Description
Goten Publishing House in cooperation with the TRADUKI network invite writers and translators from Southeast Europe (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Romania) to apply for writers-in-residence program “Absolute Modern”, in Skopje, Macedonia.
The overall aim of the residency is to enable the contemporary Southeast European authors and translators to get more acquainted with literary, cultural, and social life in Macedonia, and particularly in Skopje, while at the same time the local audience gets to know the prominent regional literary scene. While in Skopje, the visiting writer/translator uses the time of scholarship to work on their current project.
Eligibility
Applicants eligible for this fellowship are fiction writers, poets, essayists, columnists, translators and playwrights. The residency is looking forward to writers who are innovative, experimental, who cope with contemporary themes in their works, or translators working on such translations.
Residency
- Accommodation in the city center;
- Travel costs covered by the organizer;
- Contribution to cost of living (€800 per month);
- A Wi-Fi internet connection;
- A cell‐phone with Macedonian number for the duration of the stay.
Deadline: 15 February 2015
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