Deadline: 1 April 2025
The Art Omi: Writers is now seeking proposals for its Translation Lab, a 12-day special, intensive residency for four collaborating writer-translator teams in the fall of 2025.
Centered around an integral stage of refinement, this residency allows translators to dialogue with the writers about text-specific questions. This is a unique opportunity for collaboration, emphasizing translation as a means of cultural exchange.
The focused residency provides an integral stage of refinement, allowing translators to dialogue with the writers about text-specific questions. The Translation Lab emphasizes translation as a means towards cultural exchange. It serves as an essential community builder for English language translators who are working to increase the amount of international literature available to American readers, as it is currently estimated that less than three percent of all books published in the United States are translated works.
The residency is a rare and unique opportunity for writers and their translators to work together, considering that most writers never meet their translators in person. Art Omi will host four English language translators in New York’s Hudson Valley for 12 days. These translators will be invited along with the writers whose work is being translated into English.
Benefits
- All residencies are fully funded including: airfare, train transportation from New York City to the Art Omi campus, local car transportation, and a small honorarium.
Duration
- The dates for Translation Lab are September 4-15, 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
- Translators, writers, editors, or agents can submit Project Proposals.
- All text-based projects—fiction, nonfiction, theater, film, poetry, etc; are eligible.
Application Requirements
- Each proposal should be no more than three pages and provide the following information:
- Names of the translator and writer applying, as well as contact information (physical address, email, and phone) and the original language of the text. These details should be provided at the very top of the proposal.
- Brief biographical sketches for the translator and writer.
- A description of the proposed project, including details about how you envision structuring your working time together.
- Publishing status for the proposed project. (Projects that do not yet have a publisher are eligible.)
- In addition to the Project Proposal, please submit a Work Sample. If sample pages of the English translation for the proposed project are available, please include them (no more than 25 pages). If they are not yet available, please provide another translation work sample.
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