Applications for the Alicia Gordon Award for Word Artistry in Translation are now being accepted from ATA members in good standing. The award recognizes individual solutions to an imaginative and creative solutions to a particular translation challenge.

This award of $250 and certificate of recognition is open to all areas of translation, e.g. literary, medical, legal, etc.

Send a sample of 750 words or less (From French or Spanish into English, or from English into French or Spanish) by the deadline of June 1, 2009. 

The winner will be announced during ATA’s 50th Annual Conference in New York City on October 28–31, 2009.