We are delighted to once again be able to offer a wide range of consulting days for solo self-employed individuals from Berlin’s literary scene in November. Whether you are looking for an agency or publisher, need help with grant applications, accounting, publishing contracts, or self-publishing, our experts are happy to assist you with their advice.
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We have once again planned a wide range of consultation days for you in October. Over the next few weeks, you will have the opportunity to ask our experts your questions about self-publishing, cultural education, finding agencies and publishers, networking, accounting, literary translation, and podcasts on a total of seven consultation days.
schreiben&lebenPLUS will once again be represented with an information stand at BUCHBERLIN (ARENA BERLIN, Eichenstraße 4, 12435 Berlin) on September 27 and 28, 2025. We will be providing information about our project and offering free 20-minute mini-consultations on various topics.
After an eventful first half of 2025 with numerous consultation appointments, our participation at the Leipzig Book Fair, the launch of our mentoring program for people affected by classism in the literary industry and a successful Ninth Industry Meetup Literature, our project is taking a little summer break during the next couple of weeks.
At the end of July, we will be taking a two-month break from consulting. Before then, however, we still have numerous consultation appointments for you in July, where our experts will answer your questions on the topics of contract negotiation, translation, agency and publisher search, children’s and young adult literature, self-promotion and PR as well as exposés, scholarships and grant applications.
May was dominated by the Ninth Industry Meetup Literature, but in June we will continue with our regular consultation services as usual. On our upcoming consultation days, our experts will once again answer your individual questions on a variety of practical professional topics in free 45-minute one-to-one appointments.
From May 15 to 17, 2025, our annual Industry Meetup Literature will once again take place at the Refugio in Neukölln (Lenaustraße 3-4, 12047 Berlin-Neukölln), this time dedicated to the overarching theme “My fear and me: finding security in insecure times”. As always, a very special program highlight will be our Industry Meetup Barcamp, which will take place all day on Saturday, 17 May 2025.
Fear is currently creeping into all our lives in many ways. For example, as fear of the global situation, fear of the economic crisis, fear of funding cuts or fear of technological disruptions that threaten the existence of many writers. Fear is an emotion and as such is neither good nor bad per se. But our fear wants to talk to us, and at the moment it obviously has a lot to say.
The Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion is once again awarding work stipends for German and non-German literature this year. The application deadlines are 6 May 2025 (work stipends for German literature) and 20 May 2025 (work stipends for Non-German literature) at 11 am, respectively.
To support this year’s applicants, we are offering two digital info sessions in cooperation with the Senate Department next week.
March is just around the corner and with it another colorful bouquet of consultation days, where our experts will answer your individual questions on a variety of practical topics in free 45-minute one-on-one appointments.