Bokdagar i Dalsland

Bokdagar i Dalsland is a non-profit association based in Åmål, Sweden working on arts & culture, education.

Bokdagar i Dalsland is a non-profit literary association based in Åmål, Sweden, working to promote literature connected to the Dalsland area and the Nordic countries. Its year-round activities cover literary evenings with author guests, the Bokdagar i Dalsland literature festival held each summer, the Nordiska Novelldagarna short story festival, the Poesidagar i Dalsland poetry festival, seminars and book clubs. It runs a writers-in-residence programme at the Nordic Literature House in Åmål, a scholarship and prize programme including the Dalslands Sparbank Literaturpris and Skrivarstipendium, and writing classes such as the Nya Röster project for young refugee women from Syria. It also maintains a network of public book exchange cabinets across Dalsland and publishes the membership publication Korpgluggen. The association has around 300 members and about 70 volunteers, and membership is open to anyone interested in literature.