Genre: Translation

Salty Quill Writers’ Retreat for Women

March/April 2023

The Salty Quill Writers’ Retreat for Women offers one-week residencies twice a year to twelve poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators who identify as women at McGee Island, a 110-acre private island located three miles from Port Clyde, Maine. Residents are provided with lodging at a turn-of-the-century oceanfront summer cottage, three chef-prepared meals a day, transportation to and from the island, and the opportunity to participate in after-dinner readings and critiques, and wander trails, kayak, or enjoy a sauna.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
May 20, 2023
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
June 4, 2023
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 4, 2023
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Salty Quill Writers’ Retreat for Women, 11 Willow Street, Hull, MA 02045. Pamela Loring, Director.

Pamela Loring
Director
Contact City: 
McGee Island
Contact State: 
ME
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize

American Literary Translators Association
Entry Fee: 
$0
Deadline: 
April 17, 2023
A prize of $6,000 is given annually for a book of poetry or a text from Zen Buddhism translated from an Asian language into English and published in the previous year. Publishers or translators may submit a book translated from Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Sanskrit, Tamil, Thai, or Vietnamese into English and published in 2022 by April 17. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for the required entry form and complete guidelines.

Italian Prose in Translation Award

American Literary Translators Association
Entry Fee: 
$0
Deadline: 
April 17, 2023
A prize of $5,000 is given annually for a book of fiction or nonfiction translated from Italian into English and published in the previous year. Publishers or translators may submit a book published in 2022 by April 17. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for the required entry form and complete guidelines.

Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award

American Literary Translators Association
Entry Fee: 
$0
Deadline: 
April 17, 2023
A prize of $5,000 will be given annually for a book of fiction or nonfiction whose author is of Spanish nationality translated from Spanish, Basque, Galician, or Catalan into English and published in the previous year. Translators may be based anywhere in the world. Publishers or translators may submit a book published in 2022 by April 17. 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: 
April 17, 2023
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 and verse dramas in translation are eligible; for the prose prize, short story and essay collections, novels, memoirs, prose drama, and hybrid prose works in translation are eligible. Publishers may submit a book published in 2022 by April 17. 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.

Annie Ernaux at Shakespeare and Company

Caption: 

Watch this 2018 reading and conversation with Nobel Prize–winning author Annie Ernaux celebrating the English publication of her book The Years, along with translator Alison L. Strayer and Seven Stories Press publisher Dan Simon at the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris, France.

Genre: 
Creative Nonfiction
Translation
Tags: 
Annie Ernaux
The Years
Seven Stories Press
2018
French
Alison L. Strayer
Dan Simon
Shakespeare and Company
Nobel Prize

Ou-telier Residency

January/February 2023

The Ou Gallery’s Ou-telier program offers one- to four-week residencies starting on the 1st and 16th of every month year-round to up to 12 emerging and established poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators on Gabriola Island in British Columbia, Canada. Each residency includes a private cabin and studio for writers, which can be shared with an artist collaborator or family member if needed, and costs $1,000 Canadian (approximately $733) to $2,800 Canadian (approximately $2,053), depending on the length of the stay.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
June 4, 2023
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
June 4, 2023
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 4, 2023
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Ou-telier Residency, The Ou Gallery. Barclay Rose, Cofounder.

Barclay Rose
Cofounder
Contact City: 
Gabriola Island
Contact State: 
BC
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
Country: 
CA
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

La Baldi Residency

January/February 2023

The La Baldi Residency, sponsored by Cultivate, offers two-week and one-month residencies from April through October to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators, in Montegiovi, Italy. Residents stay in private lodging with a fully equipped kitchen and outside sitting area. Individual writers and collaborative teams may apply.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
June 4, 2023
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
June 4, 2023
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 4, 2023
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

La Baldi Residency, 15504 Moravia Court, Derwood, MD 20855. Susan Main, Cultivate Director.

Susan Main
Cultivate Director
Contact City: 
Montegiovi
Country: 
IT
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Hemingway-Pfeiffer Writer-in-Residence Program

January/February 2023

The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center at Arkansas State University will offer a one-month-long residency during 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.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
June 1, 2023
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
June 4, 2023
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 4, 2023
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

2022 National Book Award Finalists Reading

Caption: 

In this video, finalists for the 2022 National Book Award in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translated literature, and young people’s literature read excerpts from their honored works. The event, hosted by writer Saraciea J. Fennell, is presented in partnership with the National Book Foundation and the NYU Creative Writing Program.

Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation
Cross-Genre
Tags: 
National Book Award
2022
young adult
reading
National Book Foundation
NYU

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