Opportunity for Emerging Translators: 2025 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program
I'm writing from the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) to send a friendly notice that might be of interest to your communities about the 2025 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program, which is until November 30 (that's 1 month from today)! If you would be willing to share this announcement with your communities, we would be most grateful.
The is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator on a project selected by the emerging translator. The mentorship duration is one year. The emerging translator is expected to choose a project that can be completed in that time, and they will only be advised on that particular project. The program is offered at no cost to the emerging translator, and applicants needn't be based in the US to apply for the program.
The following 18 mentorships are available in 2025:
搂&苍产蝉辫; Bangla, with mentor Shabnam Nadiya
搂&苍产蝉辫; Contemporary Literature from Qu茅bec, with mentor Madeleine Stratford
搂&苍产蝉辫; Gujarati, with mentor Jenny Bhatt
搂&苍产蝉辫; Hindi, with mentor Daisy Rockwell
搂&苍产蝉辫; Poetry from Hong Kong, with mentor May Huang
搂&苍产蝉辫; Prose from Hong Kong, with mentor Jennifer Feeley
搂&苍产蝉辫; Japanese, with mentor Takami Nieda
搂&苍产蝉辫; Kannada, with mentor Srinath Perur
搂&苍产蝉辫; Kashmiri, with mentor Kalpana Raina
搂&苍产蝉辫; Korean poetry, with mentor Jack Jung
搂&苍产蝉辫; Korean prose, with mentor Janet Hong
搂&苍产蝉辫; Persian, with mentor poupeh missaghi
搂&苍产蝉辫; Polish, with mentor Bill Johnston
搂&苍产蝉辫; Premodern, Classical, or Early Modern Literature from a South Asian language, with mentor Arshia Sattar
搂&苍产蝉辫; Swedish, with mentor Rachel Willson-Broyles
搂&苍产蝉辫; Literature from Taiwan, with mentor Lin King
搂&苍产蝉辫; Telugu, with mentor Afsar Mohammad
搂&苍产蝉辫; Urdu, with mentor Sana R. Chaudhry
Since its inception, the program has supported 71 translators working from 25 languages. For more information on how to apply, and for more information about the program, please , and . Applications must be submitted via by 11:59pm PT on November 30.
If you have questions, please