Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA) is a European cooperation project for literary talent development, transnational creation, promotion and circulation of literary works and literary artists in small language markets across Europe.

The project brings together a diverse network of 12 literary organisations from 11 countries to collaborate at an international level on providing a total of 165 literary talents with skills, tools and network for a sustainable professional practice, serving the European audience with a rich diversity of quality prose. The project has value for capacity building and training activities, and related skills development activities such as mentoring, peer learning and networking. CELA fosters talents and enhances the entrepreneurial capacities of literary artists, and of the concerned sectors to adapt to new business models and market developments, and to embrace the digital and green transitions.

CELA aims to:
– Continue and grow the European network of professionals and organisations: providing emerging literary artists with access to the publishing industry and a relevant network in the European book and publishing sector.
– Increase the professional capability of tomorrow’s internationally acknowledged writers and translators to operate work in a self-sustainable way on an international level, for the European public.
– Build the capacity to cooperate at the international level within the diverse and strong CELA partnership.
– Provide for transnational mobility and connection within the European literary market: connect, share and exchange expertise and knowledge throughout Europe and help the new generation of European literary artists to meet and work together.
– Raise the international circulation of literary works from emerging literary artists from smaller language regions to the European public, investing in the professionalisation of translators, and in the ability for literary work to reach new audiences. [Source: FTOP.]

Goga Publishing House

(Partner) Novo mesto

All projects of Slovenian producer

Foreign producers in the supported project

Stichting de Wintertuin (leader)

Netherlands (EU)
MZK (partner)

Czech Republic (EU)
Vlaams-Nederlands Huis Deburen (partner)

Belgium (EU)
Escuela de Escritores (partner)

Spain (EU)
President (partner)

Republic of Serbia
Passa Porta NL (partner)

Belgium (EU)
Scuola Holden (partner)

Italy (EU)
Krakow Festival Office (partner)

Poland (EU)
Muzeul National al Literaturii Romane Iasi (partner)

Romania (EU)
Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex (partner)
Fondacia Sledvashta Stranica (partner)

Bulgaria (EU)

Funded projects

MUSICVILLE – Green European Opera

Operation Nova

Kino x Games

FASIH - Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage

Cultural BEES

Is this us?

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Moving Balkans

Youth Art for the Earth (YAFE)

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

December: Uncomfortable Beings, Azra, Best Imaginary Friends Forever

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts (ReCITYing)

Art Nouveau: a new EUtopia

Creative Industries Development Centre (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science (Studiotopia 2)

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Book (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Connected with Books (CWB)

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studi Virc: Mini Slate 2023

The 10th and 11th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

The 20th and 21st Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival

20. and 21. ANIMATEKA International animated film festival

Film in Hospital 2.0

EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal 2024-2026

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building (LAP CB)

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22 (TFMini22)

Vertigo Slate 2022: Chestnuts, Memory of Autumn Mists, OHO, Splashing around

Staragara slate 22

Our Little Library: Literary exchanges (OLL LE)

Testing Ground (TestG)

Better Live

Variola - Dark Spring TV series

SEMA

Paradiso

Leave the door open

The Big Green

The Long Way Down

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo (FF)

Spring Cleaning

Animation Festival Network

CulturalDeTour - Sustainable Cultural Tourism by Design Driven Innovation

Building the future of democracy through art, science and technology (EUDigitalDeal)

CEE Animation Forum 2021

The Museum of the Commons. Towards a Healthier Arts Ecosystem (MoC)

ACT: Art, Climate, Transition

Baths, gothic churches and miners’ houses

Fake Lies

THE FILM CORNER RELOADED - A CULTURAL APPROACH

CINEMINI EUROPE

FC Freedom

Body

Movies in Motion

Voix de la Poesie Europeenne

Trust me, I'm an artist

The Faces Behind the Nose - Promoting Hospital Clowning as a Recognized Genre of Performing Arts

SYMBOLS - Culture of Death& Cultural Life: New audiences and creations around European Cemeteries!