Devote time to writing in Spring 2019. The National Centre for Writing is collaborating with Passa Porta and the Flemish Literature Fund to offer a writing residency in Brussels in 2019. The residency is open to writers based in England and will run from 29 April until 27 May 2019.
The deadline for applications is Monday 3 September 2018.
Passa Porta is a multilingual house of literature at the heart of fashionable Brussels, providing a showcase, a platform and a work-place for literature. It has a broad network of contacts with the press, publishers, translators and cultural organisations in Belgium and abroad.
This residency will offer the writer a quiet place where they can withdraw to work on a manuscript. 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.
Passa Porta will invite the writer to leave a ‘literary trace’ of his or her stay – in other words, a short text of fiction (1000 words), rooted partially in reality. The text will be published on the website and may be used by Passa Porta in future publications to promote the residence project.
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 travel to and from Brussels and will pay a small stipend towards living expenses.
This opportunity is open to writers f novels, short storieos or poetry, children’s or young adult literature or literary non-fiction. The author must have had at least one work published by a literary publisher (not self-published) and be based in England.
Further details and to apply here
The deadline for applications is Monday 3 September 2018.