Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation

08/12/2025

IN/FIDELITY is live now!
https://exchanges.uiowa.edu/f25infidelity-issue-gallery

01/12/2025

The Fall 2025 edition of Exchanges, IN/FIDELITY, comes out on December 8th. Keep an eye out this week for sneak peaks at some of the fantastic translations that we are so excited to share!

18/11/2025

New interview alert! Check out Fion Tse's conversation with Jack Hargreaves about his translation of Hu Anyan's I Deliver Parcels in Beijing published by Astra House Books. https://exchanges.uiowa.edu/features-interview-jack-hargreaves

01/11/2025

Check out our new review of Tomás Downey's Diving Board translated by Sarah Moses. https://exchanges.uiowa.edu/reviewsgallery

07/10/2025

Attention artists! We are looking to feature some artwork for the cover of our Fall edition of Exchanges. Check out the link for more information about submitting artwork to Exchanges :

Submissions To submit works of visual art:The deadline for art submissions for the Fall issue is October 15, 2025.Please submit photos or scans of the media in .jpg format with the file name formatted as artist’s surname_piece title.jpg (e.g. Do_My Art.jpg) to [email protected]. Photos ...

29/09/2025

Tomorrow is the last ! day ! to submit ! to our Fall 2025 issue of Exchanges. Our theme this issue is IN/FIDELITY.

We invite pieces that dialogue with fidelity and infidelity, such as: radical or experimental approaches to translation; genre-breaking pieces; works that defy expectations, challenge hierarchies of trust, investigate faithfulness to a cause, flirt with desire, or subvert relationships between texts and readers.

In/fidelity is a window into the tensions inherent in translation. We often see fidelity as a sign of trustworthiness, while infidelity erodes trust. But we as translators have long been attuned to the gray spaces and tensions around in/fidelity. For this issue, we seek translations and translators’ notes that engage with these tensions, whether explicitly or implicitly. Through in/fidelity we can interrogate systems of trust—trust in translated texts, trust in relationships, trust in a political system.

Send us your translations, faithful or otherwise.

We are also soliciting art submissions! Help us illustrate the power of translated literature.

23/09/2025

One week left! ✨

👀 show us what you’ve translated!

16/09/2025

Did you 🦻📢 ?! Arthur Sze, interviewed on Translator’s Note, Exchanges’ podcast, has been named the next U.S. poet laureate. Listen to Sze in conversation with Jake Goldwasser last year, traversing subjects of translation, Classical Chinese poetry, and so much more!

https://exchanges.uiowa.edu/podcasteparthursze

05/09/2025

Literary translators! We want to publish you!

Full submission details, our Fall 2025 theme, and past issues ➡️ https://exchanges.uiowa.edu/faqs-translation

26/08/2025

We are so excited to share the latest episode of Translators Note, featuring the one and only Daniel Hahn, in conversation with —just in time for the new semester 🩶 Listen now on Spotify or at https://exchanges.uiowa.edu/tn-the-translators-book-table

Thank you Danny for joining us!

11/08/2025

It’s Women in Translation month, and we revisited our favorite recent reviews of books translated by and for women. What should we review next?

https://exchanges.uiowa.edu/reviewsgallery

23/07/2025

Calling all translators!

Submit now to our Fall 2025 issue, an exploration of IN/FIDELITY. We'll be accepting translated works until September 30.

See full submission details on our website:

https://exchanges.uiowa.edu/faqs-translation