About

The Visegrad Literary Residency Program, consists of a series of residency stays and literary events addressed to writers of fiction and non-fiction, poets, essayists, critics as well as literary translators, publicists and journalists from the Visegrad Countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia). The Villa Decius Association acts as the Coordinator of the Program.

It is based on a partnership of 4 Host Institutions, one in each V4 country: 

Národní institut pro kulturu (Czech Cultural Institute, previously Arts and Theatre Institute) in Prague

Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum (Petőfi Literary Museum) in Budapest, 

Stowarzyszenie Willa Decjusza (Villa Decius Association) in Krakow and 

Slovenské literárne centrum (Slovak Literary Centre) in Bratislava.

The Program will provide opportunities to host from and in all V4 member states and support work and mobility of talented Literary Residents, to create a platform for information exchange and to support development and promotion of the V4 literature in Central Europe.

Program will enable 32 Literary Residents to carry their literary projects in 4 Host Institutions in one of the given periods: 1st May – 12th June (Compact Spring Edition) or 1st September – 30th November (Regular Autumn Edition).

Each of the Host Institutions will be responsible for organizing two stays of two groups of 4 Literary Residents each (one from the Czechia, one from Hungary, one from Poland and one from Slovakia), who will be working on their individual literary projects, and also participate together in literary event(s) organized in the hosting city by the Host Institution.

The recruitment process of 32 grantees of the Program (8 from the Czech Republic, 8 from Hungary, 8 from Poland and 8 Slovakia) will be based on individual applications submitted via an online application form. For more information on the conditions and implementation of stays in residences, please refer to the Literary Residencies Criteria.

The residences will be assigned to applicants in a 3 stage selection process by a national and international Selection Panel on the basis of proportional and equal involvement of Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak residents and Host Institutions.

Questions regarding the Literary Residency Program should be addressed to Pawel Lyzwiński and technical problems with online application address to Darina Madleňáková.

Conditions

• The 2027 edition of the Program will enable 32 Literary Residents to carry their literary projects in 4 Host Institutions in one of the given periods: 1st May – 12th June 2027 (Compact Spring Edition) or 1st September – 30th November 2027 (Regular Autumn Edition).
• The amount of support is €1,300 for the Compact Spring Edition and €2,600 for Regular Autumn Edition.

• Each of the Host Institutions will be responsible for organizing two stays of two groups of 4 Literary Residents each (one from the Czech Republic, one from Hungary, one from Poland and one from Slovakia), who will be working on their individual literary projects, and also participate together in literary event(s) organized in the hosting city by the Host Institution.

For more information on the conditions and implementation of stays in residences, please refer to the Literary Residencies Criteria.