The European Writersâ Council (EWC) is a non-profit non-governmental federation constituted by currently 49 national professional writersâ and literary translatorsâ associations and unions in 31 European countries, from European Union Member States, the EEA countries Iceland and Norway, as well as Belarus, Macedonia, Montenegro, Switzerland, and United Kingdom. EWC members comprise over 220.000 professional authors in the text and book sector, writing and publishing altogether in 33 languages.