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May 21, 2024

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Write the World 2024: What I Wish I’d Known: General Professional Advice for Translators

What I Wish I’d Known: General Professional Advice for Translators

Whether you’re publishing your first book or your tenth, this session is for you! This expert panel of editors, writers, and publicists will share their secrets on landing a book contract, then creating a buzz about your forthcoming title.

We’ll discuss what to do during the all-important 3-4 months before publication, general marketing strategies, getting the most out of social media, getting your work reviewed, boosting sales, and winning post-publication prizes and awards. Special topics will include the differences in publishing in the UK vs the US, as well as publishing children’s books and poetry. Time will be reserved to answer your questions.

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Moderator

Nancy Naomi Carlson won the 2022 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Author of 15 titles (10 translated), her second full-length poetry collection, as well as her co-translation of Wendy Guerra, were noted in The New York Times. Solio (Seagull Books, 2024), her translation of Samira Negrouche, from Algeria, just arrived.

Panelists

Katie Freeman is an independent book publicist and literary arts consultant. She helps run Cento Lit, a collective of publicists and curators, and The Array, a writing and event space in Brooklyn. She serves on the Book Council of the National Book Foundation and can sporadically be found online @foxyhedgehog. Chad W. Post is the publisher of Open Letter Books, a press at the University of Rochester dedicated to publishing contemporary literature from around the world. He is also the editorial director of Dalkey Archive Press, and the author of The Three Percent Problem: Rants and Responses on Publishing, Translation, and the Future of Reading. Janet Hong received the TA First Translation Prize and the LTI Korea Translation Award for her translation of Han Yujoo’s The Impossible Fairy Tale. A two-time winner of the Harvey Award for Best International Book for Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s Grass and Yeong-shin Ma’s Moms, she is currently a mentor for ALTA’s Emerging Translator Mentorship Program.