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Applications will open for the 2026 BCLT Summer School in January 2026
The workshop strands for 2026 will be announced in December 2025
The Summer School will be taking place ONLINE, Monday 20th July - Friday 24th July 2026.
After 26 years of running literary translation summer schools, the BCLT Summer School is a vibrant, tried and tested format for the professional development of literary translators. Not only does it provide a nurturing environment for translators to work on their craft; it also establishes a valuable network of translators, editors, publishers and indeed friends from around the world.
The core activity of the week is the literary translation workshops, led by experienced literary translators and editors, working from a range of languages into English. We also include in the programme two creative writing sessions for literary translators with authors writing in English, as well as plenary sessions addressing various aspects of the theory and practice of literary translation, with a focus on professional development for translators.
Our last online BCLT Summer School took place in July 2024. Please download the programme here to get an idea of how the schedule works for an online Summer School.
We have made the decision to offer both in-person and online Summer Schools in the future. Our 2026 Summer School will be ONLINE followed by an in-person Summer School in 2027. We will then continue to alternate between the two formats. We will not be offering a hybrid event.
What happens at a BCLT Summer School?