The International Book Arsenal Festival invites teenagers to participate in the Antytvir 2025 project and become one of the authors published on the The International Book Arsenal site or one of the 5 teen choice shortlist nominees.

Antytvir is a project for teenagers in grades 8-11 who write, illustrate, and/or draw works using non-standard approaches. Antytvir usually takes place within the International Book Arsenal Festival.

Theme of the Antytvir 2025 is “Closer Than It Seems”. The authors behind the concept are members of the teenage creative writing project LitLab Teens.

We invite you to reflect on the subtle feeling of closeness—to people, to places, to events. About the moments of its recognition and manifestation. Its birth and disappearance. Write in what forms it comes to you. Or draw. As always, we do not limit your creative freedom to any formats

— the authors note.

Read more about this year’s topic.

We suggest participants to reflect on the following aspects of closeness:

• the subtle feeling of closeness—to people, to places, to events. In what forms does it come to you?
• the moments of its recognition and manifestation, its birth and disappearance from your own experience;
• ability (or inability) to measure the distance between human hearts or calculate the distance between yourself five years ago and yourself now.

To participate in the project, you need to:

• study in grades 8-11
• attach your work to the application form. The text should be in Ukrainian or English, up to 15,000 characters, with spaces in pdf format. The image should be in jpeg format. Participants can submit only text, or only illustration, or text and illustration together. Only one entry will be accepted.
• grant us access to your work on a cloud storage service you use.

The deadline is April 30th, 23:59. Upon the technical selection of works (checking for compliance with the language, volume of text, and image format), your works will be published on the Book Arsenal website. 5 participants will be shortlisted by our teenage jury and become visitors and collaborators to this year’s International Book Arsenal Festival in Kyiv, Ukraine.

View the Antytvir works from previous years here:

• Antytvir 2024
• Antytvir 2023
• Antytvir 2022

Book Arsenal is organized in cooperation with Art Arsenal Community NGO. The festival is supported by the International Renaissance Foundation.

Frankfurter Buchmesse in cooperation with the International Book Arsenal Festival and Goethe-Institut Ukraine announce the open call for the fourth season of the Special Programme for publishers from Ukraine and neighbouring countries.

The Special Programme for publishers from Ukraine and neighbouring countries is an intensive training and networking programme for publishers, editors, foreign rights managers and literary agents from Ukraine, Armenia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Georgia, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary within Frankfurter Buchmesse which will take place on 15—19 October, 2025.

Against the background of a significant reduction in culture funding in Germany and the suspension of a number of important traditional programs and projects of the Frankfurter Buchmesse, the preservation of the Special Program for this year is a sign of the priority of supporting the Ukrainian book publishing industry and the trust in us on the part of our German partners. And faith in us. I am sure that today this is one of the most effective professional growth programs for Ukrainian publishers focused on international activities

— Yuliia Kozlovets, the Director of the International Book Arsenal Festival.

In 2024, 15 publishers participated in the Programme, including 7 publishers from Ukraine. Read more about the Programme and the 2024 participants on the Frankfurter Buchmesse website.

The participation in the Programme 2025 includes:

• preparatory online seminars with advice on participation in Frankfurter Buchmesse and presentations of the book markets of the countries participating in the Programme;
• two-days seminar with experts of the German book market;
• participation in the official opening of Frankfurter Buchmesse;
• numerous events and opportunities for establishing professional contacts with international partners during Frankfurter Buchmesse.

Participation requirements:

• at least two years of professional experience in publishing with a focus on rights and licensing trade;
• a good command of English;
• being a publishing professional from Ukraine, Armenia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Georgia, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary.

To apply

The Special Programme for Publishers from Ukraine and neighboring countries is a professional programme launched by Frankfurter Buchmesse in 2022 as part of a strategic partnership and in cooperation with the International Book Arsenal Festival and Goethe-Institut Ukraine.

The Special Programme for Publishers from Ukraine and neighboring countries is subject to financial support by the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany.

The International Book Arsenal Festival announces an open call for participation in the Book Arsenal Fellowship Program 2025.

Foreign publishers, rights managers, literary agents and other professionals of the book industry interested in cooperation with Ukraine are invited to participate in the competitive selection.

The Book Arsenal Fellowship Program is a professional program of the International Book Arsenal Festival that contributes to strengthening international cooperation with Ukraine in the book field by establishing direct contacts between professionals from Ukraine and abroad and acquainting with the local literary and book scenes. The program was launched in 2024 and is annual.

