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Center for the Art of Translation (CAT)
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CAT champions literature in translation and global voices. We program events with authors and translators in the Bay Area and beyond, publish books @twolinespress.com, and run an education program (Poetry Inside Out). More at www.catranslation.org.
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Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org · Apr 14
The Center for the Art of Translation is excited to announce the public phase of our $17M capital campaign to build a permanent literary and cultural center in downtown San Francisco steps from the Transamerica Pyramid. 🌁
Graphic featuring a rendering of our new building at the corner of Leidesdorff and Commercial in downtown San Francisco. Text reads: Opening 2027, Help open our doors. Graphic featuring the text: After 26 years, the Center for the Art of Translation is opening a permanent public home in San Francisco--affirming that writers and translators are essential to civic life and inviting readers to encounter the world and each other with curiosity and understanding.
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Join us at Villa Albertine in New York City, Sept. 25 at 3 pm ET, for a conversation with translators Allison Markin Powell and Katrine Øgaard Jensen in led by Han Zhang on how to support the literary translation ecosystem.

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Graphic featuring the event The New Landscape of Literary Translation with Allison Markin Powell and Katrine Øgaard Jensen in conversation with Han Zhang, Sept. 25 at 3pm ET at Villa Albertine in New York City.
September 16, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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📣 We're hiring our first People & Culture Director (PCD), a new full-time, hybrid role working from our San Francisco office 2-3 days/week that will shape the practices and culture of our organization. +
Graphic in orange background announcing the new People & Culture job opportunity at the Center for the Art of Translation.
September 10, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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Open calls for submissions, mentorship, residency and more. Check out the latest literary translation news and opportunities. Do you have exciting translation news to share? DM or tag us, we'd love to hear from you! buff.ly/5KhCEsq
September 2026 Translation News Roundup - CAT Center
Our monthly roundup of literary translation news and opportunities.
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September 9, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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Get ready for the panel "A Radical Proposal: Literary Translators as Workers" at the Day of Translation by watching "Union," a documentary about the formation of the Amazon Labor Union and its attempt to unionize an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island +
September 8, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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The founders of Turkoslavia curated a feature in @wwborders.bsky.social on the forms of matrilineal inheritance, with stories translated by Mirgul Kali, Ena Selimović & Sabrina Jaszi, including a translation of Turkoslavia contributors Marina Gudelj & Leyla Shukurli. +
September 7, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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“All I know is for me translation and disability are inextricable and have been since the beginning,” @amandasarasien.bsky.social writes in
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September 4, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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New titles in translation featured in the Asymptote Journal. See the full list of books from Egypt, Argentina, Spain, France, India, Jordan, Palestine, and Netherlands. buff.ly/0esjqDu
What’s New in Translation: August 2026 - Asymptote Blog
This month, our reviewers introduce eight titles that range from political thought to chimeric fictions.
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September 4, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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Congratulations to @jacqlyy.bsky.social and Hon Lai Chu! MENDING BODIES is on the longlist for ALTA's National Translation Award in Prose! 🪡🧵
September 3, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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"A memorable exchange regarding the SPLENDOR poems was when we decided on the pronoun 'it' for the human being observed from a jellyfish’s perspective," Eunice Lee reflects on her translations featured in SPLENDOR, alongside Olivia Lasky & Kit Maude. Read the interview in full: buff.ly/zvLQ9Jr
Splendor: An interview with translators Olivia Lasky, Kit Maude, & Eunice Lee
With a luminous introduction by Rickey Laurentiis, the new Calico title presents five poets with previously unpublished translations from Argentina, Denmark, Korea, Norway, and Quebec.
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September 3, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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Leading up to the Day of Translation on Sep. 24 at The Center for Fiction, our panelists have put together a multimedia list filled with articles, books, and videos to introduce the panel’s core themes. + buff.ly/84Nstgj
Day of Translation: Recommended Reading & Watching List
This year’s program celebrates the deeply human elements of the art of translation, featuring three free provocative panels, insightful conversations, a featured keynote by Emily Wilson, and a community afterparty.
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September 1, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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#SealeyChallenge 30/31

