American Literary Translators Association Travel Fellowships (incl. Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fellowship)

Funding: $1,000 stipend to attend and read at the annual ALTA conference. Who can apply: Open to individual 'emerging translators' (no book-length translation yet published or under contract) of any age/career stage, including current or prospective graduate students in translation, comparative literature, or MFA programs. One fellow is preferentially designated the Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fellow: an emerging translator of color or one working from an underrepresented diaspora/stateless language, same application, no separate form. Length: One-time award tied to conference attendance. Featured public reading at the conference; networking with the literary translation community. Field: Arts. Deadline: Mid-to-late March, annual (2026 cycle closed March 16, 2026; next cycle ~March 2027).