Literature

On Sunday July 7, 2024, the Creative Literature Grants of the Haifa Arts Foundation were awarded during a ceremony held at the Haifa Municipality Conference Hall. The ceremony was moderated by the Foundation’s Acting Chairperson Mrs. Bracha Sela, in the presence of members of the Foundation Management and General Assembly, CEO Mrs. Aviva Shpigelshtein, representatives of the Judging Panel, Fellowships and Scholarships recipients and members of their families.

Recipients of the 2023 grants in Creative Literature awarded by the Haifa Arts Foundation and the Writers’ Association in Haifa & the North:

The Haifa Arts Foundation Guidelines

for Creative Literature grants for 2023

The Haifa Arts Foundation

and the Writers’ Association in Haifa & the North

announce the following grants:

The Haifa Arts Foundation is extending the deadline for submitting manuscripts until July 31, 2023.

Haifa Arts Foundation in cooperation with the Association of Hebrew Writers in Israel, Haifa Branch, Announces the following grants:

During a ceremony that took place on Monday, February 2, 2022 at Yad LaBanim on Hayarkon Street, Haifa, fellowships were awarded to the winners in the presence of Mayor Dr. Einat Kalisch Rotem, Foundation CEO Mrs. Aviva Shpigelstein, members of the Board of the Haifa Arts Foundation, members of the Judging Panel, the contributors of the fellowships, and the recipients of the fellowships.

MC: Journalist Eliran Tal, Haifa Municipality Spokesman.

Grants in the Film category and from the Szabo Foundation were also awarded during this ceremony.

Haifa Arts Foundation, in collaboration with the Haifa Municipality and the National Lottery Council for Culture and Art, supported Authorizing Haifa – an event of music, theater and art, produced by A Place for Poetry.

Assistance in publication of literary works was the largest domain of personal scholarships granted by the Foundation. Over the years, Haifa Arts Foundation awarded grants to novelists, writers, poets and playwrights from Haifa, old and young.

Haifa Arts Foundation assisted in the publication of the Haifa Poems anthology, published by Hakibbutz Hameuchad with the assistance of the national lottery, edited by Shunit Cohen, Ilana Shahaf and Uzi Shavit. The anthology includes a selection of 88 poems about the city of Haifa, written by poets over a period of about 100 years, with 36 photographs taken by the best photographers between 1912 and 2012, the year of publication. The photos are of natural, urban and human landscapes, attempting to reflect a variety of voices of cultures, religions and nationalities that exist side by side in Haifa.

 Lev HaPri was published by the Student Union at the University of Haifa. The magazine showcases stories and poems by Jewish and Arab students.

Haifa Arts Foundation's support for the Holiday of Holydays Festival enabled a total renovation of outdoor posters in Hana Abu Hanna's Poet's Way, and in Sami Michael's Author's Path, Man is the Crown of God's Creation. The renewal included printing, framing and hanging of the posters.

Haifa Arts Foundation encouraged publication of literary anthologies by familiar organizations such as the Haifa Association of Writers, in order to allow local writers, especially those at the beginning of their way, to publish personal works in a scope that does not allow for publication of a full-scale book. Sometimes, the Foundation itself referred striving writers to the editors. In addition, the Foundation assisted in the publication of journals whose staffers were from Haifa, while the writers, poets, painters and sculptors whose workes were published were from all over the country.

Galim Ofakim Hadashim, vol. 10, 2003

Anthology of culture, literature, art and society. Founder: Ada Aharoni, 1987

Haifa Arts Foundation allocated two scholarships to authors, for a week's stay in Haifa (B&B), in accordance with the agreement between the Foundation and the Israel Association of Writers.

Haifa Arts Foundation helps Alofek Association's literary soirees, taking place monthly at the Colony Hotel.

Writers, poets and intellectuals from Haifa and the area take part in the events.