Sunday Submissions: World Literature Today Student Translation Prize
The seminal World Literature Today magazine has opened calls for its student translation prize. See below for requirements: Who can enter? The contest is open to all students, worldwide, enrolled in translation studies programs. What can they submit? An entry is a prose piece of up to 1,000 words or up to three poems, translated into English. Each piece must be accompanied by a professional cover letter. That letter must include the name of a sponsoring faculty member from the translation studies program as well as confirmation that the translated author has given permission for the translation. Is there an entry fee? Yes. A student must pay $10 for each entry (prose piece or up to three poems). How do I enter? Submit your ...
Sunday Submissions: Malinda A. Markham Translation Prize for Women Translators of Women Poets
The Malinda A Markham Translation Prize -- which honors the life and work of poet and translator Malinda A. Markham -- is open to submissions through the end of October. Organizers are looking for manuscripts that are "a translation by a female translator of a female poet. Female is interpreted as anyone who identifies as female, including AFAB nonbinary, genderfluid, agender, and intersex." The manuscript, they write, "must be an original collection of poetry from one author in any language translated into English. This includes single collections as well as selected works. In the case of a selected collection, please ensure that one does not already exist in English." The winning manuscript will be chosen by Saturnalia Books’ editors, and ...
Sunday Submissions: Sheikh Zayed Book Awards 2024
One of the most prestigious and well-endowed prizes in the region, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, is open for submissions. Books can be put forward for the ten awards below: Literature (including both fiction and poetry) Young Author (for writers under the age of 40) Children’s Literature Cultural Personality of the Year Publishing and Technology Arabic Culture in Other Languages Translation – either to or from Arabic Literary and Art Criticism Contribution to the Development of Nations Editing of Arabic manuscripts The prize is worth 750,000 dirhams (£165,000) per award. Read the full announcement on the SZBA's website and submit entries using this online portal, where the submission guidelines can also be found. The submission period closes on October 1, ...
Sunday Submissions: The Southern Review
The Southern Review, published out of Louisiana State University, has opened calls for submissions for its upcoming edition. Since their founding in 1935, The Southern Review has continued to publish the best of emerging and established authors - this includes writing in translation. The Southern Review accepts fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and translation submissions. Deadline is 1st January 2024. Find out more, including detailed submission guidelines, here ...
Sunday Submissions: The Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation
The Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation is now open for submissions. The Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation is awarded annually to the best book-length manuscript of poems in both their original language and their English translation submitted in an open competition. The award is administered by the University of Wisconsin–Madison English department, and the winner is chosen by a nationally recognized poet. The resulting book is published by the University of Wisconsin Press. The prize was founded in 2022 to cater to the readers, poets, and editors who want to read poetry written across the world. It aims to be one small part of breaking down the language barriers that divide us and help make work written in ...
Sunday Submissions: Modern Poetry in Translation ‘Water’ Focus
Modern Poetry in Translation (MPT) have opened calls for submissions for its forthcoming issue, with 'water' as its theme. They write: For our November 2023 issue, we invite new translations of poetry that relates to water. Waterways shape every culture and every language in the world. As billions around the world contend with water scarcity, floods, hurricanes, pollution of oceans, rivers, and lakes, the harms of water privatisation, the theft of water rights from indigenous peoples, and more, MPT would love to highlight poetry in translation that explores how poetics shape our imaginations as water-based creatures. We welcome poetics that hold space for both angry witness and hope, for intimate realisations in aquatic environments, or otherwise in the presence of H₂O, for both the most gargantuan and smallest-scale of waves ...
Sunday Submissions: Exchanges ‘Endurance’ Issue
The University of Iowa’s Exchanges magazine has opened calls for submissions for its ‘Endurance’ issue. Exchanges accept translations of poetry, short or excerpted fiction, plays, and literary nonfiction into English. They also welcome submissions of visual art, of any medium, to be considered as companion pieces to accepted translations. These are the submission guidelines: Both the original text and the translation in a copy-pastable text file format. Please, no .pdfs. If you absolutely must submit a .pdf in order to make the submission deadline, please notify us of this in your submission, and be prepared to supply a copy-pastable text file in advance of publication. Brief biographies (100-150 words each) of both author and translator. A Translator's Note (150-500 words, ...
Sunday Submissions: Rowayat
Rowayat magazine has opened calls for its guest edited seventh issue - the theme will be "joy." They will be accepting submissions for the following categories: Fiction (1500 – 10,000 words) Poetry (3 poems or 2 flash fiction) CNF/NonfictionAll forms of essays, memoirs, travel literature, author interviews, and book reviews. (1500 – 3000 words) Writing Central (writing tips, translation advice, or creative writing lessons). (1500 – 3000 words) Comics: 4-8 pages Art: 10-30 pages of illustrations, photography, paintings, prints, sculpture, mixed media, or design. Find out more about this issue and its editors here. Deadline for submissions is September 1st 2023 ...
Sunday Submissions: The White Review Translation Anthology
The White Review has opened calls for submissions for its exciting new anthology of writing in translation. They write: We are open to submissions for writing previously untranslated into English, including excerpts from novels, full-length short stories, narrative non-fiction and crónicas. We accept excerpts from forthcoming translations, though we are prioritising writing that is not yet under contract with English-language publishers, or work by authors who have never been published in English. Submissions should be between 2000 and 8000 words, and should have the rights’ holder’s prior agreement for publication. Submissions can also take the form of a 1000-word sample translation, along with a short synopsis of the rest of the work for consideration. The best guide to what we’re ...
Sunday Submissions: 2023 ArabLit Story Prize
Submissions for the 2023 ArabLit Story Prize are open until July 31, 2023 ...
