Membership

Membership

ALTA is a nonprofit arts membership association that provides resources, community, and professional affiliation to its members: individual translators, academic institutions, presses, and others working in literary translation. 

Membership with ALTA provides access to our community and resources, including networking, and access to members-only discussion groups and resource databases. Wherever you are in the world, you can access our online community and participate in engaging, exciting conversations about literature and translation.

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Translator MemberSHIP ($125) 
  • Member’s discount on registration for our annual conference
  • Members discount on our multilingual translation workshops and other virtual programming
  • Ability to propose panels, roundtables, and workshops for the annual ALTA conference
  • Priority selection for annual conference programming, including the Annual Alexis Levitin Bilingual Reading Series
  • Ability to participate in free Editor-Translator Pitch Sessions, held twice annually
  • Option to participate in the annual ALTA Membership Meeting
  • Ability to submit panel proposals for ALTA-sponsored sessions at the annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference (AWP)
  • A listing in our Directory of Members
  • Print and digital subscription to Translation Review
  • Access to our members-only newsletter, including a monthly listing of translation grant, prize, and residency opportunities
  • Ability to publicize your translation announcements on our website and in our newsletter
  • Access to members-only content on our website and the ALTAlk listserv (request membership to the ALTAlk listserv here)
  • Voting privileges (membership must be active before the start of elections, by August 8 annually)
 
 Student MemberSHIP ($30) 
  • Member’s discount on registration for our annual conference
  • Members discount on our multilingual translation workshops and other virtual programming
  • Ability to propose panels, roundtables, and workshops for the annual ALTA conference
  • Priority selection for annual conference programming, including the Annual Alexis Levitin Bilingual Reading Series
  • Ability to participate in free Editor-Translator Pitch Sessions, held twice annually
  • Option to participate in the annual ALTA Membership Meeting
  • Ability to submit panel proposals for ALTA-sponsored sessions at the annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference (AWP)
  • A listing in our Directory of Members
  • Print and digital subscription to Translation Review
  • Access to our members-only newsletter, including a monthly listing of translation grant, prize, and residency opportunities
  • Ability to publicize your translation announcements on our website and in our newsletter
  • Access to members-only content on our website and the ALTAlk listserv (request membership to the ALTAlk listserv here)
  • Voting privileges (membership must be active before the start of elections, by August 8 annually)
 
 Friend (Non-Translator) MemberSHIP ($75) 
  • Member’s discount on registration for our annual conference
  • Members discount on our multilingual translation workshops and other virtual programming
  • Ability to propose panels, roundtables, and workshops for the annual ALTA conference
  • Priority selection for annual conference programming, including the Annual Alexis Levitin Bilingual Reading Series
  • Ability to participate in free Editor-Translator Pitch Sessions, held twice annually
  • Access to our members-only newsletter, including a monthly listing of translation grant, prize, and residency opportunities
  • Access to members-only content on our website and the ALTAlk listserv (request membership to the ALTAlk listserv here)
  • Voting privileges (membership must be active before the start of elections, by August 8 annually)
 
 Organizational Membership ($250) 
  •  two Friend memberships for individuals within the organization
  • Priority requesting of books for ALTA annual conference bookfair
  • Priority invitations to participate in ALTA-sponsored events at AWP and other conferences (including the popular Bookfair Bingo)
  • Invitations to submit content to be featured on the ALTA webpage, blog, and other social media outlets
  • Invitations to display materials at the ALTA booth at AWP
  • Opportunities to announce news to ALTA members

For more information about organizational membership, please send us an email at sophia@literarytranslators.org.

For University of Arizona memberships with ALTA, please write to us at info@literarytranslators.org.