Genre: Translation

Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award

American Literary Translators Association
Entry Fee: 
$0
Deadline: 
March 18, 2024
A prize of $5,000 is given annually for a book of fiction or nonfiction written by an author of Spanish nationality and published in the previous year. Publishers or translators may submit a book translated from Basque, Catalan, Galician, or Spanish into English and published in the United States in 2023 by March 18. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for the required entry form and complete guidelines.

National Translation Awards

American Literary Translators Association
Entry Fee: 
$30
Deadline: 
March 18, 2024
Two prizes of $4,000 each are given annually for a book of poetry and a book of prose translated from any language into English and published in the previous year. For the poetry prize, poetry collections in translation are accepted; for the prose prize, short story collections, essay collections, novels, memoirs, and hybrid prose works in translation are accepted. Publishers may submit a book published in 2023 by March 18. The entry fee is $50 for presses that publish more than 10 titles each year and $30 for presses that publish 10 or fewer titles each year. Visit the website for the required entry form and complete guidelines.

100-Word Writing Contest

Tadpole Press
Entry Fee: 
$15
Deadline: 
April 30, 2024
A prize of $2,000 is given biannually for a work of flash poetry or prose. Manuscripts written in a language other than English are accepted when accompanied by an English translation. Submit a work of poetry, fiction, or nonfiction of up to 100 words with a $15 entry fee by April 30. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Upcoming Contest Deadlines

Don’t let your writing life become a version of Groundhog Day, the 1993 film in which a disgruntled weatherman—played by Bill Murray—must relive, seemingly ad infinitum, the eponymous holiday. Change things up by submitting your work to a new contest! Nine awards have a deadline of February 15 or February 16, offering prizes that include $3,000 and publication for collections of poetry, fiction, and essays; $1,000 for a poetry collection translated from any language into English; and five prizes of $1,000 to $1,500 for a single poem “composed in the traditional modes of meter, rhyme, and received forms.” Good luck, writers!

Academy of American Poets
Ambroggio Prize

A prize of $1,000 and publication by University of Arizona Press is given annually for a poetry collection originally written in Spanish by a living writer and translated into English. Norma Elia Cantú will judge. Deadline: February 15. Entry fee: None.

Academy of American Poets
Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

A prize of $1,000 is given annually for a poetry collection translated from any language into English and published in the United States during the previous year. Valzhyna Mort will judge. Deadline: February 15. Entry fee: None.

Arrowsmith Press
Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry

 A prize of $2,000 is given annually for a poetry collection published in English during the previous year by a writer who is not a citizen of the United States. English translations of works originally written in another language are accepted. Deadline: February 15. Entry fee: $20.

Center for African American Poetry and Poetics/Autumn House Press
Book Prize

A prize of $3,000 and publication by Autumn House Press is given annually for a first or second poetry collection (or a work that intersects with poetry, including hybrid text, speculative prose, and translation) by a writer of African descent. Aracelis Girmay will judge. Deadline: February 15. Entry fee: None.

Finishing Line Press
Open Chapbook Competition
A prize of $1,500 and publication by Finishing Line Press is given annually for a poetry chapbook. Manuscripts written in a language other than English are accepted when accompanied by an English translation. Deadline: February 15. Entry fee: $20.

Furious Flower Poetry Center
Furious Flower Poetry Prize

A prize of $1,500 and publication in Obsidian, the literary journal of Illinois State University, is given annually for a group of poems that explore Black themes. The winner also receives a $500 honorarium to give a reading at James Madison University. Poets who have published no more than one poetry collection are eligible. Roger Reeves will judge. Deadline: February 15. Entry fee: $15.

Omnidawn Publishing
First/Second Poetry Book Contest

A prize of $3,000, publication by Omnidawn Publishing, and 20 author copies is given annually for a first or second poetry collection. Desirée Alvarez will judge. Deadline: February 16. Entry fee: $35.

