The Château de Lavigny Grant Fellowship is a four-week residency run by the Fondation Ledig-Rowohlt at its château in Lavigny, canton of Vaud, Switzerland. Up to six writers and translators share each session, plan their own time and give one public reading.
It shares one application form with the Ledig-Rowohlt Grant Fellowship, which adds a CHF 1,200 food stipend; the form asks whether you would take this lodging-only place if the Ledig-Rowohlt award is not offered.
Benefits & funding
- Four weeks in a private room at the château.
- An aperitif every evening and one dinner a week, offered by the management.
- No stipend: residents buy and cook their own meals.
Eligibility
- Open to any nationality.
- At least one published book (self-published not accepted) in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, literary translation, plays or screenplays; playwrights and scriptwriters must be published or produced.
- Fluent English or French is required.
- The château is hard to reach for people with reduced mobility.
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Application process
- 1Prepare the 2027 form (at least two session choices), a half-page personal statement, a half-page project statement, a one-page CV and a published excerpt of up to eight pages in English, French or German.
- 2Obtain one recommendation letter from a published writer, critic, publisher or translator about your Lavigny project.
- 3Email everything in English or French as one PDF to contact@chateaudelavigny.ch by 15 October; incomplete files are not considered.
Program timeline
15 October 2026
Application deadline (2027 sessions)
Decisions
Early December 2026
Session 1 starts
1 June 2027
Session 4 ends
20 September 2027