The Lit-Quest Europe project continues for the second year, and a new call for literary professionals and the Residence Program of 2025 is open.
The Literary Professionals Residence Program is a part of the Lit-Quest Europe project, which is a cooperative initiative involving Publishing House Goga (Slo), Sandorf (Cro), and Helsinki Literary Agency (Fi). The Lit-Quest Europe project receives support from the EU Creative Europe program.
The Literary Professionals Residence Program for 2025 is open to welcome literary agents, editors and other literary professionals involved in promotion of authors and foreign rights from all eligible countries within the EACEA program:
EU Countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
Non-EU Countries: Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom.
The program particularly emphasizes literary professionals who possess extensive experience in their field, are accustomed to delivering lectures, and are proficient in the English language. We aim to enable the participation of literary professionals of all ages and genders, with a common criterion: their knowledge will have a meaningful impact on the countries of their residence.
For the year 2025, the call for applications is open for 9 literary professionals. Each residency will have a duration of 5 days, scheduled between June 1st and November 30th, 2025.
Number of Residencies:
– Goga Publishing (Slovenia – Novo mesto): 3 residencies
– Sandorf (Croatia – Zagreb): 3 residencies
– Helsinki Literary Agency (Finland – Helsinki): 3 residencies
The fellowship for literary professionals will include:
-A 5-night stay in an apartment
– Travel costs (up to 500 EUR)
-Accommodation costs (up to 150 EUR per night)
-Subsistence costs (50 EUR per person)
-Selected literary professionals will be required to complete a questionnaire
provided by literary agents who are also part of this project.
-Lectures will be recorded and disseminated on the project page.
-All literary professionals will have the opportunity to meet local literary
professionals of the host country and other individuals from the
publishing field.
All application materials should be submitted in English. The
application deadline is February 15th, 2025. The selection will be
conducted by the Board of the Lit-Quest Europe Project.
For additional questions regarding the call, please contact us via email: lit-quest@goga.si.
Applicants will be notified of the jury’s decision via email by Friday, March
7th, 2025.
You can find the application on following link: https://tinyurl.com/2mpd793z