Open call: Book Arsenal Festival invites international publishers to Kyiv with its second fellowship

The International Book Arsenal Festival announces the call for applications for the international audience of book professionals. Up to eight professionals will be selected to participate in the Book Arsenal Fellowship Program. The submission deadline is March 9 inclusive.

Foreign publishers, rights managers, literary agents, and other professionals of the book industry interested in cooperation with Ukraine are invited to participate in the competitive selection. The program will include presentations-acquainting events with the Ukrainian book market, field-specific institutions and the opportunities they provide, attending the festival events and B2B meetings with Ukrainian publishers. 

As reported earlier, the 13th International Book Arsenal Festival will be held on May 29-June 1, 2025 in Kyiv. The application form and more details can be found here.

RELATED: 7 foreign publishers have already attended the International Book Arsenal Festival in 2024. Chytomo met one of them, David Kakabadze (Georgia) — read our interview here.

The Book Arsenal Fellowship Program is a professional program of the International Book Arsenal Festival that contributes to strengthening international cooperation with Ukraine in the book field by establishing direct contacts between professionals from Ukraine and abroad and acquainting with the local literary and book scenes. The program was launched in 2024 and is annual. This year, The Book Arsenal Fellowship Program takes place within the 13th International Book Arsenal Festival and is supported by the International Renaissance Foundation.

Book Arsenal is an international event organized by the Mystetskyi Arsenal. The festival has been held since 2011, and has become one of the most influential literary and artistic events in Eastern Europe. In 2019, it won The Literary Festival Award of the International Excellence Awards. The mission of the International Book Arsenal Festival is to create such interactions between people, communities, and institutions when the combination of aesthetic experience and intellectual inclusion in the context of a book strengthens the capacity of a person and society.