Barcelona City of Literature International Vil·la Joana Writing Residencies 2025
Barcelona Institute of Culture (ICUB) is calling for applications from international writers and translators for the Barcelona City of Literature International Vil·la Joana Writing Residencies, for three-week periods between April and October 2025.
The Barcelona International Writing Residencies head office is at the Barcelona History Museum (MUHBA) Vil·la Joana at Ctra Església, 104, in a natural setting at the heart of Collserola Nature Park, 30 minutes from the city centre by public transport. Next to it is the masia, an old farmhouse that has been turned into a literary house-museum dedicated to Jacint Verdaquer and his time, as it was the poet’s last home.
In 2025, the Residencies will consist of the following eight three-week periods:
- 15 April - 5 May
- 6 - 26 May
- 27 May - 16 June
- 17 June - 7 July
- 8 - 28 July
- 29 July - 25 August
- 9 - 29 September
- 30 September - 20 October
These residencies are open to writers from outside Catalonia of any nationality and in any language, with a fiction (poetry, narrative, drama or audiovisual script) or non-fiction (essay, chronicle) writing project, as well as literary translators with a translation project in any of the aforementioned genres. Applicants must have at least one work published under their name or a work or script that has been premièred. In all cases, the project must be related to the city of Barcelona in some way.
The Barcelona Vil·la Joana Writing Residency programme offers those selected accommodation and an individual workspace. In addition, the organisers will agree an agenda of activities and meetings to put the residents in touch with Barcelona’s literary network, as well as members of the general public interested in literature.
Barcelona Vil·la Joana Writing Residency 2025 application guidelines
Deadline: 10 January 2025