Reading Balkans: Borders vs. Frontiers
Open Call – Results
Literary Residence Program
Reading Balkans Residency
Reading Balkans: Borders vs. Frontiers
Open Call – Results
Literary Residence Program
Reading Balkans Residency
The Residency is pre arranged by Reading Balkans project in cooperation with the Publishing House Goga (Slo), Goten Publishing (MK), Krokodil (Srb), Udruga Kurs (Cro), Poeteka (Alb), Qendra Multimedia (Kos), PEN BIH and S. Fischer Stiftung (De) & partners.
The Literary Residence Programme ‘Reading Balkans 2020’ is open to welcome fiction writers, poets, essayists, playwrights, screenplay writers and comic book writers from Southeast Europe (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Albania, Romania, Montenegro, Bulgaria).
Read moreLiterary event with Ahmed Burić, Lidija Dimkovska and Maša Seničić will be held on July 3rd at 20.30 at ARTos Foundation Rooftop. All three authors are participants of the 2day Cyprus Literary Exchange.
Wednesday, 29th May, 18.30 in Paul Celan Literaturzentrum (Cernivtsi).
A literary event with three Reading Balkans authors will take place in Cernivtsi. Tadej Golob, Lejla Kalamujić and Petar Andonovski will participate. We kindly invite you to attend and meet all three authors and their work.
The event website: www.meridiancz.com/de/reading-balkans-in-chernivtsi/
Thursday, 23rd May, at 19h, Goga Book Store (Novo mesto, Slovenia)
Join us in Novo mesto where Renato Baretić is currently staying at the Goga Literary residency as a part of the Reading Balkans project!
The conversation will be moderated by Đurđa Strsoglavec.
Tuesday, 26th March 2019, at 19.00, Goga Book Store (Novo mesto)
Join us in Novo mesto where Marko Vidojković is currently staying at the Goga Literary residency as a part of the Reading Balkans project!
The conversation will be moderated by Erik Valenčič.
Tuesday, 26th February 2019, at 19.00, Goga Book Store (Novo mesto)
Join us for an evening with Ukranian translator and author Kateryna Kalytko!
We will fill find out something about her work, life in Ukraine and the author herself will read us some of her poetry and short prose.
The conversation, held in English, will be moderated by Breda Biščak.
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Open Call – Results
Literary Residence Program
Reading Balkans Residency
The Reading Balkans Board received 96 applications for this call. 21 applicants were selected.
The selected applicants for residency Goga (Novo mesto) are:
The selected applicants for residency Krokodil (Beograd) are:
The selected applicants for residency Goten (Skopje) are:
The selected applicants for residency Udruga Kurs (Split) are:
The selected applicants for residency Poeteka (Tirana) are:
The selected applicants for residency Qendra Multimedia (Prishtina) are:
The selected applicants for residency PEN BIH (Sarajevo) are:
We thank all applicants for the interest they have shown and the time and effort they have invested in preparing their application.
Reading Balkans Board
Deadline for the year 2019 has been extended – new deadline is November 4, 2018!
For the year 2019, the call for applications is launched for 21 authors. Each residency duration will be 4 weeks. All residencies will be arranged between March 1st and June 30th, 2019.