The second season of the Book Arsenal Fellowship Program again offers publishers and literary agents from different countries the opportunity to expand their business, to find new partners and to gain a deeper understanding of the global publishing industry. And also to support Ukraine and their Ukrainian colleagues. The format of our program brings together caring professionals who are ready to promote sustainability, innovation and international cooperation in our critical times

—Yuliia Kozlovets, Director of the International Book Arsenal Festival.

In 2025, the Book Arsenal Fellowship Program will be held for the second time despite Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine. Up to 8 foreign professionals will be selected to participate in the Book Arsenal Fellowship Program, who will attend the 13th International Book Arsenal Festival, which will be held on May 29-June 1, 2025 in Kyiv. The program is curated by cultural manager, organizer of book and educational programs and projects Oksana Karpiuk.

The participation in the program will include presentations-acquainting events with the Ukrainian book market, field-specific institutions and the opportunities they provide, attending the festival events and B2B meetings with Ukrainian publishers.

The application for participation in the Book Arsenal Fellowship Program, Kyiv, Ukraine is open at the link. The submission deadline is March 9 inclusive.

FILL IN THE APPLICATION

The applicants selected for the participation in the program will have received confirmation by April 4. The Book Arsenal Fellowship Program covers participants’ travel expenses and accommodation costs in Kyiv for the duration of the program.

The address for questions and clarifications is [email protected]. In the subject of the letter, please, indicate Book Arsenal Fellowship Program, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Book Arsenal is an international event organized by the Mystetskyi Arsenal. The festival has been held since 2011, and has become one of the most influential literary and artistic events in Eastern Europe. In 2019, it won The Literary Festival Award of the International Excellence Awards. The mission of the International Book Arsenal Festival is to create such interactions between people, communities, institutions when the combination of aesthetic experience and intellectual inclusion in the context of a book strengthens the capacity of a person and society.

The Book Arsenal Fellowship Program takes place within the 13th International Book Arsenal Festival and is supported by the International Renaissance Foundation.

This year, Book Arsenal will be held from May 29 (the evening of the official opening) to June 1. The festival will consist of the program component and the book fair on the first floor of the Old Arsenal building.

The festival’s focus theme will be curated by historian, professor of European intellectual history at Yale University Marci Shore, and writer, translator, publisher and member of  PEN Ukraine  Oksana Forostyna.

This year, Book Arsenal will be held already for the thirteenth time, and we will take every effort to turn it into the place of the most important conversation that makes Arsenal so special and beloved. The very place where like-minded people meet, where arts and experiences come together, the place of joy and shared sadness, the place of reflection on the most difficult issues that affect everyone in Ukraine. I am very grateful to Marci and Oksana for their work on the focus theme: having the privilege of observing the working process, I am sure that it will be a deep and at the same time global in its breadth conversation. The theme itself will be announced soon—in March

— Director General of the Mystetskyi Arsenal Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta.

Publishing houses and bookstores are invited to be sales operators at the exhibition-fair; they can offer their conceptions in one of six sections: Art Books, Fiction, Non-fiction, Books for Kids and Teens, Comics and Graphic and Books in Foreign Languages. Special conditions will apply to small publishing houses—those with 2 to 10 published books in their publishing portfolio. We are also returning to the tradition of the Illustrators’ Fair.

The Book Arsenal program, which will be developed by the invited curators, will include events within the festival’s focus theme, the Main Program, the Kids and Teens Program and the Professional Program.

Book Arsenal will host the Translatorium Literary and Translation Festival with the Special Program.

Lectures, discussions, performances, public interviews and poetry readings will take place on seven stages of the festival. We will also present exhibition projects during Book Arsenal.

The Festival will also host the annual professional Book Arsenal Fellowship Program for foreign publishers and literary agents, that contributes to strengthening international cooperation with Ukraine in the book field by establishing direct contacts between professionals from Ukraine and abroad and acquainting with the local literary and book scenes.

Book Arsenal starts accepting applications for stand participation in the fair. The deadline is February 28, 2025.

By March 21, 2025, all applicants will have received answers about the selection results to the email addresses specified in the applications.

For the safety of the participants of the fair and the events the simplest bomb shelter is available in the Mystetskyi Arsenal.

