Fully Funded Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award 2025

The Fully Funded Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award is open to all nationals. This Retreat offers a full and partial Scholarship to talented writers to connect with other brilliant writers and enhance your writing skills. The 2025 Retreat is scheduled to run from April 23 – 27, 2025. The venue for 2025 will be the Fosshotel Reykjavík.

Full Scholarship

• Participant Fee
• Four Nights Accommodation at the retreat hotel
• Round-trip flights to Iceland

Partial Funding

• Partial funding covers the participant fee only, and neither accommodation nor round-trip flights.

• Anyone who is aged 18 or over can apply.
• Applications from people of all backgrounds and with all levels of writing experience.
• The Competition is open to the nationals of all the countries.
• IELTS is not required, but proficiency in English is required.
• The recipients will be chosen based primarily on two factors:
  • The potential they demonstrate (or have demonstrated) as a writer.
  • They need financial support to be able to attend.
• Evaluation of the answers in the online application.
• Applications will be reviewed by a group of IWR alumni.