Applications for ALTA's Travel Fellowship Program are accepted annually from January to March. Check back for exact dates.

All applications for fellowships are accepted through our online form and must include:

• A cover letter explaining your interest in sharing your work with the ALTA community
• Your current CV (List all translation credits, including forthcoming works under contract.
• 8 to 10 pages of translated work (single-spaced for poetry or double-spaced for prose) along with the corresponding original language text in one document.)

Please note: Applicants for the Jansen Fellowship should apply using the online ALTA Travel Fellowship application, and check the Jansen Fellowship eligibility box in the application form.

Travel Fellowship Program

• For the ALTA Travel Fellowships, an emerging translator is someone who does not yet have a book-length work of translation published or under contract. ALTA considers chapbooks to be book-length publications for the Travel Fellowships. The ALTA Travel Fellowships are open to individual translators (not teams of co-translators).
• We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, regardless of ethnicity, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, ability status, educational level or professional experience, including those with prior training or experience in non-literary translation; those who are speakers of Indigenous languages; and those who are heritage speakers of languages other than English. While the Travel Fellowships are open to all applicants, we especially encourage applications from translators of color, translators with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ translators.
• Each year, The Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fellowship is preferentially awarded to one emerging translator of color or a translator working from an underrepresented diaspora or stateless language. 
• Please note: that translators currently participating in ALTA's Emerging Translator Mentorship Program are not eligible to apply for a Travel Fellowship. Previous years' Fellows are welcome to apply for the Mentorship Program, however.