Due Date: July 7, 2019
Are you an author in Africa trying to find a possibility to sharpen you composing abilities? The Goethe-Institut/Bureau de intermediary Ouagadougou is establishing an author’s residency for young African authors (less than 40 years) in 2019/20 in Burkina Faso.
This residency program intends to offer a platform free of charge expression
- to authors who predict the vision of (another) future in their works,
- to authors who have constraints of expression in their native land,
- to activist authors who reveal themselves in relation to social and/ or political improvements and difficulties in their nations.
Expense
- Expense of transport (from house nation to Burkina Faso) and visa will be covered
- Lodging throughout the 4 weeks residency will be supplied
- Grant of 1,500 Euro for the residency duration (incl. daily and personal transportation)– paid in location in 2 instalments.
Eligibility
- Open to authors of all literary categories: unique, poetry, essay, storytelling, narrative, theatre, comic, and so on. The production of a text is obligatory for the authors in home. The texts produced will be released at the end of 2020, either in physical or digital variation;-LRB- ***************).
- Be under 40 years of ages;-LRB- ***************).
- Have at least one released text, either with a publisher or a paper, on a blog site or site or as a self-publication;-LRB- ***************).
- Be of African citizenship by origin or by naturalization;-LRB- ***************).
- Have a composing task to establish throughout the residency;-LRB- ***************).
- Be offered from November 2019.
Application
Application and file to offer:
- Letter of inspiration defining your author’s profession, your individual circumstance,
- Your expectations and the factors for your application for the residency
- Description of your task to establish throughout the residency
- Résumé
- Complete bio (max. 500 words)
- PDF or links of texts currently released
The applications will be sent out to the following addresses:
Carolin Christgau, Director Goethe-Institut:
[email protected]
Francois d’Assise Ouédraogo, Assistant Goethe-Institut:
[email protected]
For more details, go to Goethe-Institut/Bureau de intermediary Ouagadougou Author’s in Residency Program