Book Arsenal is an international event organized by the Mystetskyi Arsenal. The festival has been held since 2011, and has become one of the most influential literary and artistic events in Eastern Europe. In 2019, it won The Literary Festival Award of the International Excellence Awards. The mission of the International Book Arsenal Festival is to create such interactions between people, communities, institutions when the combination of aesthetic experience and intellectual inclusion in the context of a book strengthens the capacity of a person and society.

Book Arsenal is organized in cooperation with Art Arsenal Community NGO. The festival is supported by the International Renaissance Foundation.

We are pleased to announce the start of accepting applications for the ninth Best Book Design Contest. Books that were published from December 2023 to November 2024 inclusive and were not previously submitted to the Contest are eligible. We are accepting your applications until November 28, participation in the Contest is free of charge.

Winners will be selected in the following categories:

• Word book (books in which the textual part dominates; poetry, prose, fiction, non-fiction);
• Art book (books about art, albums, photo books, catalogs);
• Utilitarian book (books mostly of an applied nature, non-fiction, popular science books, scientific, educational literature, guidebooks, cookbooks, specialized periodicals, etc.);
• Visual storytelling (books of any genre, in which the story is told with the help of visual means, including children’s books, comics);
• Experiment (self-published books, photo books, art books and limited editions, zines, etc.).

Jury members of the Best Book Design — 2024 Contest:

• Valeriia Guievska, Art Director of the Mystetskyi Arsenal;
• Zakentiy Horobyov, graphic designer, typographer, illustrator;
• Anna Ivanenko, Studio Seri/graph;
• Dasha Podoltseva, graphic designer, visual artist;
• Anatoly Popel, founder and CEO of CASES and Creative Practice;
• Kuba Sowiński, graphic designer, lecturer (Poland);
• Olena Staranchuk, co-curator of Pictoric.

Among the books submitted to the Contest, a short list of finalists will be selected (15 books, 3 books in each of the Contest categories), from which the jury will select the winners in each category (5 winners). Among the winners in the 5 categories, the main winner—the Grand Prix of the Contest—will be selected.

Over the years of its existence the Best Book Design Contest has already acquired history, traditions and heroes. But it also changes, improves and develops every year, just like book design itself. The award to the winners today is honorary national distinction, accordingly increased attention of the professional and bibliophile community and the media, an additional marketing tool for book promotion, a sign of due respect for the professionals who create cool books in Ukraine, despite all the obstacles and difficulties of our time. But it is also an opportunity to promote the best examples of Ukrainian book art abroad, to consolidate the presence of Ukrainian books on the world map of the best book design

—Yuliia Kozlovets, the Director of the International Book Arsenal Festival.

Last year’s book design contest opened up new horizons: the winners got the opportunity to visit the German National Library and creative design studios in Leipzig. Our partnership in the field of book design continues growing qualitatively, and we are sure that we have a lot to give each other. We hope that this year’s book design scene will present even more bright events and inspiration for us to move forward together in this sphere

—Marietta Sander, the Director of the Goethe-Institut Library Ukraine.

Before submitting an application to the Contest, please read Regulations.

Regulations

Submit an application

We are accepting applications until November 28, 2024 inclusive. It is important that the book has been published between December 2023 and November 2024. Please, send physical copies of books by post or courier to the address of the Mystetsky Arsenal office:

Public Enterprise “National Art and Culture Museum Complex “Mystetskyi Arsenal”, 10-12 Lavrska St., Kyiv, 01010. Contact person for delivery—Maryna Askurava, +380667438737.

The Best Book Design Contest was launched by the Mystetskyi Arsenal in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Ukraine during the International Book Arsenal Festival in 2016. The winners of this year’s contest will be announced in early December 2024 on the website and social media of the International Book Arsenal Festival.

The finalists of the contest will represent Ukrainian book design in the international competition organized by the German Buchkunst Foundation; the winning books will also be exhibited at the international book fairs in Leipzig and Frankfurt. The author who has contributed the most to the Grand Prix-winning book will be invited to a professional trip to Germany in 2025.

The Contest is held by the International Book Arsenal Festival in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Ukraine.

The project partners are the Frankfurter Buchmesse and the Buchkunst Foundation.

The media partners  of the  Best Book Design — 2024 Contest are  CASES

and   The Village Ukraine.

The address for questions and clarifications (indicate НКД/BBD in the subject line of the letter)—[email protected].

