From September 22 to October 19, 2026
Iryna Malyshko (Ukraine) Non-fiction
Iryna Malyshko is a Ukrainian writer, essayist, and philosopher. She is the author of several books, including War’s Notes of a Little Person. Her work focuses on war, memory, and the history of Eastern Ukraine. She is currently working on the documentary trilogy Frontier.
This residency is supported by S. Fischer Stiftung
Yulia Marfutova (Germany) Fiction
Yulia Marfutova was born in 1988 in Moscow, studied German philology and history in Berlin, earned her PhD in Münster, and now lives in the US. Her debut novel Der Himmel vor hundert Jahren was longlisted for the German Book Prize 2021. Her second novel Eine Chance ist ein höchstens spatzengroßer Vogel was published in 2025.
Anne Pitteloud (Switzerland) Fiction
Anne Pitteloud is a literary journalist and editor for Le Courrier newspaper. She has published a collection of short stories En plein vol (Ed. d’autre part, 2016) and a critical monograph entitled Catherine Safonoff. Réinventer l’île (Ed. Zoé, 2017), as well as short stories and poems in collective works. She hosts literary events and writing workshops, and is currently working on a novel.
This residency is supported by the State of Geneva
Lena Schätte (Germany)
Lena Schätte (*1993) is a writer, literary mediator and psychiatric nurse from the Ruhr region of Germany. Her novel „Das Schwarz an den Händen meines Vaters“ was published in spring 2025 by S.Fischer Publishing. It deals with alcoholism in the family system, was longlisted for the German Book Prize, received the W.G. Sebald Literature Prize, and is currently being translated into six languages.
The winner will be announced shortly (Switzerland) Fiction
Recipient of the Canton of Geneva writing grant
