Littfest

Founded in 2006, Littfest is a non-profit association based in Umeå, Sweden working on arts & culture, refugees & migration, human rights.

Littfest is a non-profit cultural association based in Umeå, Sweden, that plans and runs Littfest, Umeå's international literature festival, held annually since 2007 with the first planning in 2006. The festival offers public programmes of seminars, workshops, readings and prize ceremonies, along with a free programme for young people and a school programme. Its projects include Littfest Översätter, which supports exiled writers from ICORN in translation and literary networking, and it takes part in the European poetry network Versopolis and the ArtACT project. The association is politically and religiously neutral and is led by a board elected at its annual meeting. Its work is largely carried out by a small number of part-time coordinators supported by volunteers.