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Applications for the Summer School are now OPEN
Deadline for applications -- Sunday 16th March 2025
The workshop strands for 2025 are:
Danish-English - led by Paul Russell Garrett, with Danish author to be confirmed.
French-English - led by Vineet Lal, with Swiss author to be confirmed
Korean (editing workshop) - led by Clare Richards with professional editor Tamara Sampey-Jawad (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
This workshop will focus on editing. A professional UK editor (Tamara Sampey-Jawad, Fitzcarraldo Editions) will be present during the workshop to offer feedback.
Literature from Flanders - led by Kristen Gehrman with Flemish author Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem
This workshop is for Dutch-English literary translators. You do not need to have experience of translating Flemish literature.
Multilingual Literary Non-Fiction - led by Daniel Hahn
Multilingual Prose - led by Nashwa Nasreldin
Polish-English - led by Antonia Lloyd-Jones with Polish author Jacek Dehnel
One more workshop strand will be announced soon - this workshop will be open to Spanish-English literary translators - more details to follow. Applications are not yet open for this workshop strand, but email bclt@uea.ac.uk if you would like to receive more information when it is available.
The Summer School will be taking place in-person at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, Sunday 27th July - Saturday 2nd August 2025.
The 2025 Summer School packages are as follows:
Full residential package - £900.00
This package includes:
Welcome pack on arrival.
6 nights' accommodation on the university campus in a basic single ensuite bedroom in student halls.
Breakfast (Mon-Sat), morning and afternoon refreshments (Mon-Fri), lunch (Mon-Fri) and dinner each day (Sun-Fri. Please note that no dinner is served on the Wednesday as the evening is kept free to explore Norwich city centre).
Opening and closing drinks receptions and gala meals on the Sunday and Friday.
All tuition given throughout the week by experts in the field.
Coach travel to the National Centre for Writing on the Wednesday afternoon.
Non-residential package - £550.00
This package includes:
Welcome pack on arrival.
Morning and afternoon refreshments (Mon-Fri), lunch (Mon-Fri).
Opening and closing drinks receptions and gala meals on the Sunday and Friday.
All tuition given throughout the week by experts in the field.
Coach travel to the National Centre for Writing on the Wednesday afternoon.
All participants must arrange and pay for their own travel to and from University of East Anglia, Norwich and also ensure they have the relevant visa (if required).
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?