“Note that you must be a PEN member to nominate a translator for the prize.”
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Sunday Submissions: The TA First Translation Prize and 2018 PEN/Heim Grants
“The PEN/Heim Translation Fund was established in the summer of 2003, and — since that time — it has funded a total of 139 translations from over 35 languages, including three projects translated from Arabic.”
Sunday Submissions: PEN Translation Prize Open Now
“The $3000 prize has had an Arabic winner once, in 2011, when Ibrahim Muhawi took the prize for his magic rendering of Mahmoud Darwish’s Journal of an Ordinary Grief.”
Sunday Submissions: Emerging Translator Mentorships
The application deadline is soon: July 28, 2017.
Sunday Submissions: ‘In Other Words,’ an Opportunity for Authors (and Publishers) of Children’s Literature
Last year, there were nearly 400 submissions from around the world and eight shortlisted titles. Three of these have already been sold to UK publishers: translations from the Afrikaans, Danish, and Russian.
Sunday Submissions: Anomaly, Queen Mob’s Queer Translation Issue, Miles Morland Writing Scholarship
Three new submission opportunities — two for translators and one for authors.
Sunday Submissions: 2017 Gulf Coast Prize in Translation
“Excerpts from longer works are welcome and preference will be given to contemporary work published within the last fifty years.”
Sunday Submissions: ‘Bosphorus Review of Books’
“The deadline for submissions is rolling, but BROB is currently seeking new work for the next bi-monthly edition in July.”
Sunday Submissions: The $2M ‘Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation’
As for translations into and out of European languages, there are only two in contention, but they are set to gain the biggest prizes.
Sunday Submissions: ‘Hawai’i Review’ Looking for Translations, Creative Translation, Multilingual Work
Creative translation “includes found poems, erasure poems, other genres of found or erasure work, creative mis/translation, homophonic translation, and related works. “
Sunday Submissions: ‘Nakba + 100’ Guidelines, Stephen Spender Prize, ‘Zabaan’
Deadlines: May 26 (Stephen Spender Prize), September 1 (‘Nakba + 100’), and rolling (‘Zabaan’).
Sunday Submissions: ‘A Blade of Grass,’ New Palestinian Poetry
These poets, Foyle says, should represent “a diverse range of voices, both new and established, from the Occupied Territories, ’48 Palestinians, the diaspora and the refugee community. Some poets and translators will be invited to submit work; others will be selected through this open call.”
