The Directorate of the program "Ulyanovsk - UNESCO City of Literature" announced the acceptance of applications for participation in the international project "The City as a Writer's Workplace". Writers, poets, playwrights and other authors, as well as translators and artists from UNESCO Cities of Literature are invited to describe a place in the city where they like to work on texts.

- Our idea is to collect photographs and short texts from the authors, telling about the places in the city where they like to work on their texts, explained the directorate of the program "Ulyanovsk - UNESCO City of Literature". - It is very interesting to explore how the working conditions of authors are changing today: some work at home at a desk or while taking a bath, others sketch poems directly on their smartphones, others love to write at the airport, on the train or while riding a bike around the city.

As a result of the project, an international online exhibition will be prepared with photographs of the workplaces of authors from UNESCO Cities of Literature. The online exhibition will be posted on the Ulyanovsk – UNESCO City of Literature website. The project will help to better understand the writer's relationship with the city, allow writers to learn more about each other's work, and introduce readers to local authors.

How to take part in the project?

Authors, translators and literary artists from UNESCO cities of literature, as well as authors associated with these cities (for example, you worked on some kind of creative project with a writer from this city, studied, grew up or worked in one from these cities, or this city inspired you to write the text): Ulyanovsk, Angouleme, Baghdad, Barcelona, ​​Beirut, Bucheon, Dublin, Dunedin, Durban, Edinburgh, Exeter, Granada, Heidelberg, Iowa, Krakow, Kuhmo, Lahore, Leeuwarden, Lillehammer, Ljubljana, Lviv, Odessa, Manchester, Melbourne, Milan, Montevideo, Nanjing, Norwich, Nottingham, Obidos, Prague, Quebec, Reykjavik, Seattle, Slemani, Tartu, Utrecht, Wonju, Wroclaw.

Participants are invited to send in a photo(s) and a short text about their favorite place(s) in the city or at home they use to work. These can be photographs of a variety of places: a desktop or a bathroom at home; bench in the park; a table in a cafe; waiting room at the airport; a room in the writer's residence; car, train, bicycle, scooter; any other place in the city.

(You don't need to take a portrait of yourself in front of this place, just send a photo of the place, as the exhibition is dedicated to writers' workplaces)

Requirements for photos and texts

- Photo quality - at least 1280×1024 (sign the place where the photo was taken: for example, "My desktop at home, Ulyanovsk" or "The bench on which I like to write stories in the park, Barcelona").

- 1 paragraph of text describing your favorite workplace in the city (text in Russian or English, under which you need to sign the name and surname of the author, genres in which the author works, city of residence, writer's website (if any)).

Photos and texts are accepted at: infopoint.ulskcityofliterature@gmail.com (you can also ask questions at this address).

Deadline: April 26

The online exhibition can be viewed free of charge by everyone. Each author who participated in the online exhibition will receive a link to the exhibition page by e-mail. The opening of the exhibition will be covered in the media and social networks.