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A meeting of all UNESCO Creative Cities of Literature is slated to take place from the 20th to the 25th of May, and during this event, the most important plans and challenges for the next year will be discussed. As many as 46 delegates from 28 cities will participate in workshops and discussions to establish wider international cooperation. This meeting is also an opportunity for each of the cities to present their best practices – in the case of Krakow, it is about Planet Lem and the bookstore support programme. Elżbieta Foltyniak, who represents Krakow – UNESCO City of Literature, will also host a session on international residency programs.
The meeting will be held in two British cities: Norwich and Nottingham, who are joining forces for a couple days to become the literary heart of the world, dubbed “Nottwich.” In previous years such meetings were also held in Barcelona and Iowa City.
UNESCO Cities of Literature work together to create a worldwide partnership and literary links between cities and countries. Each city also carries out their own local programmes, engaging their residents in the dynamic literary life.
More about the Cities of Literature: krakowcityofliterature.com/networks/unesco-cities-of-literature/
This year Kraków will host four exceptional writers. Today we have welcomed Georgina Wilding from Nottingham, Creative Director of Nottingham Poetry Festival, the Founding Editor of Mud Press and Nottingham’s first young poet laureate. She has performed her poetry both nationally and internationally, and writes to commission for organisations such as BBC Radio Nottingham and the Royal Shakespeare Society. She has been published in journals such as “The Rialto”, and teaches poetry and performance across the midlands. Wilding will spend in Kraków two months during which you will have many opportunities to meet her at the events organized by Kraków UNESCO City of Literature. For some it might be a second meeting with her poetry – last year she was a guest of the OFF stream of the Miłosz Festival.
Find more about Georgina Wilding: https://www.georginawildingpoet.co.uk/
The Krakow UNESCO City of Literature Residency Program is dedicated to writers from the Cities of Literature of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. It aims to provide writers with a platform to showcase their work and talent to a Central European audience, support greater diversity of voices and literatures on the Polish and Central European book market and offer local writers the chance to create links with international writers as well.