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:
§&²Ô²ú²õ±è; Bangla, with mentor Shabnam Nadiya
§&²Ô²ú²õ±è; Contemporary Literature from Québec, with mentor Madeleine Stratford
§&²Ô²ú²õ±è; Gujarati, with mentor Jenny Bhatt
§&²Ô²ú²õ±è; Hindi, with mentor Daisy Rockwell
§&²Ô²ú²õ±è; Poetry from Hong Kong, with mentor May Huang
§&²Ô²ú²õ±è; Prose from Hong Kong, with mentor Jennifer Feeley
§&²Ô²ú²õ±è; Japanese, with mentor Takami Nieda
§&²Ô²ú²õ±è; Kannada, with mentor Srinath Perur
§&²Ô²ú²õ±è; Kashmiri, with mentor Kalpana Raina
§&²Ô²ú²õ±è; Korean poetry, with mentor Jack Jung
§&²Ô²ú²õ±è; Korean prose, with mentor Janet Hong
§&²Ô²ú²õ±è; Persian, with mentor poupeh missaghi
§&²Ô²ú²õ±è; Polish, with mentor Bill Johnston
§&²Ô²ú²õ±è; Premodern, Classical, or Early Modern Literature from a South Asian language, with mentor Arshia Sattar
§&²Ô²ú²õ±è; Swedish, with mentor Rachel Willson-Broyles
§&²Ô²ú²õ±è; Literature from Taiwan, with mentor Lin King
§&²Ô²ú²õ±è; Telugu, with mentor Afsar Mohammad
§&²Ô²ú²õ±è; 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