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In the UK’s National Year of Reading, Airbnb will partner with arts charity Hay Festival to launch Room to Write – a new writing award.
Rooted in Hay Festival’s commitment to nurturing contemporary writing and Airbnb’s mission to enable meaningful travel and connection, Room to Write champions creativity and the importance of place and space in storytelling.
Developed with Hay Festival to support writers at a critical stage in their career, the Room to Write award recognises that time, space, and a change of environment are essential to fuel creativity and often inaccessible due to financial or personal constraints.
Open to UK-based writers, the award offers eight recipients an Airbnb coupon worth £1,500, enabling them to stay in a UK location of their choosing to support focused writing.
Applications for the award are open now here, closing Sunday 31 May. See the website for detailed full terms and conditions.
An accompanying digital content series, recorded at the Festival’s flagship UK edition, 21–31 May, will feature established writers sharing their top writing tips and reflections on the role of place in storytelling, to engage a wider audience in creative inspiration.
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