Deadline: August 25, 2026
Applications are open for the Nederlands Letterenfonds Fellowship Programme 2026. The Letterenfonds Fellowship is a continuation of the Writer-in-Residence programme and part of the longstanding collaboration between NIAS and the Dutch Foundation for Literature (Nederlands Letterenfonds). The programme fosters transdisciplinary exchange between writers, and scholars from the humanities, social sciences and other disciplines. The fellowship allows writers to devote themselves full-time to a writing project of their choice within a diverse community of international scholars.
For this edition, NIAS and the Dutch Foundation for Literature specifically invite applications from writers based in the Caribbean Parts of the Kingdom. The fellowship aims to strengthen the presence of literary voices from the Caribbean within the NIAS community and to encourage exchange between literature, scholarship and society across the Kingdom.
Benefits
- The fellow receives a personal stipend of €3,500 per month.
- The fellow is provided travel reimbursement of an international return ticket.
- The fellow is provided with an office at NIAS, access to research facilities, and subsidised accommodation in Amsterdam.
- The fellow benefits from and participates in weekly academic seminars and interdisciplinary dialogue.
- A residency at the Institute constitutes a full-time commitment and fellows are expected to be present at the Institute four workdays a week from the opening of their semester until the end of their semester.
Eligibility
- The fellowship is open to literary fiction and non-fiction writers based in the Caribbean Parts of the Kingdom (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten) who write in Papiamentu, Papiamento, English from the Islands or Dutch. Applicants should be established writers with a literary track record and a body of work that demonstrates sustained literary quality and professional practice.
- The fellowship is intended for writers at a mid-career or senior stage who are comfortable working within an academic and international environment and who are eager to engage in intellectual exchange with scholars from different disciplines.
- Applicants must propose a literary project that will clearly benefit from a residency at NIAS. The project should already be beyond its initial conception phase and be sufficiently developed to make productive use of the fellowship period.
- Eligible candidates are expected to participate actively in the NIAS community through seminars, workshops and informal exchanges with other fellows. As English is the working language at NIAS, applicants must have a good command of English.
Application
For more information, visit Nederlands Letterenfonds Fellowship.
