Sunday Submissions: Willis Barnstone Translation Prize
Submissions are limited to ten per translator.
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Will Crowdfunding Become an Important Tool for Supporting Translations? A Look at Darf’s Spina Kickstarter
“Crowdfunding is becoming a useful tool for independent authors and publishers to reach a diverse readership.”
Review: Alessandro Spina’s ‘Confines of the Shadow’
This review was meant to be published two years ago, but the magazine that requested it went dark. So here, to accompany our piece on the crowdfunding campaign for the […]
Friday Finds: ‘Black Rain’, ‘Black Snow’
“So what the hell do you see?”
Celebrating Neil Hewison: An Excerpt from His Translation of ‘City of Love and Ashes’
“By God, we’ll turn them out of Egypt dancing and singing all the way . . .”
‘Under the Bridge’: The Hierarchy of Translational Labor and Two Poetry Collections
It was then that he realized the bartender
Was shaking him roughly:
Where are you off to in your dreams
You with your bill not yet even paid.
AmazonCrossing Now Accepting Submissions in Arabic
“Indeed, the AmazonCrossing website, which was previously English-only, now allows users to submit book proposals in Arabic, in addition to Bengali, German, English, Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Punjabi, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian.”
Mazen Maarouf: At the Intersection Between Surrealism and Fantasy
“In an Arabic cultural scene that’s full of novels about political and societal issues, Maarouf gives us a chance to breathe and taste something different[.]”
Sunday Submissions: The Operating System Seeking Manuscripts for ‘Unsilenced Texts’ Series
“GLOSSARIUM: UNSILENCED TEXTS AND MODERN TRANSLATIONS was established in early 2016 in an effort to recover silenced voices outside and beyond the familiar poetic canon, seeking out and publishing both contemporary translations and little known (and unknown) out of print texts, in particular those under siege by restrictive regimes and silencing practices in their home (or adoptive) countries.”