The International Book Arsenal Festival invites teenagers to participate in the Antytvir 2024 project and become one of the authors published in a print collection of works.

Antytvir is a project for teenagers in grades 8-11 who write, illustrate, and/or draw works using non-standard approaches. Antytvir usually takes place within the International Book Arsenal Festival.

Theme of the Antytvir 2024 is “FRAGILE. Handle with care”.

Your experience with fragile objects, life beings, worlds, and fragile self, matters. It is a valuable evidence of our emotional and spiritual resilience against harshening and numbness dictated by our hostile reality. This experience deserves to be described and shown to the world as if it were a delicate and exquisite flower gently held in your open palms

—the team members note.

Read more about this year’s topic.

We suggest participants to reflect on the following aspects of fragility:

• the soft power that your vulnerability can grant you and its role in life
• the fragility of material and non-material objects, as well as living beings
• your own experience with fragility, vulnerability, and sensitivity

To participate in the project, you need to:

• study in grades 8-11
• attach your work to the application form. The text should be in Ukrainian or English, up to 15,000 characters, with spaces in pdf format. The image should be in jpeg format. Participants can submit only text, or only illustration, or text and illustration together. Only one entry will be accepted.

The deadline is April 14th, 23:59. Upon the technical selection of works (checking for compliance with the language, volume of text, and image format), your works will be published on the Book Arsenal website. The works of 20 shortlisted participants will be published in a printed collection of Antytvir works in Ukrainian and English languages.

The educational programme for the participants will be held in the month of April. It includes a series of online workshops by creative writing professionals, writers, and illustrators.

Antytvir 2024 is organized in cooperation with Art Arsenal Community NGO. The project is supported by Partnership Fund for Resilient Ukraine (PFRU), funded by aid from the governments of the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, the United States of America, Finland, Switzerland, Sweden.

View the Antytvir works from previous years here:

• Antytvir 2023
• Antytvir 2022
• Antytvir 2021

The greatest value of the project for me is that it creates a space where teenagers can freely express their opinion and be heard, and also find an environment of like-minded people from all over the country

– Julia Konopliana is a mentor of the educational program of Antytvir 2023, curator of Teenside teenage editorial board.

Frankfurter Buchmesse in cooperation with the International Book Arsenal Festival and Goethe-Institut Ukraine announce the open call for the third season of the Special Programme for publishers from Ukraine and neighbouring countries.

The Special Programme for publishers from Ukraine and neighbouring countries is an intensive training and networking programme for publishers, editors, foreign rights managers and literary agents from Armenia, Azerbaijan, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic, and Ukraine within Frankfurter Buchmesse which will take place on 16-20 October, 2024.

This year the Programme will be held for the third time. In 2023, 15 publishers participated in the Programme, including 9 publishers from Ukraine. Read more about the Programme and the 2023 participants on the Frankfurter Buchmesse website.

The participation in the Programme 2024 includes:

• preparatory online seminars with advice on participation in Frankfurter Buchmesse and presentations of the book markets of the countries participating in the Programme;
• one-day seminar with experts of the German book market;
• participation in the official opening of Frankfurter Buchmesse;
• numerous events and opportunities for establishing professional contacts with international partners during Frankfurter Buchmesse.

Participation requirements:

• at least two years of professional experience in publishing with a focus on rights and licensing trade;
• a good command of English;
• being a publishing professional from Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic.

To apply

The Special Programme for Publishers from Ukraine and neighboring countries is a professional programme launched by Frankfurter Buchmesse in 2022 as part of a strategic partnership and in cooperation with the International Book Arsenal Festival and Goethe-Institut Ukraine.

The Special Programme for Publishers from Ukraine and neighboring countries is subject to financial support by the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany.

The International Book Arsenal Festival launches the Book Arsenal Fellowship Program, Kyiv, Ukraine and announces the call for applications for the international audience of book professionals.

Foreign publishers, rights managers, literary agents and other professionals of the book industry interested in cooperation with Ukraine are invited to participate in the competitive selection.

The Book Arsenal Fellowship Program, Kyiv, Ukraine is a professional program of the International Book Arsenal Festival that will contribute to strengthening international cooperation with Ukraine in the book field by establishing direct contacts between professionals from Ukraine and abroad and acquainting with the local literary and book scenes. The program is planned as an annual one. The Book Arsenal Fellowship Program 2024 will take place despite Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine.

