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The Week in Translation

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what: Inaugural “Us & Them” reading, featuring writers who are also translators and translators who are also writers, reading both translations and work written originally in English. 
Poetry by Todd Portnowitz and his translations of Pierluigi Cappello (Italy); poetry by Laura Marris and her translations of Paol Keineg (Brittany); fiction by Sam Bett and his translations of Yukio Mishima (Japan); poetry by Eloisa Amezcua and her translations of Mario Meléndez (Chile); poetry by Christian Gullette and his translations of Jonas Modig (Sweden); and fiction by Allison Grimaldi-Donahue and her translations of Davide Orecchio (Italian). 
when: Friday, July 17, 8pm
where: Molasses Books, 770 Hart St., Brooklyn
more info: http://ow.ly/PxVGm

APPLY

what: Writers OMI at Ledig House, Fall 2015 Translation Lab: 12-day residency for five teams of writers & translators this fall
when: November 10-21, 2015
where: OMI International Arts Center, Ghent, NY
application deadline: July 15, 2015
more info: http://ow.ly/JvRYv
 
SUBMIT
what: Gulf Coast Magazine's Prize in Translation (this year's contest is open to prose, both fiction and non-fiction).
submission deadline: August 31, 2015
more info: http://ow.ly/OkevW
what: Transom magazine is currently open for unsolicited submissions of translations.
submission deadline: accepted yearround
more info: http://ow.ly/OUdRi
English

GO

what: Inaugural “Us & Them” reading, featuring writers who are also translators and translators who are also writers, reading both translations and work written originally in English. 
Poetry by Todd Portnowitz and his translations of Pierluigi Cappello (Italy); poetry by Laura Marris and her translations of Paol Keineg (Brittany); fiction by Sam Bett and his translations of Yukio Mishima (Japan); poetry by Eloisa Amezcua and her translations of Mario Meléndez (Chile); poetry by Christian Gullette and his translations of Jonas Modig (Sweden); and fiction by Allison Grimaldi-Donahue and her translations of Davide Orecchio (Italian). 
when: Friday, July 17, 8pm
where: Molasses Books, 770 Hart St., Brooklyn
more info: http://ow.ly/PxVGm

APPLY

what: Writers OMI at Ledig House, Fall 2015 Translation Lab: 12-day residency for five teams of writers & translators this fall
when: November 10-21, 2015
where: OMI International Arts Center, Ghent, NY
application deadline: July 15, 2015
more info: http://ow.ly/JvRYv
 
SUBMIT
what: Gulf Coast Magazine's Prize in Translation (this year's contest is open to prose, both fiction and non-fiction).
submission deadline: August 31, 2015
more info: http://ow.ly/OkevW
what: Transom magazine is currently open for unsolicited submissions of translations.
submission deadline: accepted yearround
more info: http://ow.ly/OUdRi

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