Do you publish books about Wrocław? Don’t miss another opportunity for the support
An additional call for applications is now open for the 2026 edition of the Wrocław Publishing Programme. Publishers of non-commercial books or magazines – related to Wrocław and Lower Silesia, can now apply for funding. You can apply until April 24th!
This is another opportunity to secure funding during this edition of the Wrocław Publishing
Programme – as a part of the main recruitment organized at the end of 2025, 19 projects were submitted, 16 passed the formal review, and were forwarded to the experts for evaluation. 14 projects advanced to the third stage of evaluation, the Selection Committee decided to grant 12 of them, including six books and four magazines. The total financial support granted under the main call for proposals amounted to nearly 260,000 zlotys.
Among the funded books was „Wratislavia cum figuris III” by Gabriel Leonard Kamiński, another poetic attempt to capture Wrocław through its streets, squares, and neighborhoods, as well as „Śląskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Fotografii we Wrocławiu. Między nauką a sztuką” by Zenon Harasym – a publication about the history of one of the region’s most significant former photographic communities. Book guides the reader through archival images of the city. Alongside, these are two poetry collections: “Obietnica” by Emilia Konwerska and “Transakcja” by Paweł Majcherczyk, focused on memory, relationships and the tensions of modern life. There is also „Polski biegun ciepła” by Ada T. Kosterkiewicz – a novel about growing up, family rifts, and violence, set in the countryside near Wrocław in the 1990s – and „Malina i Maurycy na tropie. Tajemnica podziemi dworca głównego” by Ewa Budniewska-Bratek, an adventure story for younger readers about discovering Wrocław through urban legends and the history of the Main Station.
Among the magazines receiving funding were „ZAKŁAD.magazyn” focused on new literary voices and experimentation, „Nietak!t” – a magazine dedicated to off-theater and phenomena on the edges of the mainstream, „Rita Baum” which combines literature, music, theater, photography, and visual arts, and „Magazyn Literacki Cegła” which for years has been developing its own unconventional “magazine-gadget” form that promotes contemporary literature beyond the strict literary community.
An additional opportunity to apply for the program will be open until April 24th. Just as before, the call for applications is conducted entirely online: all applications and attachments can be submitted via electronic form. A single publisher may submit a maximum of 3 projects in each category (book or magazine). The program invites not only publishers of traditional print media but also those of electronic media with an ISSN number.
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Do you have any questions? Consultations regarding the application procedure for the 2026 edition of the Wrocław Publishing Program will take place at the Barbara café-club, the headquarters of the Wrocław Institute of Culture, April 15th (Wednesday), between 5:00 PM and 7:00 PM. Please notify the program coordinator, Olivia Wajsen, in advance of your intention to attend the consultation meeting by email: olivia.wajsen@instytutkultury.pl.
A New Series of Literary Meetings
The Wrocław Publishing Programme invites you not only to publish and read local books, but also to discuss Wrocław literature. On April 13, we invite you to the Barbara café-club for the first meeting of the series „Wrocławski Program Wydawniczy prezentuje” – we’ll meet Bartłomiej Krzysztan, a Caucasus scholar and author of the book „Historia Karabachu. O państwie, którego nie było” – one of the winners of the WPW 2024 award. This fascinating book, published by the College of Eastern Europe, is a multidimensional story of memory, identity, and rivalry, in which local conflicts reflect universal mechanisms of power and belonging.
Together, we will examine Nagorno-Karabakh to see how an apparently marginal place becomes the key to understanding global processes. The meeting with Bartłomiej Krysztan will be moderated by Jakub Bornio, an expert from the Institute of European Studies at the Wrocław University. Free admission!
