Deadline: February 1, 2025
Applications are open for the Mophradat Writing Sabbaticals 2025. Mophradat is supporting emerging creative writers from the Arab world working in contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Published writers currently working on a new text for publication and who need time to focus on its completion can apply to this program. Mophradat creates opportunities for artists from the Arab world through an inventive approach to funding, commissioning, collaborating, and gathering.
Benefits
- Each participant will receive a stipend to allow them to take time out from their daily preoccupations and complete their project.
Eligibility
- Applicants must be from or living in the Arab world. Priority is given to those writing in Arabic and those based in the Arab world.
- Applicants must be authors of creative writing including fiction, poetry, criticism, essay, and other literary forms. These sabbaticals are not for academic writing, film, or journalism.
- Applicants must be published writers with at least two prior instances of publication (books, articles, essays etc.).
- Applicants must provide a letter of interest from a publisher for the new work they are about to complete during this sabbatical. Innovative proposals in method and form will be given priority.
- Applicants must commit to taking a leave from their day jobs for the entire sabbatical period (For those who are selected: if employed, a letter from their place of employment must be provided confirming the agreed time out).
Application
In order to prepare your application, you may already check out the questions here.
For more information, visit Mophradat.
