In 2017, 2020 and 2022, the literary residency programme brought ten writers to the cultural regions of North Rhine-Westphalia for four months on each occasion. The regional writers set out to explore towns, villages and the countryside. They shared their literary and artistic impressions on the stadt.land.text blog, at readings, and on Facebook and Instagram .
During the four-month residency, the authors were out and about, exploring towns, villages and the countryside, meeting local residents and realising literary and artistic project ideas. The focus was not only on urban centres, but also on the rural areas of NRW. There were ten cultural regions to choose from for a residency: Bergisches Land, Hellweg, Münsterland, Niederrhein, Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Region Aachen, Rheinschiene, Ruhrgebiet, Sauerland and Südwestfalen.
The residents each received a scholarship. An accompanying programme with joint excursions, activities and networking events awaited them. Selected works by all regional writers were published in the anthology stadt.land.text NRW. Selected texts from the third edition can also be found on the stadt.land.text blog.
In 2022, Neïtah Janzing travelled around Münsterland as a regional writer. From March to June, she explored the region, took analogue photographs and wrote lyrical postcards to people she didn't know. She also produced the paper for the postcards herself. You can find more information about her project here:
In 2020, the Berlin author Charlotte Krafft was on tour as a regional writer in Münsterland. Under the title "Future Fresco", the writer with a penchant for science fiction described and "painted" the rural area with visions of future places of remembrance. The resulting texts are teeming with umbrellas, Spoekenkiekerinnen and moorland monsters. Curious? Everything about the stadt.land.text NRW 2020 issue, an interview with Charlotte Krafft and the anthology with texts by all ten regional writers from NRW can be found here:
