Applications for the 2019 Translation Lab are currently open. Art Omi Writers is now seeking proposals for Translation Lab 2019. Further, it is a 12-day special, intensive residency for four collaborating writer-translator teams in the fall of 2019. Art Omi Writers will host four English language translators in New York‘s Hudson Valley for 12 days. Further,  These translators will be invited along with the writers whose work is being translated into English. All text-based projects—fiction, nonfiction, theater, film, poetry, etc.—are eligible. As this year’s ALTA conference is taking place in nearby Rochester during the residency period, Art Omi and ALTA are delighted to announce a partnership to include Translation Lab participants in the conference programming.

Moreover, This focused residency will provide an integral stage of refinement, allowing translators to dialogue with the writers about text-specific questions. Further, It will also serve as an essential community-builder for English-language translators who are working to increase the amount of international literature available to English-language readers.

Benefit

• All residencies get full fund including
• airfare,
• train transportation from New York City to the Art Omi campus, and
• local car transportation.

Eligibility

• All text-based projects—fiction, nonfiction, theater, film, poetry, etc.—are eligible.
• Translators, writers, editors, and agents can submit proposals.
• Projects that do not yet have a publisher are eligible.

Application process

• Names of the translator and writer applying, as well as contact information (physical address, email, and phone) and the original language of the text.
• Further, 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.
• Also, Publishing status for the proposed project (projects that do not yet have a publisher are eligible)
• If sample pages of the English translation are also, available you may include them (no more than 25 pages) however, they are not important to have.