Residency Application

Deadline for submitting applications is September 30th, 2025.

Eligible applicants are writers, translators and book professionals from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.

For the year 2025, residencies are available in 9 cities in Southeast Europe: Belgrade, Bucharest, Novo Mesto, Prishtina, Sarajevo, Skopje, Sofia, Split and Tirana for the duration of 2 – 6 weeks. Fellowships cover travel costs, accommodation in a fully furnished writers’ apartment as well as subsistence of 250 Euro per week. You can apply for translation residencies, writing residencies, interdisciplinary cooperation residencies, practical exchange residencies, research trips and virtual residencies; each with their own specifics.

Read more about the residencies and modalities in the Guidelines.

Guidelines

Applicant

Email Address: *

First Name: *

Last Name: *

Country: *

Applying as: *

Writer

Translator

Literary Professional

Residency

Residency Type: *

Writing Residency

Translating Residency

Research Trip

Interdisciplinary

Virtual Residency

Practical Exchange Residency

Book and literature relevant professionals receive a visiting program organized by the partner or a practical placement in an organization or environment relevant to them.

Residency for writers who are working on a project which will be published later.

Residency for translator who have a project under contract to work on a translation.

Residency for working on a literary project in Southeast Europe.

Writers or translators collaborate with an artist from another discipline and work on an interdisciplinary artistic project in the city of residency. This should be a cross-border cooperation. The collaboration of an author with a translator is possible. The literary dimension of the project should be clearly expressed, and the two disciplines should meet on equal footing. The project should be aimed at a specific audience.

“At home” residency which is done alone or in partnership (writer/translator, writer/another artist), which focuses on a digital project to be used and displayed later by TRADUKI.

Duration: * Select all that apply.

1 week

2 weeks

3 weeks

4 weeks

6 weeks

Are you applying for a project done by: *

Yourself

In Partnership

Project partner full name: *

Discipline: *

Email Address: *

Country of Residency: *

Additional Questions

Location: *Please select one or more locations, then sort them by order of preference (drag and drop the locations).

Belgrade

Bucharest

Novo Mesto

Prishtina

Sarajevo

Skopje

Sofia

Split

Tirana

Availability: *Please select the months in which you would be available to take the residency.

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Have you been to a TRADUKI residency in the previous two years?: *

Yes

No

Project Description: *Please supply a short description of your project. A more detailed description can be attached at the end of the application process.

1500 characters remaining

Expected Outcome: *Please explain the expected outcome of the residency.

1200 characters remaining

Attachments

CV of the applicant *
CV of the collaborator *
Detailed description of the project *
Bibliography or portfolio *
If applicable, bibliography or portfolio
If applicable, additional material

You can only upload Word, PDF and image files, each being 10MB or less.

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