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Applications for the 2025 in-person Summer School will open in January 2025.
The workshop strands for 2025 will be announced in December 2024. The Summer School will be taking place in-person at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, Sunday 27th July - Saturday 2nd August 2025.
After 25 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 in-person BCLT Summer School took place in July 2023. Please download the programme here to get an idea of how the schedule works for an in-person Summer School.
We have made the decision to offer both in-person and online Summer Schools in the future. Our 2025 Summer School will be IN-PERSON followed by an online Summer School in 2026. 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?