From the competition website: The Bournemouth Writing Prize Celebrating 10 Years of Outstanding Writing Submissions open April 2025 for the Tenth Anniversary Edition of the Bournemouth Writing Prize. This year, we’re celebrating a decade of discovering original writing, and we’d love to read yours. Submit one story, up to 3,000 words. All submissions close: 15th of August. To enter: Submit - The...
Forced to leave her native Hungary by the 1956 suppression of the Hungarian Uprising, Ágota Kristóf took up residence in Switzerland and began writing in French. Most famous for her Notebook Trilogy – ‘A book through which I discovered what kind of person I really want to be’ (Slavoj Žižek) – her short stories, now available for...
Argentinian author, Samanta Schweblin, celebrates the UK publication of her latest short story collection, Good and Evil and Other Stories (translated by Megan McDowell). Samanta will be in conversation about the book, before answering questions from the audience and signing copies of her books.
The Hodder Fellowship will be given to artists and writers of exceptional promise to pursue independent projects at Princeton University during the academic year. Potential Hodder Fellows are composers, choreographers, performance artists, visual artists, writers, translators, or other kinds of artists or humanists who have “much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts”; they are...
Work Grant awarded by the "Kulturstiftung Rhein-Neckar-Kreis e.V." in cooperation with Heidelberg UNESCO City of Literature for authors from UNESCO Cities of Literature in the “Commandant’s House Dilsberg”, at Dilsberg Fortress, in Neckargemünd (approximately 14 km from Heidelberg). The building served as the Commandant’s quarters of the Dilsberg garrison in the 17th century. The former...