Skip to the navigation Skip to the content

Open Call Literary Professionals

Lit-Quest Europe is looking to invite 9 literary professionals with extensive experience in their respective field to individual 5-day-residencies in Croatia, Slovania or Finland.

The Literary Professionals Residence Program is a part of the Lit-Quest Europe project, which is a cooperative initiative involving Publishing House Goga (SLO), Sandorf (CRO), and Helsinki Literary Agency (FIN). The Lit-Quest Europe project receives support from the EU Creative Europe program.

The Literary Professionals Residence Program for 2024 is open to welcome literary agents, editors and other literary professionals involved in promotion of authors and foreign rights from all eligible countries within the EACEA program:

EU Countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.

Non-EU Countries: Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom.

For the year 2024, the call for applications is open for 9 literary professionals.

  • Goga Publishing (Slovenia – Novo mesto): 3 residencies
  • Sandorf (Croatia – Zagreb): 3 residencies
  • Helsinki Literary Agency (Finland – Helsinki): 3 residencies

Each residency will have a duration of 5 days, scheduled between June 1st and November 30th, 2024.

Travel costs (up to 500 EUR), accommodation costs (up to 150 EUR per night), subsistence costs (50 EUR per person) and a lecture fee (300 EUR) are accounted for by the fellowship.

This sounds like something fitting your skill set?

Find more information here and the application form here.

Deadline: 15 February 2024

(c) Iñaki del Olmo

NEWSLETTER