Congratulations to SALT mentee Sahana Hegde for the publication of her translation from Kannada in Hyphen! Read the story here:

We are thrilled to announce Pakistani translator and writer Haider Shahbaz as Wasafiri's newest International Translator in Residence in partnership with @saltatchicago.bsky.social! buff.ly/Ow2dXtl

Attention aspiring translators of South Asian languages! The National Centre for Writing emerging translator mentorships are open for applications until August 24th. Check the link below for more information!

Emerging Translator Mentorships

The Emerging Translator Mentorships scheme matches experienced translators with emerging translators for a six-month period during which they work together on practical translation projects, developing their craft through working on a chosen text or texts.

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Congratulations to former SALT mentee Rohee Dholakia for her recently published translations from the Gujarati of Akha Bhagat in The Antonym Online!

Akhana Chhappa

Translated by Rohee Dholakia

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What shapes can solidarities take in these times we live in? Join Wasafiri's editor and publishing director, @sanagoyal.bsky.social, for a conversation on connection and public and private revolutions at Edinburgh International Book Festival this summer. buff.ly/V33UI9N

Translators! Two Lines Press is now open for not one, but TWO submission opportunities this summer! We're looking for both general submissions and submissions for a new Calico featuring poetry and flash fiction about sex from June 15 to August 2! www.twolinespress.com/submissions

Submit Your Work to Two Lines Press

View our submission guidelines for literary translations. We seek innovative, world-class fiction and poetry from around the globe.

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Thank you for giving home to this excerpt @wwborders.bsky.social ! Thanks for being patient with me Padma Viswanathan. Thanks also to @kalyanasc.bsky.social and @saltatchicago.bsky.social for supporting my translation of this novel Saigon Puducherry by Nagarathinam Krishna!

Words Without Borders & WWB Campus@wwborders.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Nagarathinam Krishna’s "Vedavalli, Saigon" (tr. Subhashree Beeman), a poignant monologue about an Indian woman’s exile in Vietnam, received a Special Jury Mention in the 2025 Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation. Read the story on WWB: buff.ly/SaLZCed

Calling all translators and publishers of South Asian literature! These two grant deadlines are coming up fast. Find more info here: www.englishpen.org/t...

We’re thrilled to announce the winning titles for PEN Presents x SALT, an iteration of English PEN's ongoing #PENPresents award for sample translations in partnership with @saltatchicago.bsky.social. Discover the winners and read the samples ⤵️ www.englishpen.org/posts/news/w...

Winners announced for PEN Presents x SALT - English PEN

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Congratulations to the winners of PEN Presents x SALT! www.englishpen.org/p...

Chicago friends! Join us on April 27th!

PEN translation grants x SALT are NOW OPEN for submissions! Publishers outside of the UK are eligible to apply!

Current translation grant opportunities - English PEN

Our grants for translated literature support the movement of words and ideas across national and linguistic borders, championing bibliodiversity and reflecting the PEN Charter’s declaration that "literature knows no frontiers, and must remain a common currency among people".

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Our translation grants – #PENTranslates for publishers, including PEN Translates x SALT, and #PENPresents x SALT for translators – are NOW OPEN for submissions! Find out more, apply & share ⤵️ www.englishpen.org/translation/...

Current translation grant opportunities - English PEN

Our grants for translated literature support the movement of words and ideas across national and linguistic borders, championing bibliodiversity and reflecting the PEN Charter’s declaration that

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Do you have a translation project in need of a publisher? Check out the new David Bellos Translation Prize! janklowandnesbit.co....

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.

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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:

How to Be or Not Be a Translator: Workshop Series by Deepa Bhasthi

Attend four curated online writing workshops tutored by our inaugural International Translator in Residence, Deepa Bhasthi.

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SALT Travel Grants for translators are now OPEN! Apply by March 9th! salt.humanities.uchi...

Looking forward to talking craft with some incredible people. Please join us if you can!

Armory Square Prize@armorysqprize.bsky.social · 6mo ago

How do you win a translation prize—and what happens when you do? 2024 winner @sanarch.bsky.social will discuss her process and craft in partnership with @himalsouthasian.bsky.social and @openletterbooks.bsky.social on February 16. RSVP to join us at bit.ly/ASprizemasterclass!

🎉🎉🎉 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. #xl8 #translation #worldkidlit #kidlit

American Literary Translators Association@littranslate.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🎉 The American Literary Translators Association is delighted to introduce you to the 2026 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program mentees! There are 14 mentees taking part in 13 mentorships in 2026. Learn all about the mentorships and this year's stellar mentees here: buff.ly/vDXkws5

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! www.englishpen.org/p...

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 www.andotherstories.org/the-roof-ben...

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: www.uea.ac.uk/groups...

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). buff.ly/b0hubDL

🎉 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. bcla.org/prizes-award...

“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:

Deepa Bhasthi on translation, beyond the world of Heart Lamp

Deepa Bhasthi on translation, beyond the world of Heart Lamp

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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 buff.ly/yibsATf

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: worldliteraturetoday.org/translation-...