New opportunity for a Fellowship programme in Skopje
We are glad to invite all foreign publishers and agents to the 1st Publishing Europe Fellowship (PEF), held within the BookStar Festival Skopje (2 – 4 October 2023), the most important international event dedicated to fiction literature in North Macedonia. Main objective of this fellowship is to invite book professionals from around the world to North Macedonia to learn about our publishing landscape and to open the doors to new literary voices from Europe.
PEF aims to encourage relationships between the publishing community and their Macedonian counterparts and facilitate international cooperation in the field of translation and mobility. This event is envisioned as a matching point for discovery of the publishing industry and for development of professional dialogue on many levels and sharing know-how between the participants. The fellowship programme strengthens transnational exchanges and focuses on rooting a vast network of contacts.
For 2023 we are able to host five fellows – publishers, scouts, editors, managers of prominent literature festivals, agents, sub-agents, translators and other professionals from the book sector interested in European literature, with special emphasis on works written in “lesser-used languages”.
The Programme will cover all accommodation and travel costs: three nights in hotel, airline ticket (economy class), transport from and to the Skopje airport (or bus station), as well as costs related to the programme implementation – meetings with representatives of the publishing houses, agents, writers and translators as well as a publishers’ convention.
In 2023 PEF runs in the scope of the 9th edition of the Festival of European literature Bookstar in Skopje, organized by the publishing house Antolog Books. The fellowship seeks to present the local book market as a dynamic, internationally oriented industry, to consolidate relations, to exchange information and to promote books originally written in Macedonian or in any other language from Europe’s rich scenery.
Besides the professional aspect, you will also have the opportunity to familiarize with our culture, food, people and Macedonia’s good vibes :).
Please share your interest at e-mail valentina.antolog@gmail.com until August 15th 2023.
We are going to inform you on the final decision until September 1st 2023.
Publishing Europe Fellowship is under Made in Europe: The power of diversity project (co-funded by the European Union).
