The Baltic Writing Residency in Latvia was founded in 2008 in an effort to nurture the literary arts by offering talented individuals both a comfortable and rich cultural environment in which to immerse themselves, and a substantial amount of time in which to begin or further significant projects. Thus, each year, a single poet, playwright, or writer of fiction is offered a month-long residency at the gorgeous Hotel Bergs in historic Riga.

Emma Jones, an Australian, is currently poet-in-residence at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere, Cumbria, England, and is author of one volume of verse, The Striped World (Faber & Faber, 2009), which won both Australia’s Queensland Premier’s Literary Award, as well as the Forward Poetry Prize for first book, the UK's most prestigious award for a first book of poems. READ MORE >>