The application for participation in the Book Arsenal Fellowship Program, Kyiv, Ukraine is open at the link. The submission deadline is March 22 inclusive. The applicants selected for the participation in the program will have received confirmation by April 12. The Book Arsenal Fellowship Program, Kyiv, Ukraine, covers travel expenses and accommodation costs in Kyiv for the duration of the program.

Oksana Karpiuk, Manager of Programs for Professional Audiences of the International Book Arsenal Festival:

“For many seasons, the International Book Arsenal Festival has been actively working to attract an international audience within the festival in Kyiv and at the international venues. Through the Book Arsenal Fellowship Program, we strengthen this direction and hope to turn the program into an annual practice. The program offers foreign professionals the opportunity to learn more about the Ukrainian book industry, to establish personal contacts with Ukrainian colleagues or to maintain the existing ones. Given that, unfortunately, the participants of the first season of the program will visit Book Arsenal during the full-scale war, we invite those professionals who are ready to respond to the existing challenges by cooperation with Ukrainian publishers and who seek to testify to the special demand for cultural practices, books and literature through their participating in the program and the festival.”

Up to 8 professionals will be selected to participate in the Book Arsenal Fellowship Program, Kyiv, Ukraine, who will attend the 12th International Book Arsenal Festival, which will be held on May 30-June 2, 2024 in Kyiv.

The participation in the program will include presentation events-acquainting with the Ukrainian book market, field-specific institutions and the opportunities they provide, attending the festival events and B2B meetings with Ukrainian publishers.

Fill in the application

The address for questions and clarifications is [email protected]. In the subject of the letter, please, indicate “Book Arsenal Fellowship Program, Kyiv, Ukraine”.

Book Arsenal is an international event organized by the Mystetskyi Arsenal. The festival has been held since 2011, and has become one of the most influential literary and artistic events in Eastern Europe. In 2019, it won The Literary Festival Award of the International Excellence Awards. The mission of the International Book Arsenal Festival is to create such interactions between people, communities, institutions when the combination of aesthetic experience and intellectual inclusion in the context of a book strengthens the capacity of a person and society. 

The Book Arsenal Fellowship Program, Kyiv, Ukraine, takes place for the first time within the 12th International Book Arsenal Festival and is supported by Partnership Fund for Resilient Ukraine (PFRU), funded by aid from the governments of the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, the United States of America, Finland, Switzerland, Sweden.

For the second time during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the team of the Mystetskyi Arsenal prepares Book Arsenal, which will combine artistic and literary components, meetings with writers, publishers, poetry evenings and many other book-related events.

Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta, the Director General of the Mystetskyi Arsenal:

“Our team is sure that culture helps form the international coalition in support of Ukraine. However, this is not the only point. From recent history, we know perfectly well where the annihilation of cultural life leads to: the decline of original thought, the loss of political subjectness, the transformation of a suffered tragedy into a devastating trauma. We, Ukrainians, cannot afford this. We cannot afford to stop comprehending our reality, creating the new, experimenting with ideas and forms—doing all those things which are culture.

Book Arsenal does exactly that—it creates the stimulating environment in which something new and important is born, where the difficult is discussed and the painful is healed. Therefore, we will do everything in our power for the festival to be held in the best possible way this year.”

This year, the 12th International Book Arsenal Festival will be held from May 30 (the evening of the official opening) to June 2. The festival will consist of the program component and the book fair, which will take place on the first floor of the Old Arsenal building.

Both separate publishing houses and bookstores are invited to be sales operators of books that will present books in the sections Art Books, Fiction, Non-fiction, Books for Kids and Teens , Comics and Graphic.

Of course the focus of Book Arsenal will be on the books about the war published after 2014, the editions produced by war veterans, members of their families. In addition to the fair at the publishers’ stands, they will be presented separately in the space New Titles.

The program of this year’s Book Arsenal, curated by invited experts, will include events within the focus theme of the festival, the Literature Program, the Kids and Teens Program, the Special Program from PEN Ukraine, professional events for publishers. Book Arsenal will host the guest Literary Festival The Fifth Kharkiv with a special program. This will be the program in collaboration with and curated by the Kharkiv Literary Museum. Lectures, discussions, performances and poetry readings will take place on five stages of the festival. Exhibition art projects from contemporary artists will also become an important voice during Book Arsenal.

For the safety of the participants of the fair and the events the simplest bomb shelter is available in the Mystetskyi Arsenal.

