Probably coming to a city near you in the following months, The Poets‘ Sounds emerges from the boundary between literary language and New Music – an aesthetic realm which has hardly been explored until now. In cooperation with the Cologne-based speech art trio sprechbohrer,the Literature House Lettrétage was able to commission six international authors in order to explore this intersection. (c) Sina Lynn Sachse The event series kicks off on June 11th in Berlin and will travel all the way to Limasol! Read more about the festival, participants and the dates on the website or the progra ..read more

In B.A.U. you enter uncharted artistic territory in the company of five artists from Germany and Russia. Using cardboard VR goggles your smartphone can be transformed into a gate to virtual reality, where you can move through five spaces, filled with animated deities, giant Lenin heads and spherical sounds, as well as interact with artistic objects created especially for this app. B.A.U. isn’t a virtual exhibition – as a user you dive into artistic worlds. B.A.U. also doesn’t try to simply translate literary and cultural mediation from analogue to digital. It specifically uses the possibilitie ..read more

4th international Poetry Slam Cyprus 2021, οrganised online, on Sunday 24 January 2021 by Ideogramma, one of the original partners of CROWD Some awesome numbers!!! 27,503             people reached (unique) 3, 028              views (of the live event) Argyris Loizou, was declared the 2021 Cyprus National Slam Championship in a competition with 14 contestants, and Filip Koryta, from the Czech Republic was declared the Winner of the 4th Poetry Slam Cyprus 2021 i ..read more

Versal Editions, a small press dedicated to community-centered publishing and curation, is announcing its inaugural Open Book Prize! In their own words, the prize seeks to celebrate writers and artists in and beyond their far & wide community. The winning manuscript will be the first title of the new Amsterdam-based publisher and curator Versal Editions. The manuscripts should be between 25 to 80 pages long and in English, the deadline for submission closes on the 15th December 2019. For more details, read their open call – https://www.versaljournal.org/call-for-work. Der Beitra ..read more

Dear CROWDies, we’re at it again! Planning for the future and trying to find new ways of co-operation and dissemination. If you happen to be in Graz at the beginning of November, we will be presenting out thoughts and possibilities on living and working together across borders! The international workshop „CROWD_topia Gathering“ brings together authors and literature organisers from the independent literature community CROWD, which was founded by several international partner organisations in 2013. During this two-day workshop, they will exchange artistic ideas and discuss the centra ..read more

Villa Sarkia is a residence located in the centre of Sysmä for writers and translators regardless to language or genre. Nuoren Voiman Liitto operates the residency application process whereas the county of Sysmä looks over the maintenance of Villa Sarkia. The residence is primarily intended for under 40 year old. You can apply for the Villa Sarkia residence place for 1-3 months. The living is free for the selected residents. The residents are expected to participate in one event organized in Finland during their stay. The residents’ personal expenses, such as travel costs, are not covered ..read more