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) 
 
 Student MemberSHIP ($30) 
 
 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 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 ($200 - $375) 
Organizational Memberships are offered in a tiered Fee structure, based on operating budgets:
Tier 1: <$50,000, $200  |  Tier 2:  $50,000-500,000, $250  |  Tier 3: <$500,000, $375  
  • FRIEND MEMBERSHIPS FOR INDIVIDUALS WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION (Two for tiers 1 & 2; Three for tier 3)
  • EXCLUSIVE INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ALTA CONFERENCE BOOKFAIR (PUBLISHERS ONLY; FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED)
  • 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.