Genre: Translation

Sarasvati Creative Space

Sarasvati Creative Space offers residencies of one week to four months between April and November to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at the 17-acre Camp Wonder Wander in the rural hills of Lewis County, Tennessee, near the Buffalo River. Limited space is also available between December and March; inquiries can be made via e-mail. 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 available based on the writer’s needs.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
February 12, 2026
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
February 12, 2026
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Sarasvati Creative Space, 599 Gaither Hinson Road, Waynesboro, TN 38485. (931) 345-7005. 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

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 a private barn loft or studio, which includes a bed, a work space, and a bathroom (which may be shared with one other person) as well as meals.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
February 12, 2026
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
February 12, 2026
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
February 12, 2026
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

Djerassi Resident Artists Program, 2325 Bear Gulch Road, Woodside, CA 94062. Natasha Noel, Communications Lead.

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

Wonder Mountain Desert Cabin

The Wonder Mountain Desert Cabin offers two-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative 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: 
February 12, 2026
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
February 12, 2026
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
February 12, 2026
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

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

Support for Artists Grants

New York State Council on the Arts
Entry Fee: 
$0
Deadline: 
July 17, 2024

Grants of $10,000 each will be given annually to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators who are residents of New York State and are sponsored by an eligible

Prize in Translation

Gulf Coast
Entry Fee: 
$20
Deadline: 
August 31, 2024
A prize of $1,000 and publication in Gulf Coast is given in alternating years for a group of poems or a prose excerpt translated from any language into English. The 2024 prize will be given for a single poem. Submit up to 10 pages of poetry translated into English, a copy of the original text, a brief bio of the author, a synopsis of the work being translated, and proof of permission to translate the work with a $20 entry fee, which includes a subscription to Gulf Coast, by August 31. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
Tags: 
translations

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