The Eratosphere Annual Translation Bake-off is here!

The well-know Eratospherean, Chris Childers, will be the host for this event. He has just kicked off the event with a call for submissions. Chris will be screening the material for the our Distinguished Guest for translation and Final Judge, Rachel Hadas.

The complete announcement at the Distinguished forum, here is also appended below.

...Alex


Carissimi...

The submissions have been coming in from Eratosphereans and others. However, the Spherean response has not been as lively as I expected. Yes, there's still over a month left in the submission window, so I encourage everyone who can to jump with their submission in their area of interest before teh May 1, 2009 deadline. The initial announcement can be found here.

Cheers,
...Alex

The next issue of Able Muse will 1) feature a number of guest editors in all areas, and 2) attempt to feature as many Eratosphereans as possible in these areas … even including an Sphere-centric contest. With that, I’m pleased to invite the submissions on behalf of the guest editors. The pertinent details follow. In all cases, the submission guidelines for Able Muse are online here. The deadline for all submissions indicated below is May 1, 2009.

POETRY

1. To begin with, I have asked

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