80 writers from across Europe have already booked to join us in September.

We hope you will join us! Don't wait too long to book as places will sell out. Come for:

✨️ writing workshops
✨️ exploring Madrid
✨️ new friends
✨️ good food and wine

White text on a teal background. EWS logo, a circle with an olive branch and EWS in the centre, in the top right corner. Text reads: pop-up salon, Amsterdam, 4 Jun 2026 · The American Book Center, Spui 12, Amsterdam. The bottom half is a colour photo of an audience watching a reading at one of our salons.

EWS is heading to Amsterdam!

At this fun and friendly open mic salon, we'll listen to excellent readings, drink wine and get to know writers from Amsterdam and across Europe.

Further details will be made available nearer the time, including how to sign up to read and exact timings. Link below.

Matthew Wheeler (Thailand 2002-2004) & @steventagle.com (Greece 2021-2023) meet up in Bangkok to trade fellowship stories, discuss how the city has changed & Matt’s work researching Southeast Asian security issues for @crisisgroup.org. Steven wears his trusty ICWA cap whenever he travels.

Thailand Photos from a first trip to Asia in 2013.

"The Buddhist temples tapered to heaven, the golden faces of deities fearsome or serene. Visitors placed coins in their mouths, covered them in gold leaf." Former fellow @steventagle.com shares photos from a 2013 trip to Thailand on Compass: compass.icwa.org/p/thailand

Lahaina has done the impossible & rebuilt itself after it burned to the ground.

I hope our world, which is currently on fire, can do the same.

Read my new #poem: compass.icwa.org/p/lahaina.

Thank you @icwa.org & @cassmannes.bsky.social for making it happen.

#marianazos

In May 2013, I took my first trip to the vertically oriented city of Hong Kong. Grateful for the opportunity to revisit some of the photos I took then for @icwa.org's Compass: compass.icwa.org/p/hong-kong

Congratulations to the new @icwa.org fellows!!

Happy to help Xander Beattie launch his thrilling novel The President in LA! Our fireside chat will be available online soon. Thank you to everyone who came to share the night with us. (Also a great plug for @andchangepoetry.bsky.social community!) pronk.press/a-hollywood-...

Reading an excerpt from my @offassignment.bsky.social essay, “To the First-Time Porn Star,” last night at Zurich Spoken Word. Thank you, Yun, for the snap and the community! Here’s a link to read the full piece: www.offassignment.com/articles/ste...

In a remote Greek village, fresh and vibrant local flavors In Pitios, on the island of Chios, O Cafenes tou Giorgi draws from old tradition.

For Compass, former ICWA fellow @steventagle.com returns to the remote Greek island of Chios to savor the flavor & tradition of village cuisine at Evi Katsioni's O Cafenes tou Giorgi in the central square of medieval Pitios: compass.icwa.org/p/in-a-remot...

Julie wearing a red coat, leaning against a railing in a modern building

Following the success of Julie Irigaray's Prose Poetry Workshop, we’re delighted to bring you her new online course, The Body in Poetry

📅 Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:00 - 20:00 BST

Whether it is changing, (un)tamed, or suffering, the body plays a greater role in our lives than we want to admit...

Really happy to cameo in @aldbera.bsky.social’s piece about @saloneurope.bsky.social, which captures how unique and special the weekend was. Yay for nerding out over tea, and long live the Scroll! 📜

poetry and prose reading

big room of readers and audience

keynote address

3 days. 3 salons. 5 hosts. 25 readers. 100 attendees. intimate moments and communal ones, laughter and tears, favorites new and old. @saloneurope.bsky.social, see you next year in Madrid, Sept 25-27, to do it all again.

European Writers Salon Substack | SalonEurope | Substack Newsletter for the European Writers Salon. Find out all the latest happenings across Europe and ensure you never miss out on our events. Click to read European Writers Salon Substack, by SalonEurope, ...

After an incredible weekend at @saloneurope.bsky.social's #EWSBrussels2025, I decided to upgrade to Supporter. The Salon exceeded my expectations in every way. If you can, I encourage you to support EWS's vital work! If you're curious, happy to chat. europeanwriterssalon.substack.com?r=1x8pg&utm_...

We ended the morning by writing in the park in the ☀️
Thank you to @steventagle.com @nancyfreund.bsky.social @cancienne.bsky.social @nomad-sw18.bsky.social - a perfect morning

Very exciting to launch Compass, a new Substack journal we’ve been developing this year. @ICWA.org fellows and others, we welcome your contributions!

Just now discovering Robert Lax, who moved from New York to Greece at 46 and lived on the islands of Kalymnos and Patmos, writing tall, stark poems about sky and sea. What a find! www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

How to Write a Letter of Interest for the Institute of Current World Affairs A guide to applying for the ICWA two-year international writing fellowship and tips for crafting a letter of interest.

Would you like to immerse yourself in a foreign culture or society for two years? For Accepted.com, I share tips for writing an @icwa.org letter of interest, the first step in the application process. Letters for 2026-2028 fellowships are due on June 15! blog.accepted.com/how-to-write...

This is 40. #sechseläuten #sechseläutenplatz #zurich #switzerland

💜💜💜 @offassignment.bsky.social you always know how to make my day!

I can’t wait for OA’s upcoming “Modern Love Submission Workshop,” which will enable us to share and discuss drafts of our Modern Love essays with Lavinia in an intimate setting. It’s a great way to push yourself to make ML’s spring submission window! mailchi.mp/offassignmen...

Last summer, @offassignment.bsky.social's month-long “Writing the Modern Love Essay” Masters’ Series course, led by @laviniaspalding.bsky.social, gave me insight into the column’s structure & helped me answer a tricky question: What's my unique revelation about the nature of love & relationships?

Welcome to bsky, @offassignment.bsky.social 🤓💜

Glad for the opportunity to speak with former fellow Casey Kelso about the global implications of Africa’s debt crisis for @icwafellows.

To the First-Time Porn Star — Off Assignment “You’d chosen a fitting alias—unique enough to stand out from Sean Cody’s stable of all-American jocks named Mark and Ken, but not laughable like Knox or Shamu. ‘Charley’ with a y dangling off the e...

Grateful to learn that my essay is one of @OffAssignment’s most read of 2024, along with nine other stunning stories from around the world. Thank you to everyone who read and shared my work 🥹 www.offassignment.com/articles/ste...

Letter from an erotic awakening My essay "To the First-Time Porn Star" in Off Assignment

Launching my Substack with this “Letter from an erotic awakening,” recently published on Off Assignment. Read it here, and if you enjoy it, please subscribe & share! open.substack.com/pub/steventa...

To the First-Time Porn Star — Off Assignment “You’d chosen a fitting alias—unique enough to stand out from Sean Cody’s stable of all-American jocks named Mark and Ken, but not laughable like Knox or Shamu. ‘Charley’ with a y dangling off the e...

For OffAssignment, I wrote about a stranger who haunts me: When I was 26, Charley on Sean Cody presented an empathetic, ecstatic vision of sexuality that accompanied me through major life changes. You can read my letter to Charley here: www.offassignment.com/articles/ste...

Can you please add me? American writer in Zurich :)

We made a Starter Pack for anyone new to this place so we can find our people. Let us know if you want to be added to it
go.bsky.app/73irajm

Great idea, Wes! Please add me