Splendor: Trans Poets by 5 poets, & translators, & Intro by @rckylrnts.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️🤍

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@catranslation.org Calico series #14 💜

I got this gorgeous brand new book (plus goodies! See Image 4) in the mail b/c …
Book sits on blue & white patterned cloth (my pillow case). Cover image is a square photograph of two iridescent jellyfish (white/translucent, pink, & pale blue) on black: 1 heading up & 1 heading down. White text in a central black circle over the space between the 2 jellies reads: TRANS POETS The margins around the photo are ombré pink-to-purple, left to right. In the larger margin below the photo, inside a black-line-bordered box, in black text: SPLENDOR A paragraph shown: The book you hold in your hands participates in this shift of the light, even if it does not exclusively spell out the mechanics of that change or remain solely & expensively interested in it. These poets assume a fuller breadth. Assembled here, these poets represent our Globe, one undergoing a series of ongoing revolutions not just in identity, but in Ways of Being—of Being with Each Other; that is, in our relations and, always, in power. Those of us Trans Beings, or our allies, understand the exponential rate of Time's arrow, and welcome the world steadily arriving by way of that Time, and we are in love with it. You get the feeling reading these poems that each poet adores their glorious change, whether that change is seen on the surface or sits more privately, nestled deep in the Soul's core. These poems assert we have always been who we are. Those of us Trans Beings recognize the world that is today, as if another bolt of lightning has in fact arrived, straight from God, forcing us all to be whole, to be intact and complete. So that we can be our own soulmates. [added blue text] End of the introduction "On (Trans) Ways of Being" by Rickey Laurentiis in Splendor: Trans Poets (p 19) Poem on p 75 of Splendor: Trans Poets shown. An almost-see-through sticker on the window It looks like stained glass breaks the light the same way Take a big sip of water Tilt your head from side to side It really feels like the ocean in your mouth The same cool weight as holding movement between your hands [Added blue text] From The Ocean in Your Mouth by Luka Holmegaard, translated from Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russel Swag collection shown. The main prize is a canvas tote bag: it’s emblazoned with a black, white, & orange stylized San Francisco, with about 16 cats, most with speech bubbles saying “meow” in diverse languages 😻 On & around the bag are: a Two Lines Press (fluorescent green) bookmark & (orange) sticker, a (yellow) TBW Books matchbook that says “Do your part… BUY MORE BOOKS!!!! say yes to truth and NO to COWARD SCUM,” a pink sticker reading (in white & black) READ TRANS POETS, an orange coozy stating “[in white] I’m looking at the sea, [in black] it’s all I do.” & a sliver of a postcard from The Center for the Art of Translation featuring Lauren Tamaki’s illustration. Scenes of someone reading in City Lights (over the word “Booksellers”), 2 people walking toward the Chinatown gate, & a dressed up person singing under flowers (with “Yerba Buena) are visible.
September 1, 2026 at 2:06 AM
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Bay Area! Join us for a hometown celebration of SPLENDOR: Trans Poets at Green Apple Books on the Park on Thursday, September 17th! Hope to see you there👋🪼 RSVP for this free event and find all the details here: greenapplebooks.com/event/2026-0...
August 27, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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🗣️ Applications are open for the @bcltuea.bsky.social Translator-in-Residence, to run from Feb. 1 to May 31, 2027. A stipend of £3,200.00 (~$4,300) is available as compensation for each residency. The deadline to apply is Nov. 2. Learn more: www.bclt.org.uk/translators-...
Translators in Residence
University of East Anglia
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August 28, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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📣 FYI! 📣
August 25, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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📣 @newenglandreview.bsky.social is assembling a folio on new writing from Japan in English translation guest edited by Stephen Snyder and Allison Markin Powell. They're looking for flash fiction, zuihitsu, short essays, and poetry. The deadline is Nov. 30. Learn more: buff.ly/gdH1gm1
New England Review - New Japanese Literature in Translation
New England Review is assembling a folio on new writing from Japan, in English translation, guest edited by Stephen Snyder and Allison Markin Powell. We are looking for flash fiction, zuihitsu, short…
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August 21, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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📣 Last day to apply for our two in-person positions in San Francisco! +
Opportunities at CAT - CAT Center
The Center for the Art of Translation is currently hiring for two in-person San Francisco Bay Area positions: a Press Administrator for our book publisher Two
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August 21, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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We’re excited to introduce "Translating Words, Creating Worlds: Poetry Inside Out as Critical Literacy and Translanguaging Pedagogy in K-12 Classrooms" (@myersedpress.bsky.social) +
Book cover of Translating Words, Creating Worlds Orange background graphic featuring a quote by Cindy Ballenger, Author of Teaching is Inquiry: Observation and Reflection as the Heart of Practice. The quote reads: This book is sorely needed today where there is less and less time for learning with and from one's students.
August 20, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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“The stories are all fantastic, well-paced, and fiercely unique from one to the next, composed carefully and deftly by Greek writer, author, and documentarian Mata Kastrisiou”
THE BLACK BOX made @catranslation.org’s Fall 2026 preview!

