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.
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.