Check out this new opportunity for translators working from Urdu!
Oxford Translates is an online literary translation summer school that will take place July 6-10, 2026.
Advance notice 😊
Interested in learning more about the art of translation? Want some practical advice from a Booker Prize-winning translator?
Then join @WasafiriMag this autumn for workshops with writer and translator Deepa Bhasthi!
Full details here:
SALT Travel Grants for translators are now OPEN! Apply by March 9th!
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Looking forward to talking craft with some incredible people.
Please join us if you can!
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Excited to be mentor for the first children's book translation mentorship from ALTA, sponsored by @saltatchicago.bsky.social 😍
Excited to be working with Riya Parikh over the next year.
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Congratulations to PEN Translates x SALT winner: Guilty as Charged: selected poems of exile 1981-1987 by Fahmida Riaz (Pakistan), translated from Urdu by Poorna Swami (Ugly Duckling Presse)!
A special shoutout to former SALT mentee Poorna Swami!
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Orange background with cream and black text announcing the 2026 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, its categories of Fiction, Life Writing, and Poetry, £1000 prize and deadline
Orange background with cream and black text announcing the 2026 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize judges by category: Ellah Wakatama (Chair), Santanu Bhattacharya (Fiction), Jen Calleja (Life Writing), Mona Kareem (Poetry)
The Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize is now open for entries!
Our 2026 Chair is Ellah Wakatama, with Santanu Bhattacharya (Fiction), Jen Calleja (Life Writing), and Mona Kareem (Poetry).
Read the full announcement and submit your work by 30 June: buff.ly/s4ol0ap
THE ROOF BENEATH THEIR FEET by Geetanjali Shree (tr. Rahul Soni) publishes today!
‘This novel, although on a much smaller scale than Shree’s International Booker winner Tomb of Sand, is just as full of exuberance and inventiveness.’
The Guardian
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BCLT Summer School applications in literary translation are OPEN until March 15!
There are two tracks for translators from South Asian languages with full scholarships attached.
Check out the application requirements here:
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Pale cream background. Pale blue header reads: Literary Prizes in UK Publishing. Underneath in dark blue text: Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize Launch. Under that is a pale yellow sun illustration with four photos over the top showing the speakers for the event.
We are pleased to announce a special event – organised by the School of the Arts at QMUL alongside the Republic of Consciousness Foundation – to celebrate the launch of the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize (formerly the Republic of Consciousness Prize).
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🎉 The National Book Critics Circle Awards finalists are here! Congratulations to all on these lists, including ALTA member Paige Aniyah Morris, 2026 ALTA mentor Deepa Bhasthi, and past National Translation Award winner Martin Aitken! www.bookcritics.org/awards/
✨ Applications are open for the John Dryden Translation Competition ✨
Sponsored by the BCLA and the BCLT, the competition awards prizes for the best unpublished literary translations from any language into English.
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“Translation for me is just one of the ways in which I choose to express myself.”
ALTA 2026 Mentor Deepa Bhasthi shares her thoughts on multilingualism and translation in HEART LAMP and beyond. At t2ONLINE:
We are excited to open applications for a UK-based Translator in Residence working with/in Endangered Languages.
Find full details, including fee and residency requirements, below.
Application deadline: 15 February, 2026
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Submissions are open for the WLT Student Translation Prize. If you’re a student enrolled in a translation studies program, send your prose and poems in by 1/10/26. We want to read your translations! All the details are here in the link:
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Spend a week in Vermont next June studying the art of literary translation, June 14-20! Feat. faculty including Jennifer Croft and many others, the 12th Annual Bread Loaf Translators' Conference is where to be. Rolling apps close 3/15; financial aid available: buff.ly/ev3zAHQ
Check out SALT mentee Sadia Khatri's film project, AMRIT PYALA, which is documenting Sufi and Bhakti folk musicians in Pakistan!
SALT has 3 grant deadlines coming up on November 30th!
Don't forget to apply!
2025 ALTA x SALT translation mentee Shuchi Agrawal wrote a thoughtful essay about her experience attending the ALTA conference and participating in SALT programming at the University of Chicago!
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Literary translators! Our publisher, @twolinespress.com, is currently open for submissions for animal stories in translation (from any language) & the Stevns Translation Prize (for Vietnamese translators). As always, no submissions fees.
For more info visit: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...
Calling all publishers, booksellers, and promoters of South Asian literature!
Apply for promotional grants through PEN by November 30th!
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Our second reading from our translation mentorships are tonight in Chicago!!
Excited and a bit emotional. This has been a big year and a great opportunity.
Congratulations to all the 2025 PEN Presents x SALT shortlistees!
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Friends of SALT in the Chicago area!
Please join us on Monday, November 10th, at the South Asia Institute for an evening of readings in translation!
Featuring award-winning translators Daisy Rockwell, Shabnam Nadiya, Srinath Perur and more!
Calling all publishers and emerging translators of South Asian literature!
We have two important deadlines coming up this month, don't forget to apply!
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Our Calico Series is open for submissions for 🐾 animal stories 🐾 in translation! Open to translations from any language into English, word count between 2k to 10k words, deadline January 15, 2026! Full submission details here: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...
SALT had an amazing time talking about translation at LUMS University in Lahore!
Students had the opportunity to take workshops with Daisy Rockwell, Luke Soucy, and Jason Grunebaum.
Thank you to the incredible Bilal Tanweer for hosting us this October!
PEN Translates x SALT grants are open!
Are you a publisher looking to fund a translation project from a South Asian language?
Apply by November 30th!
Reminder that SALT Travel Grant applications are due TOMORROW September 30th!
Also, don't forget to apply for ALTA x SALT Emerging Translator Mentorships by November 30th!
Check out all of our current opportunities and news here:
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