Genre: Translation

American Literary Translators Association Conference

September/October 2024

The 47th annual American Literary Translators Association Conference was held from October 25 to October 28 at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee Hotel in Milwaukee. Programming included panels, workshops, bilingual readings, a bookfair, a gathering of the BIPOC Literary Translators Caucus, and opportunities to connect with editors and translators. The conference also featured special events including an awards ceremony and reading at Woodlawn Pattern, a nonprofit gallery, book center, and performance space.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
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no
Event Date: 
October 25, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
September 9, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
December 18, 2024
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

American Literary Translators Association Conference, American Literary Translators Association, University of Arizona, Esquire Building #205, 1230 North Park Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721. Elisabeth Jaquette, Executive Director.

Elisabeth Jaquette
Executive Director
Contact City: 
Milwaukee
Contact State: 
WI
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
53203
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Translation

Sarasvati Creative Space

September/October 2024

Sarasvati Creative Space offers residencies of one week to four months year-round to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators at the 17-acre Camp Wonder Wander in the rural hills of Lewis County, Tennessee, near the Buffalo River. Residents are provided with lodging in private bedrooms, some with en suite bathrooms, as well as access to shared kitchen, dining, porch, and laundry spaces. Studios are also available based on the writer’s needs.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
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yes
Event Date: 
December 18, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
December 18, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Sarasvati Creative Space, 559 Gaither Hinson Road, Waynesboro, TN 38485. (931) 321-3520. Valerie Sloan, Founder and Director. 

Valerie Sloan
Founder and Director
Contact City: 
Lewis County
Contact State: 
TN
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Djerassi Resident Artists Program

September/October 2024

The Djerassi Resident Artists Program offers monthlong residencies from February through November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on a 583-acre ranch in the Santa Cruz Mountains, approximately 37 miles south of San Francisco. Residents are provided with lodging, meals, and studio space. To apply for residencies in 2025, writers submitted up to 10 pages of poetry (excerpts of a longer poem are accepted) or no more than 30 pages of prose and a curriculum vitae with a $40 application fee by October 1.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
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no
Event Date: 
February 1, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
October 1, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
December 18, 2024
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

Djerassi Resident Artists Program, 2325 Bear Gulch Road, Woodside, CA 94062. 

Contact City: 
Woodside
Contact State: 
CA
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
94062
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Cullman Center Fellowships

New York Public Library
Entry Fee: 
$0
Deadline: 
September 27, 2024
Fifteen fellowships are given annually to artists, academics, and creative writers, including poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators, whose work will benefit directly from access to the research collections at the New York Public Library. The fellows each receive $85,000, an office at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library’s main branch in the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan, and full access to the library’s collections from September 2025 through May 2026. Fellows will be required to work on their projects at the Cullman Center for the duration of the fellowship. Writers currently enrolled in a graduate degree-granting program are ineligible. Using only the online submission system, submit a writing sample of up to 4,500 words, a project proposal of no more than 1,500 words, a curriculum vitae, and three reference letters by September 27. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
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research

Wonder Mountain Desert Cabin

September/October 2024

The Wonder Mountain Desert Cabin, sponsored by You Joy Life, offers two-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators at the Wonder Mountain Open Source Center, 15 miles northeast of Joshua Tree National Park on the ancestral homelands of the Serrano, Cahuilla, Chemehuevi, and Mohave (Mojave) indigenous communities in California. Residents are provided with a private bedroom, desk, and patio in a newly renovated, ranch-style house, as well as shared bathrooms.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
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yes
Event Date: 
December 18, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
December 18, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
December 18, 2024
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Wonder Mountain Desert Cabin, Wonder Mountain Open Source Space, 5268 Danby Road, Twentynine Palms, CA 92277. (206) 992-3932. Emily Baker, Founder and Director.

Emily Baker
Founder and Director
Contact City: 
Twentynine Palms
Contact State: 
CA
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
92277
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Malinda A. Markham Translation Prize

Saturnalia Books
Entry Fee: 
$25
Deadline: 
October 31, 2024
A prize of $2,000 and publication by Saturnalia Books is given annually for a poetry collection in translation. Translators who identify as female (including those who are assigned-female-at-birth [AFAB] nonbinary, genderfluid, agender, and intersex) and who are translating the work of a woman poet (including those who are AFAB nonbinary, genderfluid, agender, and intersex) are eligible. Using only the online submission system, submit a manuscript of 48 to 120 pages with a $25 entry fee by October 31. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Vermont Studio Center

September/October 2024

The Vermont Studio Center (VSC) offers two-, three-, and four-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators in Johnson, Vermont, a village located in the heart of the northern Green Mountains. VSC provides time and space to write, readings, craft talks, and individual consultations with invited visiting writers. Residents are provided with a private room, private studio space, and meals. The cost of the residency is $2,700 for two weeks, $3,825 for three weeks, and $4,950 for four weeks. Full and partial fellowships were available.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
December 18, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
October 1, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
October 1, 2024
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Vermont Studio Center, 80 Pearl Street, P.O. Box 613, Johnson, VT 05656. (802) 635-2727.

Contact City: 
Johnson
Contact State: 
VT
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
05656
Country: 
US
Add Image: 
A large red building with a gray roof next to a river.
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Visions of America With Kaoukab Chebaro

Caption: 

In this installment of the Visions of America: All Stories, All People, All Places series hosted by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and PBS Books, Kaoukab Chebaro, head of Global Studies at the Columbia University Libraries, discusses the importance of first-person storytelling and her work in preserving the individual history of Arabs across the globe.

Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation
Tags: 
Visions of America
Kaoukab Chebaro
PBS Books
Institute of Museum and Library Services
library
archive
Columbia University Libraries
history
Arab American
2024

Urayoán Noel Reads From the Letras Latinas Archive

Caption: 

Poet, translator, and editor Urayoán Noel reads two poems from the Letras Latinas Oral History Project, an archive that began in 2005, in this Poets House video. For more about Letras Latinas, read this Q&A with director Francisco Aragón in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Genre: 
Poetry
Translation
Tags: 
Urayoán Noel
Letras Latinas
Poets House
reading
Spanish
Latinx
March/April 2024

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