Purpose/Activities

 

The European Writers’ Congress (EWC) was founded in 1977 as the Federation of European Writers’ Associations and has evolved into an organisation of 100,000 individual writers, belonging to 60 member organisations, currently spanning 32 countries of Europe. IT facilitates trans-European cultural and literary cooperation, the realisation of common projects and the professional exchange of experience and good practice among 60 writers’ associations in 32 countries. The EWC advocates the literatures of Europe – South and North, East and West – and the creators of literature: poetry, fiction and non-fiction, juvenile and children's literature, drama, screenplay, multimedia works and translation of all forms of literary works, while contributing to the debate on the role of creators, culture and cultural policy in the ever growing European Union and improving relations with the "new neighbours". It encourages personal contacts among individual authors of different nationalities and a constructive dialogue between literary translators and writers on the one hand and protagonists of the book chain, European policymakers and the reading public on the other.

 

The most important areas of the EWC concern

authors' rights,

cultural policy and

cultural exchange.

 

The EWC remains determined to raise and publicly present the commitment of some 100,000 professional writers and literary translators to shaping the profile of Europe via individual creativity and common elements of cultural policy within the diversity of expressions.

 

Periodical Publications:

EWC Newsletter,

EWC Reports,

EWC e-monthly.