Our residency programmes are a crucible of ideas, debate, and literary production. They bring together writers from across Africa and the Diaspora, at all stages of their writing careers and across genres, in community to bring out the best in their thinking and their writing.
To read about the experience of being in residence at LOATAD from former residents, click here, here, here, here, or watch videos from our residency playlist here or on YouTube.
Find out more about our various programmes below:
Funded Residencies
These funded physical residencies include accommodation, meals, and intensive study/workshop sessions. Some programmes also provide subsidies for travel and/or a stipend.
Self-Funded Residencies
If you’re in search of uninterrupted time and space in an African-centred environment in a historically-significant, culturally-rich place, then consider a self-funded, self-directed residency.
Scholars at LOATAD
LOATAD welcomes emerging and established Scholars from across Africa and the Diaspora to be in residence, cementing our reputation as the home of radical public scholarship.
The Prof. Ian H. Munro Fellowship
A non-residential fellowship for Ghanaian and Ghana-based writers, artists, and cultural practitioners named in honour of the American professor of African and Caribbean literature.
Digital Residencies
LOATAD’s well-regarded digital residency combines self-study, group critique, and professional mentorship online followed by a physical element in residence at LOATAD.
Alumni
Our brilliant group of former residents from across Africa and the Diaspora are making waves in the world of literature on the continent and beyond. Find out more about them here.
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