Sunday Submissions: Lunch Ticket’s Amuse-Bouche Seeks Translations
They are also interested in multilingual submissions.
Poetry
Two Plays by Ahmad Meree, in Arabic with English Surtitles, in Toronto
Two plays by Syrian playwright Ahmad Meree, in Arabic with English surtitles, made the “Now Toronto” list of 15 theatre shows to see in 2020.
Friday Finds: Najwan Darwish, ‘An Afternoon in Albaicín’
“The news of your death reached me / one sweltering afternoon / as I sat with friends on a peak of Albaicín.”
New in Translation: Excerpt from Samir Kacimi’s IPAF-longlisted ‘The Stairs of Trollar’
“Here, everyone I meet greets me. Good morning. Sir. Welcome. At your service. Everyone here is polite to the point of disgust.”
Friday Finds: ‘River of Honey, Lake of Milk’
“Ever since I discovered the miracle of white glue, I was drawn to her damaged books, repairing and binding them to heal their wounds.”
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces 2020 Longlist
The thirteen-book longlist — made up of eleven novels and two poetry collections — was chosen from among 438 nominated titles.
Sunday Submissions: ‘Denver Quarterly’ Seeking Translations
“Though not required, translators are invited to submit a Translator’s Note of 350 words or less.”
Saturday Submissions: ‘The Arkansas International’
“We welcome prose submissions of up to 8,000 words, poem packets of up to five poems, and ask that excerpts from longer works be self-contained.”
Friday Finds: ‘An Authentic Corruption’ by Hermes
“I do not write in the day what I write in the night / because I am like the owl, I have / a slow wing clap and eyes / open to the blight.”