First Look Publishers

First Look Publishers

ALTA's mentees have the option to take part in our "First Look" program, which allows participating publishers to be the first to read excerpts of the translations mentees have worked on throughout their mentorship period, for possible publication. In 2020, for example, 11 poems and 3 short stories translated by our mentees were immediately selected for publication by 6 different literary journals!

We are grateful to the editors of the following presses and journals, who support literary translation and emerging literary translators by reading our mentees' excerpts:

Adroit Journal

American Chordata

Anomaly

Archipelago Books

Black Ocean

Black Sun Lit

Chicago Review

Circumference Magazine

Columbia Journal

Coffee House Press

The Common

Denver Quarterly

The Georgia Review

Gulf Coast

The Kenyon Review

The Literary Review

Litmus Press

The Massachusetts Review

Modern Poetry in Translation

The Northwest Review

The Offing

On the Seawall

The Southern Review

Tupelo Quarterly

Turtle Point Press

Two Lines Press

Waxwing

Words Without Borders

World Literature Today


Publishers, to be added to this list and receive translation excerpts at the end of each mentorship program year, please contact Program Manager Kelsi Vanada at kelsi@literarytranslators.org.