Writers' News
Dutch Society of Authors meeting Trans Artists
Trans Artists organized with the Dutch Society of Authors in Amsterdam a meeting about author-in-residence opportunities. The space was packed with writers and translators, who listened to first-hand experiences by Erik Lindner, Willem Melchior, Rashid Novaire and translator Jeanne Holierhoek.
Script Writer Residency
Binger Filmlab and the Amsterdam Writer's Residency offer a special programme for literary writers in autumn 2010 to work on one of your own (un)published texts and adapt it into a film script.
E-T+T residency in Riga
Ever thought of thinking textile? Writing textile? Now you can, for months on a row, as resident writer in Riga.
E-T+T stands for Electronic Text and Textiles Project: a non-profit cultural organization based in Riga, the capital of Latvia. E-T+T welcomes artists and writers working across the fields of literature and the arts, in particular textiles related. The term of a residency can be as short as a week or as long as several months. The guest will have exclusive use of a live & work appartment in Riga, access to artists, writers, and culture administrators working in the Baltics, and continuing access to an extensive network of scholars working in electronic environments worldwide.
- Deadline: ongoing - preferably at least two months before the start of the expected residency.
- Application: electronic text + textiles project
Long term writing seclusion
In the heart of France the Foundation Pour que l'Esprit Vive innovated the old Cistercian abbey La Prée - founded in 1141 by Saint Bernard - into an artist in residence program. Since 1992 the abbey serves as a residence for artists, including writers and poets, to help them in their research and creation. The time spent at La Prée has to be at least 183 days! Mosts costs are for the guest, accommodation is free of charge. Deadline: April 1st, 2009. Read more about Pour Que l'Esprit Vive - Abbaye de la Prée.
Summer Literary Seminars
The seminars engage the participants in workshops in fiction, poetry, non-fiction, playwritings, translation, travel writing, lectures and readings with leading writers from around the world, as well as include exploratory excursions of the surrounding ...
Kunstenaarslogies
Kunstenaarslogies offers artists, writers, musicians, performers the opportunity to live and work in Amersfoort, Holland for a while. Three fully furnished appartments are therefore available.
KulttuuriKauppila
Through the AiR programme KulttuuriKauppila supports international art activities bringing multicultural dimension to the region. The guest artists are provided time and space to work in peace separated from the everyday haste and new contacts to the art ...
Creating Safe Havens for writers at risk
FreeDimensional is an arts and human rights service group, which creates safe havens at residential art centers for exiled artists, activists, writers, poets and citizen journalists in need of assistance. The group is located in New York City and established as a non-profit organization in 2006.
Founder of freeDimensional Todd Lester shares his thoughts on using artists' residencies as safe havens:
Creating Safe Haven
Studios in Berlin
Although the BBK (Berufsverband Bildender Künstler) in Berlin caters for visual artists, writers can benefit a lot from the studio lease program: have a look at BBK, Professional Association of Berlin Artists.
