Every two years, the literary residency program brings ten authors into the ten cultural regions of North Rhine-Westphalia for four months. The authors spend their time out and about, discovering cities, villages and landscapes as well as meeting with their inhabitants. They present their literary and artistic impressions on the stadt.land.text NRW blog, on social media and in readings.

From March to June 2022, the project entered its third round featuring ten authors: Ulrike Anna Bleier, Rabab Haidar, Neïtah Janzing, Tanja Maljartschuk, Kadir Özdemir, Álvaro Parrilla Álvarez, Tobias Schulenburg, Tobias Siebert, Dorian Steinhoff and Stefanie de Velasco.