Genre: Translation

Hemingway-Pfeiffer Writer-in-Residence Program

The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center at Arkansas State University offers a monthlong residency in June to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators in Piggott, Arkansas. The residency includes a loft apartment on the downtown square in Piggott, a $1,000 stipend to help cover food and transportation costs, and the opportunity to write in the studio where Ernest Hemingway worked on A Farewell to Arms in 1928. The writer-in-residence will serve as a mentor for eight to ten writers in a weeklong retreat at the education center.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
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no
Event Date: 
June 1, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
February 28, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
September 10, 2024
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

Hemingway-Pfeiffer Writer-in-Residence Program, 1913 Museum Row, Piggott, AR 72454. (870) 598-3487. Adam Long, Executive Director.

Adam Long
Executive Director
Contact City: 
Piggott
Contact State: 
AR
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
72454
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Hiromi Kawakami and Adam Ehrlich Sachs

Caption: 

In this event, authors Hiromi Kawakami and Adam Ehrlich Sachs discuss writing about specific places, fiction’s relationship to personal truth, and their literary inspirations in a conversation with Motoyuki Shibata, translator and founder of the Japanese journal MONKEY New Writing From Japan. Kawakami’s new novel, Under the Eye of the Big Bird (Soft Skull Press, 2024), ), translated from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda, is featured in Page One in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

 

Genre: 
Fiction
Translation
Tags: 
Hiromi Kawakami
Adam Ehrlich Sachs
Motoyuki Shibata
MONKEY New Writing From Japan
Under the Eye of the Big Bird
Soft Skull Press
Japanese
Page One
September/October 2024

Prospect Street Writers House

September/October 2024

Prospect Street Writers House offers one- and two-week residencies in January and from May through November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at the Prospect Street residency in the village of North Bennington, Vermont. Residents are provided with lodging in dorm-style bedrooms with a private bathroom and an en suite kitchenette and sitting room, as well as access to shared common spaces, including a kitchen, dining room, great room, library, office, porch, and a half-acre garden with a terrace.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
January 1, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
September 10, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
September 10, 2024
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Prospect Street Writers House, 20 Prospect Street, North Bennington, VT 05257. (802) 730-4125. Gary Clark, Managing Director.

Gary Clark
Managing Editor
Contact City: 
North Bennington
Contact State: 
VT
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
05257
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

American Literary Translators Association Conference

September/October 2024

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

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
October 25, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
September 9, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
September 10, 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
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
September 10, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
September 10, 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, submit 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
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
February 1, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
October 1, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
September 10, 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
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
September 10, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
September 10, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
September 10, 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

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 are available.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
September 10, 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
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A large red building with a gray roof next to a river.
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.

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