Book Arsenal starts accepting applications for participation in the fair. The deadline is February 29, 2024.

By March 22, 2024, all applicants will have received answers about the selection results to the email addresses specified in the applications.

Book Arsenal is an international event organized by the Mystetskyi Arsenal. The festival has been held since 2011, and has become one of the most influential literary and artistic events in Eastern Europe. In 2019, it won The Literary Festival Award of the International Excellence Awards. The mission of the International Book Arsenal Festival is to create such interactions between people, communities, institutions when the combination of aesthetic experience and intellectual inclusion in the context of a book strengthens the capacity of a person and society.

Book Arsenal is organized in cooperation with Art Arsenal Community NGO. This project is supported by Partnership Fund for Resilient Ukraine (PFRU), funded by aid from the governments of the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States.

Book Arsenal – 2024 is also held with the financial support of the Ministry of State for Culture and the Media of Germany within the project Exchange between German and Ukrainian Literary and Book Sectors.

The International Book Arsenal Festival team is delighted to join the large-scale European project CELA for the first time.

What is CELA?

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA) is an international talent development project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the EU. It is a 4-year project that connects emerging translators from 11 European countries (10 languages) with emerging writers through masterclasses, sample translations, mentorship, presentations and live meetings. CELA aims to offer literary artists from small language markets in Europe a level playing field to establish an international career, reach an international audience and develop their professional skills.

CELA offers emerging writers, translators, literary professionals, and literary organisations a two-year trajectory of training, tools and network with the aim of facilitating an international career and building a combined professional practice.

Open-call for translators for the third edition of CELA! The International Book Arsenal Festival is looking for 10 emerging translators to take part in the programme from September 2024 to June 2027.

We are looking for translators in the following directions:

Spanish — Ukrainian;
Italian — Ukrainian;
Polish — Ukrainian;
Dutch — Ukrainian;
Serbian — Ukrainian;
Slovenian — Ukrainian;
Czech — Ukrainian;
Romanian — Ukrainian;
Bulgarian — Ukrainian.

What do we offer:

• paid translation assignments of 6 sample (prose) texts from emerging writers in your source language;
• a voice/vote in the selection of participating writers;
• publication of these translations on the CELA website and other literary platforms across Europe;
• 4 international online masterclasses on relevant professionalisation topics;
• professional communication tool kit with headshot and artist bio;
• mentorship programme: you will work with an established translator in the same translation direction and with a literary consultant;
• 2 live national team meeting in Kyiv;
• 2 live project wide work week (in Turin, Italy and in Brussels, Belgium);
• 2 visits to a literary festival in your target language country;
• paid and mentored pitching assignment of (at least) one of your writers;
• connection to an international network of more than 300 writers, translators and literary organisations in Europe.

What do we ask:

• you are a literary translator of prose (fiction and non-fiction both apply) in Ukrainian;
• you have published a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 3 literary translations in either an established literary magazine or with a national quality publishing house;
• you are a final year student at a translation faculty or just entering your professional translation career. You have graduated from an academic literary translation course and/or have proven your potential through literary translation programmes, and have experience of working with publishing houses;
• you are willing and able to prioritise your participation in this project, you can make the time and (head)space to dedicate focus to the activities, and you are able and willing to communicate with partner organisations and other participants (the common project language is English).

Participation in this project is free of charge. Participants are responsible for complying with the terms and conditions of participation and completing the project. CELA covers travel, accommodation and subsistence costs for live activities.

Are you interested in participating? Be encouraged to apply now!

Your application should consist of 3 documents:

a relevant and current resume (maximum 1 A4) that has at least: your full name, contact details, where you currently live and work, and relevant information about your practice and experience as a translator (please add links to your work!) and your education;
a motivation letter (maximum 1 A4) that explains why you should be considered as a candidate for CELA and what you hope to gain from it;
a letter of recommendation (maximum 1 A4) from an established translator or professor.

Application form

Deadline: March 1, 2024. Submit your application via the online form, where you can attach all the necessary documents in pdf format.

If you have any questions, check the CELA website or reach out to [email protected], please indicate “CELA project” in the subject of the email.

A committee of professionals from the project staff, CELA alumni and editors will select candidates, taking into account the above-mentioned criteria. Also, CELA takes inclusion seriously and strives to choose participants that are representative for our diverse societies.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.