Literature

Trame is a residency programme for French-speaking artists from around the world and all disciplines (exhibition curating, visual arts, performance, literature, cinema, music, architecture and design) who wish to develop a research and creative project in Paris for a period of three months in spring 2027.

HERside connects Košice (UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts) and Lviv (UNESCO Creative City of Literature). Six women working in culture – three from each country – will spend a month in the partner city developing new work on the theme of resilience amid war and other global challenges.

Bunnell Street Arts Center’s Alaska AIR residency programme seeks international, US and Alaska artists looking to create new work and strengthen the social, physical and economic fabric of Homer through the arts. Residencies of generally one month are scheduled in fall, winter and spring months of 2027 and 2028.

Goyki 3 Art Inkubator in Sopot, Poland, invites contemporary visual artists and literature professionals for a two-month residency (taking place either in Spring or Autumn 2027).

International Playwright Exchange – Writing Across Borders is an international artistic development project for playwrights and dramaturgs working in the field of theatre for children and young audiences.

CINEFIL invites visual artists, including digital arts, and/or writers to apply for a fully funded 90-day residency at a cultural centre Kino Úsmev in Košice, Slovakia from 1 March to 29 May 2027.

The German Commission for UNESCO (DUK) invites tenders from qualified experts, researchers and practitioners to develop three policy-oriented Discussion Papers on the concrete implementation of the Fair Culture initiative, with content as expressed in the Fair Culture Charter.

The Institute brings together a cohort of up to 15 Fellows, half of them Columbia faculty and post-docs, the other half artists and writers from around the world, to spend a year together in work and conversation.

The call for applications for the Tartu UNESCO City of Literature International Residency (15 October – 15 December 2026) is now open.

Scuola Piccola Zattere welcomes applications from artists and cultural practitioners, including curators, researchers, architects, choreographers, performers and writers, for the selection of two participants to the thematic-based fellowship programme, which will take place during the third season of activity, titled Living Document.

Granada UNESCO City of Literature has announced a new edition of its International Writers in Residence Programme in Granada.