Villa Marguerite Yourcenar
Writer-in-residence place

Call for writers
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Documents for the file of application:
1. Registration form
2. Commitment form, dated and signed
3. Typed biobibliographical description in French (2 pages max.)
4. Typed letter of motivation in French (1 page max.)
5. Four copies of your last published work
6. Four copies of another one of your books, representative of your
artistic approach
(For authors who do not speak French, works published in French or
significant extracts translated into French)
7. Typed summary or synopsis of the manuscript for which you are
requesting the writer-in-residence place (1 page max.)
8. Press reviews concerning your publications (choice of 5 articles max.)

WORKS SUBMITTED TO THE JURY CANNOT BE RETURNED

File to be sent to the address below before 31th January 2012.

Any incomplete file will not be transmitted to the jury, which will
deliberate in end-May 2012. Candidates will be informed by letter of the
jury’s decisions in June 2012. The chosen candidates will be able to stay
from March to November 2013.

VILLA MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

The Villa Marguerite Yourcenar, Centre Départemental de Résidence
d’Ecrivains Européens (Departmental Centre of Residence for European
Writers), offers authors to stay for one or two months to enable them to
write in a calm, peaceful and stimulating location, and to meet with
audiences in the Nord during literary evenings, book fairs, school visits,
bookshops, etc.

It is open to all types of literature (novels, short stories, poetry,
theatre, essays, BD, children’s stories, etc). The Villa Marguerite
Yourcenar is accessible to European authors who have already had one or
more works published by a professional editor (editions published at the
author’s expense are not taken into account) and wish to stay at the Villa
Marguerite Yourcenar to finish a manuscript.

Works for university research (theses, didactic and scientific works, etc)
are not included.

Location

The Villa Marguerite Yourcenar is located at Mont-Noir in the heart of the
French Flanders, on the site of the former family property of the writer
Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987). It belongs to the Conseil Général du
Nord (France), as does the park that surrounds it. The departmental park
and the Villa Marguerite Yourcenar (36 hectares) are located in the
commune of Saint-Jans-Cappel on the Belgian border, between the towns of
Bailleul (France, 6km away and with the nearest train station) and Ypres
(Belgium, 15km). It is about forty kilometres from Lille via the A25
motorway.

Capacity and conditions of stay

Three writers can be housed simultaneously at the Villa Marguerite
Yourcenar. Each one is allocated an office-bedroom with personal bathroom
on the first floor.

A shared library, kitchen, computer room (with photocopier, printer and
Internet access), television room and dining room are available to
residents.

The Villa Marguerite Yourcenar provides resident writers with
accommodation, breakfast and evening meals, except at weekends and Bank
Holidays (telephone communications and lunch are at residents’ own
expense).

Three bicycles and one car are at the residents’ disposal.

The Conseil Général du Nord will pay for one return trip home for each
resident writer. The secretaress buys the tickets for the residents, they
must not buy their tickets by themselves.

Resident writers will receive a grant of €60 for each day they are
effectively present, amounting to 1,800 euros for a 30-day stay. The sum
is transferred on the resident’s bank account about 60 days after the
beginning of the stay.

In everyone’s interest, the Villa Marguerite Yourcenar is NON-SMOKING.

Animals are not allowed at the Villa Marguerite Yourcenar.

The Villa Marguerite Yourcenar promises to:

- submit all applications received within the set time to a jury of
European literary experts

- inform successful candidates several months in advance that their
application has been retained and of the dates they can stay at the Villa
Marguerite Yourcenar

- organise a monthly meeting with the public of the Nord/Pas-de-Calais region

- encourage encounters with local culture, editors and translators, at the
writer’s request

Writers-in-residence promise to keep to the following rules and conditions:

1. Writers-in-residence must spend the stay at the Villa Marguerite
Yourcenar continuing or finishing their manuscript. They can give two
periods of preference for their stay – the team at the Villa Marguerite
Yourcenar will take this into account while organising the dates of stay
according to studio availability – noting that the Villa Marguerite
Yourcenar is closed in December, January, February and August

2. In the publication and in any further editions and translations of the
work they have continued during their stay, they must promise to state a
sentence similar to the following: “The author has benefited from a
writer-in-residence place at the Villa Marguerite Yourcenar in order to
write this book and received a writing grant from the Conseil Général du
Nord”

3. Writers-in-residence must accept to take part in one or more meetings
with the public during literary events at the Villa Marguerite or outside
(school visits, book fairs, signing sessions in book shops, etc.)

4. They must accept that a collective work will be published by the Villa
Marguerite Yourcenar, including one of their texts in relation to the
theme of the volume

5. They must accept that information concerning them (biobibliography,
extracts, etc) be put online on the website of the Conseil Général du
Nord, under the heading Villa Marguerite Yourcenar


data limita: 31/01/2012

Kontakt:
Villa Marguerite Yourcenar
2266 Route du Parc
59270 Saint-Jans-Cappel
France
tel: (00 33) 03 28 43 83 00
fax: (00 33) 03 28 43 83 05
villayourcenar@cg59.fr
http://www.cg59.fr

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