CALL: KROKODIL FESTIVAL

Description of the call: 3 authors are invited to participate in the official programme of Krokodil Festival to be celebrated in Belgrade (Serbia) from 21 and 23 June 2024. 

Opening date: 15/03/2024

Deadline date: 30/04/2024 

CALL ORGANISATION: UDRUZENJE KROKODIL (KROKODIL), PIC 936033511

Address: KARADJORDJEVA 43, BEOGRAD 11000, Serbia

Theme for the proposal: Authors invited will be authors/illustrators of children literature and they will participate in an event with children where they have the opportunity to interact playing with them and read their works. 

Grant: Each author participating will receive a grant of 1000 € as expenses for their participation. These expenses will be paid after their participation in the festival. 

Process of application: submitting CV and letter of candidature to any partner participating in Lit-Up or by email to litupproject@gmail.com.  

Process of selection: after applications closure a committee integrated by representatives of Krokodil Association and the Festival Committee will evaluate candidates and select 3 authors to participate in the festival. 

Once made the selection, authors will receive the invitation to participate in the festival and will sign an agreement with KROKODIL. In this agreement, it will be registered all the obligations that participants will have with the organiser and with the project following what is stated in the LIT-UP Grant Agreement (101056062)

The Festival: 

Ever since its foundation in 2009, KROKODIL has organised the annual KROKODIL Literary Festival. The festival, which was primarily conceived as a regional affair dedicated to the promotion of dialogue, reconciliation and reconstruction of broken links, particularly in the overlapping regions of the Western Balkans and Southeast Europe, soon became more and more international and has grown into one of the most distinctive and popular events in the region, exploring the most important cultural, political and social topics of the day. 

 Combining different formats such as readings, sofa interviews, panel discussions, workshops, press conferences, film and other audio-visual content, KROKODIL has presented, throughout its 16 annual “editions,” hundreds of distinguished writers, artists and public figures from numerous countries. 

The Festival boasts a large, very loyal, and engaged audience.

  • 65.000+ visitors
  • 2500+ participants
  • 115+ programs 
  • 25+ in other European cities
  • 350.000+ annual reach via traditional media in the region of SEE with the
  • 500.000+ euro media value.

Website: Krokodil Festival

LIT-UP project: 

LIT-UP is a Creative Europe project aiming at defining and implementing competitive strategies to empower publishers and authors working with less used languages in front of big players in a global context. Strategies defined will try to help them, via activities and trainings, to compete with real opportunities of survival against big languages and players working in their own markets.

LIT-UP addresses directly to the objective of safeguarding, developing and promoting European cultural and linguistic diversity and heritage as it will help the publishing sector working with lesser-used languages to improve their skills, competences and capacity to sell translation rights abroad and to promote works in international markets.

LIT-UP has developed a range of activities including trainings and workshops around Europe to boost liaisons between authors, publishers, public administrations at local, national and European level.

To achieve this networking strength, LIT-UP base this methodology in these three steps:

  • Promote publishers and authors skills and competences
  • Increase their expertise and relationships
  • Develop robust strategies to leverage the market impact

With a duration of 42 months between 1st June 2022 and 30th November 2025 and the participation of 8 partners from 5 EU countries, LIT-UP has received funding from the Creative Europe Culture Cooperation Projects (CREA-CULT-2021-COOP)  

More information in: https://litup-project.eu/