Translation Grants Available from the Yiddish Book Center

This just in from the Yiddish Book Center:

The Yiddish Book Center will award two grants of $1,000 each for the translation into English of a Yiddish text, from any genre. According to Aaron Lansky, president and founder of the Yiddish Book Center, “less than 2% of Yiddish titles have been translated into English. Most of Yiddish literature is still inaccessible to English readers. The only answer is to train and mobilize a new generation of translators.”

The grant offering is part of a larger translation program at the Yiddish Book Center, including a translation conference, workshops, and plans for new web-based resources.

Application deadline is June 1. To learn more and apply:
http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/translation-grant-program

(I’m looking forward to hearing more about the “larger translation program”!)

Monday Morning Markets/Jobs/Opportunities for Writers

  • “Established in 1978, Loom Press publishes books by emerging writers and artists from the New England area. In addition to poetry, Loom Press titles range from documentary photography to cultural studies….Authors typically receive up to 30 copies of the finished book and standard royalties for trade paperback books.”
  • Attention, practicing writers in Maine: “The Individual Artist Fellowships reward artistic excellence, advance the careers of Maine artists and promote public awareness regarding the eminence of the creative sector in Maine.” Application deadline for Literary Arts fellowships is May 13, 2011. No application fee indicated. Fellowships confer $13,000.
  • Dixie State College (Utah) is advertising a faculty position in English-Creative Writing. “Responsibilities: Develop and teach courses in area of creative writing. Supervise students in the creation of department publications as assigned. Teach composition courses and literature courses as needed. Serve on college and departmental committees as assigned. Attend department, division, and faculty meetings; work with other faculty in program management; and adhere to college policies. Should be technology literate and/or willing to become certified and teach online or blended courses.”
  • The Djerassi Resident Artists Program (Calif.) seeks an Executive Director, Gettysburg College (Pa.) is looking for an Assistant Director of Annual Giving Communications, and Harvard University Press (Mass.) is advertising for a part-time Writer/Editor who will “produce descriptive copy for approximately 200 frontlist books that HUP publishes each year.” Note that for the HUP job: “The Press prefers an in-house copywriter but will consider highly qualified candidates who wish to work remotely, with multiple visits to the Press as required in the critical months of July-August and January-February.”
  • I’m still away today (long weekend in my much-missed Massachusetts). So please accept my apologies for the relative brevity of today’s market/job/opportunity listings. If you haven’t yet seen the May Practicing Writer newsletter, which went out to subscribers late last week, you’ll find plenty more (paying) calls for submission and no-fee competitions listed within.
  • Friday Find: “Looking Backward: Third-Generation Fiction Writers and the Holocaust”

    Today’s a very busy day. There’s a royal wedding, a shuttle launch, and, for me, a departure for Boston, where I’ll be leading a session tomorrow at Grub Street’s Muse and the Marketplace conference.

    This weekend also brings Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day. Which makes it all the more important for me to share with you my latest essay-review for Fiction Writers Review, “Looking Backward: Third-Generation Fiction Writers and the Holocaust.”

    Have a good weekend, and see you back here next week.

    Notes from Around the Web: Literary Links for Shabbat

  • Having recently read Hans Keilson’s Comedy in a Minor Key (trans. Damion Searls), I appreciated this profile of the almost-101-year-old author
  • As we conclude National Poetry Month, let’s take a moment to celebrate that remarkable poet from the past, Hannah Senesh. as well as a newer, current poetic voice: that of Yehoshua November.
  • Poet and editor Jill Bialosky is now also the author of a memoir, about her sister’s 1990 suicide, and in this interview she discusses Jewish mourning rituals–and Judaism’s complicated relationship with suicide.
  • Yom Hashoah begins at sundown on Sunday, May 1, and that makes me it seem especially important to share with you today my latest essay-review for Fiction Writers Review: “Looking Backward: Third-Generation Fiction Writers and the Holocaust.”
  • On my other blog, this week’s “post-publication post” provides some background on the real-life inspiration for one of the characters readers are meeting in my short-story collection, Quiet Americans.
  • Shabbat shalom.