The International Book Arsenal Festival announces an open call for participation in the Book Arsenal Fellowship Program 2026.

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.

For us, the third round of the Book Arsenal Fellowship Program is a continuation of the conversation and partnerships that emerged in the previous two seasons, as well as a way to maintain a lively connection between literatures of different countries. To participate in the program, we select the international publishers and literary agents, for whom cooperation with Ukraine is a sincere professional interest and a space for mutual enrichment. And Book Arsenal is exactly the event that best motivates to establish cooperation and inspires love for Ukraine

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

In 2026, the Book Arsenal Fellowship Program will be held for the third 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 14th International Book Arsenal Festival, which will be held on May 28-May 31, 2026 in Kyiv.

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:

TO FILL IN A FORM

The submission deadline is March 9 inclusive.

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 14th International Book Arsenal Festival and is supported by the International Renaissance Foundation.

This year, Book Arsenal will be held from May 28 (the evening of the official opening) to May 31. The festival will consist of the program component and the book fair on the first floor of the Old Arsenal building.

The curator of the Focus Theme of the festival will be human rights activist, military serviceman, public figure and journalist Maksym Butkevych.

Writer, military serviceman and volunteer Andriy Lyubka will curate the Writer’s Program.

We are working hard on Book Arsenal-2026 and believe that it will be exceptional. I am grateful to Maksym and Andriy for their trust and willingness to work with us to make Book Arsenal exactly what we love it for: intelligent, relevant to its time, intellectually profound and aesthetically captivating. We will do everything possible to achieve this and, if necessary, even a little bit of impossible. Because Book Arsenal is the festival that gives us all hope and encourages us all to think, work and experience the joy of being, even in difficult times

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

Publishing houses and bookstores are invited to be sales operators at the exhibition-fair. Bookstores will present selections of books in foreign languages.

Special conditions will apply to small publishing houses—those with 2 to 10 published books in their publishing portfolio. We also invite artists to participate in the Illustrators’ Fair.

The Book Arsenal program, which will be developed by invited curators, will include events within the Focus Theme of the Festival, the Main Program, the Writer’s Program, the Kids and Teens Program, the Professional Program, as well as performative and musical events. We will also present exhibition projects and special programs of the festival.

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.

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 tenth Best Book Design Contest!

Books that were published from December 2024 to November 2025 and were not previously submitted to the Contest are eligible. We are accepting your applications until November 27, 2025 (inclusive), participation in the Contest is free of charge.

The decade of the Best Book Design Contest allows us to see how Ukrainian book design has evolved over the years, to track changes and trends. It is gratifying that this project has grown significantly since its launch and today it truly fulfills its original goal—contributes to the formation of the culture of high-quality publishing in Ukraine, enhances the international visibility of Ukrainian book design, raises the prestige of the design profession, helps promote high-quality books and stimulates the development of the industry

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

Due to the efforts of many institutions and specialists, the German book scene is increasingly discovering Ukrainian book publishing. The participation of the winners of the Ukrainian contest in the German contest The Most Beautiful Books of the World plays an important role here.

This year, illustrator, gallerist and publisher Annette Koehn will join the jury of the Best Book Design Contest in Ukraine. Her participation is of particular importance for the Goethe-Institut, as it is not only about expert involvement, but also about a lively exchange of experience, not abroad, but in Ukraine itself. Contact with the Ukrainian creative community opens up new perspectives for German colleagues either—it shows how design in times of trial becomes a form of comprehending reality, a space for professional growth and cultural diplomacy

—Maria Shubchyk, the Head of Communication at the Goethe-Institut Ukraine.

Winners will be selected in five categories:

• Word book (books in which the textual part dominates; poetry, prose, fiction, non-fiction)
• Art book (books about art, albums, photo books, catalogs, artbooks)
• 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, limited editions, zines, editions that use non-traditional printing formats, experiments with visual design, etc.)

Jury members of this year’s Contest:

• Lizaveta German, curator, art historian, co-founder of The Naked Room gallery
• Zakentiy Horobyov, graphic designer, typographer, illustrator
• Glib Kaporikov, graphic and book designer, design director at Projector
• Oleksandra Korchevska-Tsekhosh, graphic, type and digital designer, researcher of Ukrainian design
• Annette Koehn, illustrator, comic artist, publisher (Germany)
• Zhenya Oliinyk, illustrator
• Natasha Chychasova, curator of contemporary art

Among the books submitted to the Contest, a long list (up to 45 books) and a short list of finalists (15 books, 3 books in each of the Contest categories) will be selected, from them the jury will select the winners in each category (5 winners). Among the winners in the 5 categories the Grand Prix Winner of the Contest will be selected.

SUBMIT AN APPLICATION

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

REGULATIONS

We are waiting for the applications until November 27, 2025 inclusive. Please, deliver physical copies of the books to the address of the Mystetskyi Arsenal office by courier delivery (Ukrposhta, Nova Post, Meest) marked Best Book Design; the books have to be delivered at the sender’s expense or bring them in person to the office of the Public Enterprise “National Art and Culture Museum Complex “Mystetskyi Arsenal”.

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

The results of the tenth Best Book Design — 2025 Contest will be announced in early December 2025 on the social media and website 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 project partner is the Buchkunst Foundation.

The media partners of the Best Book Design — 2025 Contest are the online platform for creative industries CASES and the Telegram Channel Design-Borshch.

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 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 May 5th, 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.