Nederlands Letterenfonds Fellowship Programme 2026 (€3,500 stipend) – YOA

Deadline: August 25, 2026

Applications are open for the Nederlands Letterenfonds Fellowship Programme 2026. The Letterenfonds Fellowship is a continuation of the Writer-in-Residence programme and part of the longstanding collaboration between NIAS and the Dutch Foundation for Literature (Nederlands Letterenfonds). The programme fosters transdisciplinary change between writers, and students from the humanities, social sciences and different disciplines. The fellowship permits writers to commit themselves full-time to a writing mission of their alternative inside a various neighborhood of worldwide students.

For this version, NIAS and the Dutch Foundation for Literature particularly invite purposes from writers primarily based within the Caribbean Parts of the Kingdom. The fellowship goals to strengthen the presence of literary voices from the Caribbean inside the NIAS neighborhood and to encourage change between literature, scholarship and society throughout the Kingdom.

Benefits

• The fellow receives a private stipend of €3,500 per thirty days.
• The fellow is supplied journey reimbursement of a world return ticket.
• The fellow is supplied with an workplace at NIAS, entry to analysis amenities, and subsidised lodging in Amsterdam.
• The fellow advantages from and participates in weekly tutorial seminars and interdisciplinary dialogue.
• A residency on the Institute constitutes a full-time dedication and fellows are anticipated to be current on the Institute 4 workdays every week from the opening of their semester till the tip of their semester.

Eligibility

• The fellowship is open to literary fiction and non-fiction writers primarily based within the Caribbean Parts of the Kingdom (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten) who write in Papiamentu, Papiamento, English from the Islands or Dutch. Applicants must be established writers with a literary monitor file and a physique of labor that demonstrates sustained literary high quality {and professional} apply.
• The fellowship is meant for writers at a mid-profession or senior stage who’re comfy working inside an instructional and worldwide atmosphere and who’re keen to interact in mental change with students from completely different disciplines.
• Applicants should suggest a literary mission that may clearly profit from a residency at NIAS. The mission ought to already be past its preliminary conception part and be sufficiently developed to make productive use of the fellowship interval.
• Eligible candidates are anticipated to take part actively within the NIAS neighborhood via seminars, workshops and casual exchanges with different fellows. As English is the working language at NIAS, candidates will need to have a great command of English.

Application

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For extra info, go to Nederlands Letterenfonds Fellowship.