ALTA is going to the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) conference! The AWP24 conference will take place February 7-10, in Kansas City, Missouri.
Find ALTA at booth 822 in the bookfair. Join us there to talk translation, snag some ALTA swag, and participate in Bookfair Bingo, your chance to win a bundle of recently published titles in translation. Just fill out your Bingo card by visiting participating publishers at their booths, and you’ll be entered into a raffle to win a number of books in translation. Visit us at our booth to learn more!
As part of our literary partnership with AWP, ALTA is excited to sponsor five panels at AWP24:
- From the French but not from France: A Bilingual Reading of Francophone Poems
- Everyone is Multilingual: Inviting All Languages into the Writing Classroom
- Translation as Poetics
- Beyond the Limits of Loss: Translation as Generative Practice
- So You Want to Publish a Translation. A How-To Panel for Literary Magazines
Follow this link to find out more about these panels. And visit this page for a full list of translation-related events at AWP24.
Be sure to check out the Offsite Translator Meetup:
Date: Thursday, February 8
Time: 5:00-7:00pm
Place: Parlor KC, 0.7 miles from the Kansas City Convention Center
Join the American Literary Translators Association and Words Without Borders for a translator meetup! Food and drinks available for purchase. We’re thrilled to spend a few hours catching up with some of our favorite people in the world: translators! RSVPs appreciated on this page. Find this and other offsite events here.
Member Books on Display at AWP24: ALTA will happily display recent books translated by ALTA members at our booth (822). There is a maximum of 2 titles per member. ALTA staff cannot transport books to AWP, so members must bring them in person to our booth. Books are for display only; ALTA cannot handle any sales at AWP. Books must be dropped off no later than 10:00am on the first day of the bookfair (Wednesday, February 7) and picked up no later than 4:00pm on the last day (Saturday, February 10). Unclaimed books will be donated. We look forward to showing off your work!
We are looking forward to seeing you at AWP24. Be sure to stop by and say hello to us at booth 822!