Website
Type Of Organization
Press
Mission Statement / Editorial Focus
Poets & Traitors Press is an independent publisher of books of original poetry and translations by a single author/translator. Poets & Traitors seeks to showcase authors who travel between writing and translation, artists for whom Language is made manifest through languages and whose own word carries, shapes, and is shaped by that of another.
Poets & Traitors views translation as forming part of a continuum with the creative writer’s work. Most poetry presses and contests explicitly forbid the inclusion of any translated work, while the handful of independent presses that publish translations are not concerned with translators as writers. Poets & Traitors aims to demolish this wall between writing and translation by publishing books that cultivate a dialogue between the two—books that combine poetry and translations by one writer-translator.
Social Media Platforms Used
FB and twitter
Is Your Group Affiliated With A University, Portal Or Other Agency?
yes
If Yes, Please Name
The New School
Primary Editor/Contact Person
Val Vinokur
Contact Title
Founding Editor
Publishes
poetry, translation
Submissions Policy
Query and sample first with ten pages of original poetry and ten pages of translations. We look for confluence, dialogue, argument, tension, and interplay between the work of the author and the work the author is translating.
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions
Yes
Submission Guidelines URL
Simultaneous Submissions Accepted
no
Reading Period
Year round
Reporting Time
1 - 4 months
Author Payments
copies
Number Of Paid Staff
1
Number Of Unpaid Staff
2
Year Founded
2017
Number Of Books Published Per Year
1-3
Titles In Print
3
Paperback
100
Average Price Per Book
17
Number Of Issues Per Year
1
Back Issues Available
yes
Unsolicited Manuscripts Accepted
yes
Format
perfect
Publish Print Anthology?
yes
Name
Val Vinokur
Title
Founding Editor
What Is The Staff Structure At Your Magazine/press?
Gili Ostfield, Editor
Julia Curl, Associate Editor
Press