Europe offers plentiful opportunities for writers to immerse themselves in their craft and develop their skills in inspiring settings. Browse current residency opportunities here.
The Maison de la poésie d’Amay is a non-profit organization which hosts residencies for poets from all over the world for stays ranging from two weeks to two months. The program aims to give writers the chance to devote themselves to a poetic project. The writers in residence are provided with a studio. Projects that are close to completion are accepted as well as new ideas.
As an international house of literature, the Passa Porta is a cultural institution that hosts poetry, art and culture in Brussels. Every year Passa Porta offers residence to nine foreign authors in Brussels. The institution creates the ideal work environment for literary projects and writing. Writers are enabled to stay for a minimum of four and a maximum of eight weeks in a spacious apartment and are involved in the Belgian cultural life and the network of the house of literature.
La Bellone offers several residencies in all literary disciplines. There is a residency for works of dramaturgy, research, creation and writing. Residency formats are aimed at artists from different niches: artists coming out of schools, young artists and established artists. For each resident and according to their specific needs, a workspace will be provided, lunch will be taken care of and a partnership will be set up with the Documentation Centre and the team of La Bellone.
In 2009, the Wallonia-Brussels Federation entrusted the CED-WB (Centre des écritures dramatiques Wallonie-Bruxelles) with the cultural and practical management of a theatrical writing residency, in partnership with the Royal Museum of Mariemont. The Mariemont residence is mainly intended to welcome a playwright (Belgian or foreign) for a period of two to eight weeks at a location near the Mariemont Museum.
Supported by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation with the aim of promoting the translation of French-speaking Belgian letters and encouraging the circulation of Belgian authors abroad, the residency provides translators from all over the world with an ideal environment. The duration of the stay is between two weeks minimum and one month.
