August 2026 Translation News Roundup

Our monthly roundup of literary translation news and opportunities.

We’re hiring for two new in-person positions in San Francisco: Two Lines Press is hiring a full-time Press Administrator to support the administration of Two Lines Press, including maintaining the submissions management system, customer service and membership coordination, mailing and fulfillment, and responding to queries in a timely manner. The Center for the Art of Translation is seeking an experienced and driven customer service professional to serve as the Bookstore & Visitor Services Manager. This new staff position will run the daily operations of CAT’s new brick-and-mortar bookstore and event space in downtown San Francisco, estimated to open in December 2026. Applications for both positions will be open until 5 PM PDT, August 21, 2026. See full details and apply here.

The Center for the Art of Translation presents the seventh annual Day of Translation in partnership with The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn! This day of conversations about language and literature features three free, provocative panels on translation, broadly defined, from 1 to 6 PM, and culminates in a 7 PM ticketed keynote by translator Emily Wilson. More info & registration link here.

Cardboard House Press is open for full-length poetry manuscripts in translation(opens in a new tab). The deadline is August 16, 2026.

Applications are open for the 2027 Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship in Literary Translation. The fellow will be in residence at the British Centre for Literary Translation for 8 weeks, from January 25 to March 20, 2027. Deadline: September 6, 2026. Learn more(opens in a new tab).

Translator magazine(opens in a new tab) is looking for great reportage of 2,000–6,000 words (long-form journalism, or other narrative nonfiction, published in a language other than English) for their upcoming issue. You can send your pitch to submissions@translatormag.co(opens in a new tab). Selections for Issue 5 should be finalized this week, but they take suggestions of articles for online and for future magazine issues on a rolling basis. See guidelines and learn more here(opens in a new tab).

English PEN have announced their lineup for the International Translation Day (ITD)(opens in a new tab), featuring conversations between translators and their allies, in which three translators speak to figures from bookselling, publishing, and online influence, asking what we need from each other in the coming years. The event is hosted in person at Brixton Library, London, on September 30. English PEN also offers a series of workshops online, and in person in London and Norwich, throughout September as part of their programming for ITD 2026.

“I find myself really drawn to short stories that slip into horror, so I have Elvira Navarro’s Blood is Dripping onto the Courtyard on my radar. From a young couple’s washing machine filling with blood to a man who saves animals who have been hit on the highway, turning his home into a peculiar zoo, Navarro’s collection is all about the nightmares that emerge when our reality slips away into surrealism. Sign me up!” —Editor-In-Chief Michael Welch in the The Chicago Review of Books(opens in a new tab)

“White Nights is a book about despair that isn’t despairing. Reading it feels like taking a journey along a smooth and well-lit path through a dark forest.” Read Noah Slaughter’s review of White Nights in Full Stop(opens in a new tab).

“Literary translations are investments in cultural infrastructure, a public good that can be applied to all publishing markets, no matter the language territory,” Olivia Snaije writes in her article “In Praise of the Translators Who Transport Us Across the Globe” in Publishing Perspectives(opens in a new tab).

“I suppose the poetic passages were where I had the chance to be particularly bold.” Anne Thompson Melo on translating Sea Now, 2024 winner of Two Lines Press’s and Peirene Press’s Stevns Translation Prize(opens in a new tab). Read the interview in full here.

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Are you an organization, venue, funder, publication, educational program, residency, or other group that offers opportunities to literary translators? We are always on the lookout for literary translation news and opportunities to share with our audience. Please reach out to our Engagement Editor, Alana Rodrigues(opens in a new tab), via email or message us on Bluesky(opens in a new tab) or Instagram(opens in a new tab) with the information you’d like us to consider sharing. We love to amplify work that supports the wider literary translation community.