Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference

The Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference is a week-long residential program that provides training and community for beginning and experienced literary translators. It combines small, genre-based workshops with lectures, classes, readings, and meetings with agents and editors. Workshops are limited to ten participants and include individual meetings with workshop leaders. The conference aims to strengthen visibility and access to high-quality literary translation and to provide translators with training comparable to that of creative writers.

Small workshops with individual attention, lectures and classes on literary translation, meetings with agents and editors, and workshop packets distributed in advance.

Translators at various levels, students mastering a foreign language who want translation skills, teachers interested in incorporating literary translation into their classrooms, and others wishing to engage with the literary translation community may apply.

Applicants choose either the Introductory Workshop or the Translation Manuscript Workshop (or apply as auditors). Admissions are rolling from December 1 to March 15; applicants are notified approximately four to six weeks after applying.