, was awarded the
Orwell Prize for Political Writing in June 2025. ==Wartime work==