We want to let you know there is a new residency in town!

Apply by June 1st!
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T-YARD Writers Residency is an initiative by designer and tailor T-Michael in collaboration with the contemporary art gallery Entrée, and Tekstallianse - a network for the literary field in Western Norway.

We seek to foster exchange between international writers and the local literary field, and to mediate cultural events in Bergen to a larger international audience through creative and critical writing.

T-YARD Writers Residency looks forward to welcoming Kalaf Epalanga as our first writer in residence during August 2022. Kalaf Epalanga is a writer and musician born in Benguela, Angola, in 1978, currently based in Berlin. Some people know him from the Europe Music Award-winning band, Buraka Som Sistema (on hiatus since 2016), and through the columns he wrote for the Portuguese newspaper O Público, GQ Magazine (Portugal), the independent Angolan online magazine REDE Angola and the Brazilian literary magazine Quatro Cinco Um. He has released Love Stories for Coloured Children (2011), The Angolan who bought Lisbon (for halfprice) (2014), and Whites Can Dance Too (2017), his debut novel will be translated to English by Daniel Hahn and published by Faber in spring 2023.

T-YARD Writers Residency is kindly supported by Bergen Municipality.