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Harold Morton Landon Translation Award Deadline

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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 …

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World Literature Today Student Translation Prize

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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 …

$10

The Stephen Mitchell Prize for Translation: Submission Deadline

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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 …

$15 – $35

Black Lawrence Press: Translations from German & French

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Black Lawrence Press publishes translations from German and French. Submit translations to our open reading period here. All manuscripts should include a title page (including your name and contact info), table of contents, and when appropriate, an acknowledgments page. Manuscripts should be paginated and formatted in an easy-to-read font such …

$14

Hayden’s Ferry Review: Issue 74

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Hayden’s Ferry Review is open for translation and art for our print journal year-round. Submissions in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for issue 74 are open from November 1-30 or until submissions caps are met. We’ll also open 50 free submissions for underrepresented writers in each genre - see further guidelines below! …

$3