In Wiesbaden, both individual donors and the local authority are committed to promoting literature and language. The Villa Clementine House of Literature offers literary associations and bookshops an attractive and affordable venue for their events.

Since 2009, the Department of Culture has awarded an annual residency scholarship to crime writers. It is endowed with €4,000 each (as of 2015) and includes a four-week stay in the scholarship holders' apartments at the Literaturhaus. The scholarship is linked to the publication of a short crime novel, which the scholarship holders must write during their stay. The crime fiction scholarship emerged from the Women's Crime Fiction Prize, which was awarded by the city and the Cultural Office on the initiative of the Women's Museum in 2000-05. The RheinMain University of Applied Sciences launched the "Young Authors" poetry lectureship in 2004.

Since 1998, Wiesabden has awarded the George Konell Prize every two years, the George Konell Sponsorship PrizePrize every two years, the George Konell Sponsorship Prize for Wiesbaden pupils in grades 9 to 11 and, since 2012, the "Orphil" poetry prize. The Literaturhaus regularly offers writing workshops.