The National Centre for Writing is collaborating with the International House of Literature Passa Porta and Flanders Literature to offer a month-long writing residency in Brussels in 2026.
The exact date of the residency will be agreed by Passa Porta with the successful applicant.
The residency is part of an exchange with the National Centre for Writing, who will hosting two writers from Flanders in Norwich in April 2026.
Passa Porta is a multilingual house of literature at the heart of Brussels, providing a showcase, a platform and a workplace for literature.
This residency will offer the writer a quiet place to write. However, there will be the opportunity to take part in public events in Flanders and Brussels, as well as to meet and collaborate with fellow authors and translators.
The writer will be offered free accommodation in a self-catering flat at the Passa Porta house of literature. The National Centre for Writing will cover the cost of train travel to and from Brussels and Passa Porta will pay a stipend of 1200 euros towards living expenses.
This opportunity is open to writers based in England. It is open to writers of novels, short stories, poetry or literary non-fiction. Authors working on a manuscript as part of academic research do not qualify. The author must have had at least one work published by a literary publisher (not self-published).
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Deadline: Monday 1 September 2025