Call: Writer-in-Residence for Berlin Stories

Once again, we're looking for one or two student writer(s)-in-residence who'll write about Berlin. It doesn't matter if your format of choice is poetry or short stories, essay or comic - as long as you writer literary texts focused on life in the capital. if the jury picks you, you send us between two and four texts per month and receive a monthly study & work stipend. The texts will be published on our Berlin Stories blog and in the literary anthology that we release every three years. You will read at the baton passing ceremony on January 26th and at our Lies Los events, additionally we'll support you while you work on a final project.

How can you apply?

Hand in your letter of motivation (1 page) and your literary sampel (3 pages) via the online form. Put an abbreviation on both your literary sample and your letter of motivation that you also put into the name of the files you upload. Use the first two letters of your first and last names and up to four numbers for the abbreviation. Please make sure that your actual name does not appear on your literary sample. Applications where the name appears in the text sample file will not be passed on to the jury members. Feel free to also talk about your biographical-social background and your previous writing experiences in your letter of motivation. 

For the first time ever, our jury members will receive only the literary samples at first and only receive the letters of motivation when they have selected a personal long list. This way, we want to ensure that the focus is on the literary quality of the work, work against unconscious bias the jury members have and support emerging and marginalised voices within the literary world.

We will contact the chosen writer(s)-in-residence and the short list shortly before Christmas. 

More information on the Project

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