Valzhyna Mort, our 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize winner, is judging the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award this year. This $1,000 award recognizes the work of a U.S.-based translator for a poetry collection translated from any language into English and published in the previous calendar year. Established in 1976, it is …
A Contest for Translation Studies Students The 2024 prizewinners will be selected and announced in May 2024. 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 …
We are waiving our submission fee for Black and Indigenous writers. Please submit your translation pieces here. If you have questions concerning this policy, please email us. Translations submissions should be works translated into English from any other non-English language, and must include the original text along with the translated text. …
Cole Swensen is Translation Editor of Fence issue #42. Text in originating language is optional (though helpful/preferred). New translations of previously translated work are welcome. Poetry: please submit up to three poems and no more than 10 translated pages of poetry. Fiction and Prose: please limit your submission to no more than …
Stephen Mitchell has written or translated over twenty books. He has brought into English lucid, beautiful translations of Yehuda Amichai, Homer, Pablo Neruda, Rainer Maria Rilke, and such foundational texts as the Tao Te Ching, Gilgamesh, and Genesis, among others. In honor of Mitchell’s linguistic and poetic acumen, Green Linden Press will award the …