The Visegrad Literary Residency Program, established 2012 by the International Visegrad Fund, consists of a series of residency stays and literary events addressed to writers of fiction and non-fiction, poets, essayists, critics as well as literary translators, publicists and journalists from the Visegrad Countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia).
It is based on a partnership of 4 Host Institutions, one in each V4 country: Institut umeni (Arts Institute) in Prague, Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum (Petőfi Literary Museum) in Budapest, Stowarzyszenie Willa Decjusza (Villa Decius Association) in Krakow and Literarné informačné centrum (Centre for Information on Literature) in Bratislava.
The Program will provide opportunities to host from and in all V4 member states and to support work and mobility of talented Literary Residents, to create a platform for information exchange and to support development and promotion of the V4 literature in Central Europe.
The Villa Decius Association acts as the Coordinator of the Program.
Each edition of the Program enables 32 Literary Residents to carry their literary projects in 4 Host Institutions in one of the given periods: 1st May – 12th June (Compact Spring Edition) or 1st September – 30th November (Regular Autumn Edition).
Each of the Host Institutions is responsible for organizing two stays of two groups of 4 Literary Residents each (one from the Czech Republic, one from Hungary, one from Poland and one from Slovakia), who are working on their individual literary projects, and also participating together in literary event(s) organized in the hosting city by the Host Institution.
The recruitment process of 32 grantees of the Program is based on individual applications submitted via an online application form, which is yearly opened on the website of the Villa Decius Association.
The residences are assigned to applicants in a 3 stage selection process by a national and international Selection Panel on the basis of proportional and equal involvement of Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak residents and Host Institutions.
More information and helpdesk:
Małgorzata Różańska- Braniecka: gosia@villa.org.pl
