Book Arsenal festival is pleased to invite you to the programme Ukrainian Literature: Rights On for the international literary agents and publishers. 37 foreign participants from 24 countries participated in the meetings. The International Book Arsenal Festival has decided to surpass the results of last year’s Ukrainian Literature: Rights On! Program, and announces the start of its second season. This year, Ukrainian Literature: Rights On! will be a joint project of the Book Arsenal and the EU programme House of Europe. The partners of the project are Creative Europe and the Department of Public Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

WHAT BENEFITS WILL FOREIGN PUBLISHERS AND LITERARY AGENTS HAVE FROM PARTICIPATING IN

THE PROGRAM?

· individual B2B meetings with Ukrainian publishers that will take place on July 5-7 (we will help to organize the meetings according

to your profile and requests);

· free promotion of your publishing portfolio among Ukrainian publishers;

· English video lectures with reviews of Ukrainian literature and book publishing, grant opportunities for translators that will continue the series recorded in 2020;

· meetings with representatives from the Ukrainian institutions (Ukrainian Book Institute, House of Europe) providing grants to support book translations from Ukrainian into other languages;

HOW TO APPLY?

Please, fill in the online form https://book.artarsenal.in.ua/en/participate/professional-programs/professional-program-ukrainian-literature-rights-on/ until 14 June 2021 at 24:00 Kyiv time.

We kindly ask you to provide us with the information about publishers, Ukrainian writers, or topics you are interested in negotiating.

We will send catalogues of rights relevant to your request and help to arrange the meetings.

Will you have any questions, please feel free to contact us: [email protected]