Sarabande Books
Morton, McCarthy, and Sarabande Prizes

Two prizes of $3,000 each and publication by Sarabande Books are given annually for collections of poetry and fiction; in 2024, a new prize of $3,000 and publication will also be given for a collection of essays. For the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, Hanif Abdurraqib will judge. For the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, Lauren Groff will judge. For the Sarabande Prize in the Essay, Alexander Chee will judge. Deadline: February 15. Entry fee: $29.

West Chester University
Poetry Awards

Five prizes of $1,000 to $1,500 will be given annually for a single poem “composed in the traditional modes of meter, rhyme, and received forms” (Iris N. Spencer Poetry Award); a single poem written in haiku form (Myong Cha Son Haiku Award); a single poem written in sonnet form (Sonnet Award); a single poem written in villanelle form (Villanelle Award); and a single poem written in Spanish and accompanied by the English translation or translated into Spanish and accompanied by the English original (Rhina P. Espaillat Award). Second-place prizes of $500 will also be awarded for the Iris N. Spencer Poetry Award and the Myong Cha Son Haiku Award. Only undergraduate students who are enrolled in a United States college or university are eligible. Ernest Hilbert will judge. Deadline: February 16. Entry fee: None.

Visit the contest websites for complete guidelines, and check out the Grants & Awards database and Submission Calendar for more contests in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and translation.

Emily Wilson: The Iliad

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In this 2023 London Review of Books event, Emily Wilson reads from and discusses her translation of The Iliad by Homer, published in September by Norton, and how she wishes to present Homer to a new generation in a conversation with classicist and historian Edith Hall. Passages from Wilson’s translation are also read by actors Tobias Menzies and Juliet Stevenson.

Toshikazu Kawaguchi on the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series

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In this Pan Macmillan video, Toshikazu Kawaguchi talks about his surprise of the international popularity of his Before the Coffee Gets Cold series and the theme of awkward intimacy that runs through each book. His latest book, Before We Say Goodbye (Hanover Square Press, 2023), translated from the Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, concludes the series.

Yu Miri: The End of August

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In this event hosted by the Korea Society in New York, prolific and award-winning author Yu Miri talks about her family’s history under Japanese occupation, her struggles writing for Japanese and Korean readers as a Zainichi Korean author, and the themes in her latest translated novel, The End of August (Riverhead Books, 2023), translated from the Japanese by Morgan Giles.

MacDowell

MacDowell offers residencies of up to six weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on 450 wooded acres near Mt. Monadnock in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Residents are provided with a private studio and work space, as well as access to the James Baldwin Library. Stipends and travel reimbursement grants are available based on financial need.

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

MacDowell, 100 High Street, Peterborough, NH 03458. (603) 924-3886, ext. 103. David Macy, Resident Director.

David Macy
Resident Director
Contact City: 
Peterborough
Contact State: 
NH
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
03458
Country: 
US

Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

Academy of American Poets
Entry Fee: 
$0
Deadline: 
February 15, 2024
A prize of $1,000 is given annually for a poetry collection translated from any language into English and published in the United States during the previous year. Valzhyna Mort will judge. Publishers may submit two copies of a book of at least 48 pages in length published in 2023 by February 15. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for the required entry form and complete guidelines.

Translation Projects Fellowship

National Endowment for the Arts
Entry Fee: 
$0
Deadline: 
January 18, 2024
Approximately 20 grants of up to $25,000 each are given annually to translators of poetry and prose. Writers who are citizens or permanent residents of the U.S. and who have published, alone or in collaboration, at least 20 pages of literary translation in digital or print publications, or at least one book or other volume of translation of at least 20 pages between January 1, 2009, and January 18, 2024, are eligible. Using only the online submission system, submit 10 to 15 pages of translation along with the corresponding pages from the original work, a project description, a bio, a résumé for the original author, a justification of retranslation (if applicable), a list of published translations into English, and proof of the right to translate the specified work by January 18. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for the required entry form and complete guidelines.

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