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Fall 2026 Lit in Translation Preview - CAT Center
From a Norwegian novel exploring language and isolation to a stunning new translation of a Brazilian masterpiece, our Fall 2026 Lit in Translation Preview is
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August 18, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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🌊 TODAY in San Francisco! Join us and @twolinespress.com at the @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social for a conversation with author of SEA NOW Eva Meijer, translator @anne-t-melo.bsky.social and Gregory Hom at the SFPL Main Library's Koret Auditorium at 6pm: buff.ly/gGR7rLg
SFPL On the Same Page presents Sea Now - CAT Center
As part of San Francisco Public Library's Everybody's Climate programming, Sea Now is the July-August selection for their bi-monthly featured book program, On
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August 18, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is accepting submissions for its translation prize. The work must be published within the last 2 years. The translation must be from Arabic to any language or from any language to Arabic. Submissions are free and the deadline is Sep 1. Learn more: buff.ly/0AMz7x0
Translation
Submission and Entry Rules
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August 14, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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A book of poems by trans poets called “splendor,” there are two jellyfish on a black background on its pink cover. Next to the book is a pink sticker that says “read trans poets” and a pink beer coozy with a calico logo on it
August 14, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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🗣️ One week left to apply for our two in-person positions in San Francisco! +
Opportunities at CAT - CAT Center
The Center for the Art of Translation is currently hiring for two in-person San Francisco Bay Area positions: a Press Administrator for our book publisher Two
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August 14, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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Looking for your next read? 📚️ Our Fall 2026 Lit in Translation Preview is packed with unmissable titles recommended by indie booksellers @emilytarr.bsky.social from @thankyoubooks.bsky.social, Beatriz Quiroz García from Skylight Books & Stephen Krause, from Alienated Majesty Books. buff.ly/QpaWmDR
Fall 2026 Lit in Translation Preview
From a Norwegian novel exploring language and isolation to a stunning new translation of a Brazilian masterpiece, our Fall 2026 Lit in Translation Preview is packed with unmissable titles recommended by indie booksellers.
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August 13, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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🌊 Tuesday, Aug. 18 in San Francisco! Author of SEA NOW Eva Meijer and translator @anne-t-melo.bsky.social will be in conversation with Gregory Hom, Program Manager of the @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social at SFPL Main Library's Koret Auditorium. Join us & @twolinespress.com at 6pm: buff.ly/gGR7rLg
SFPL On the Same Page presents Sea Now - CAT Center
As part of San Francisco Public Library's Everybody's Climate programming, Sea Now is the July-August selection for their bi-monthly featured book program, On
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August 11, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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🔖 Job openings, Day of Translation lineup, submissions for fellowship and more. Check out the latest literary translation news and opportunities. Do you have exciting translation news to share? DM or tag us, we'd love to hear from you!
August 2026 Translation News Roundup
Our monthly roundup of literary translation news and opportunities.
www.catranslation.org
August 7, 2026 at 3:30 PM