Call for texts: An invitation to submit your creative work
Albanian, Finnish, Kurdish, Spanish, Ukrainian... Literature in Switzerland is
written in many different languages.
In April 2023, Literaturhaus Zürich is staging a reading festival. If you live in
Switzerland and write in a language other than one of the four national
languages, or if you write in several different languages (of which only one is
a national language), we cordially invite you to send us your creative work.
Eligibility requirements:
• Place of residence in Switzerland
• At least one previous publication (book publication, text in a literary journal
or anthology, either print or online)
• All literary genres and topics are welcome
• Text length max. 10’000 characters including spaces; for poetry: five poems
• Send your work and a short biography as a Word document to
info@literaturhaus.ch, subject line: Lesefest (if a full or partial translation in
German, French, Italian or English is available, please also submit a copy)
• Application deadline: 30 November 2022
• Winners will be informed by 31 January 2023
• For further information, please contact info@literaturhaus.ch /
044 254 50 07
A jury (made up of representatives from our partner institutions, authors and
literary agents as well as – depending on the language – external experts) is
responsible for selecting the ten best texts. If your work is chosen, you will be an
invited guest on 22 April 2023 at Literaturhaus Zürich (you will receive payment
for participating in the event).
A project of Literaturhaus Zürich, in cooperation with Übersetzerhaus Looren,
Weltenliteratur/Alit - Verein Literaturstiftung, Weiter Schreiben Schweiz, A*dS
Autorinnen und Autoren der Schweiz, the Omanut Forum for Jewish art
and culture, Junges Literaturlabor JULL, with generous support from the
foundation Georg und Bertha Schwyzer-Winiker Stiftung.