Showing posts with label italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label italy. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Freelance translation, Italian to Spanish (government documents), payment: $14 per page (anywhere)

International translation company in need of translator who can translate government documents (marriage, birth cert.) from Italian to Spanish. Pays 14.00 USD per page via PayPal. Must be available to work immediately. Please send translation sample along with work history and or resume.

Location: Anywhere-Online

Compensation: $14.00 per page (approx. 100-250 words per page)

Contact Information:

For inquiries: gigs-xrrsv-2478141871@craigslist.org

For submissions: gigs-xrrsv-2478141871@craigslist.org

Freelance translation, Italian to Spanish (government documents), payment: $14 per page (anywhere)

International translation company in need of translator who can translate government documents (marriage, birth cert.) from Italian to Spanish. Pays 14.00 USD per page via PayPal. Must be available to work immediately. Please send translation sample along with work history and or resume.

Location: Anywhere-Online

Compensation: $14.00 per page (approx. 100-250 words per page)

Contact Information:

For inquiries: gigs-xrrsv-2478141871@craigslist.org

For submissions: gigs-xrrsv-2478141871@craigslist.org

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Freelance writing, Italian America Magazine, pays $100-$250 per article

Who Are We? Italian America is the most widely read magazine in the U.S. for Italian Americans. It is a quarterly magazine, published by the Order Sons of Italy in America® (OSIA), the nation's largest and oldest organization for people of Italian heritage.

Most of the magazine is written in-house with the exception of two to four feature-length articles in each issue. We invite freelance writers to submit queries for these features.

What Do We Want? We look for stories about Italian Americans, their history, culture, contributions and issues that do not run in the mainstream magazines.

* Tightly written stories with character, drama and impact. We look for accurate facts, dates and statistics where relevant.
* Topics can include an important person of Italian heritage living or dead; little-known facts from Italian and Italian American history; a new Italian or Italian American product, discovery, cultural accomplishment or issue; cultural/scientific/medical news from Italy.
* We do not publish travel stories, personal memoirs, or food/recipe articles unless there is an historical or important cultural point.
* Features run from 750 to 1,000 words and must have 2-4 digitals, preferably in color in TIF or JPG format at 300 to 400 DPIs.

How to Query

* Send a query (300-word-max) to Editor Dona De Sanctis by email ddesanctis@osia.org or by mail at the address below. No telephone calls please.
* If accepted, article must be emailed as a Word document and the digitals as .TIF or .JPG files.
* We pay $100 to $250 dollars for the article and the digitals. Payment is made after author's final approval of the edited article.
* We purchase non-exclusive worldwide periodical publication and syndication rights in all languages and mediums for the story and digitals. The magazine shares all syndication/reprint fees with the author, who retains full rights to the story.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: ddesanctis@osia.org

For submissions: ddesanctis@osia.org

Website: http://www.osia.org/ia-magazine/about-ia.php

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Free to enter, Italian American Writers' Book Publication Poetry Prize, prize: $1,000/ publication

Deadline: 31 May 2011

The prize, consisting of book publication in bilingual edition by Bordighera, Inc., is dedicated to finding the best manuscripts of poetry in English by an American poet of Italian descent and surname or middle maiden surname, to be translated upon selection by the judges into quality translations of modern Italian, for the benefit of American poets of Italian ancestry and the preservation of the Italian language. Each winning manuscript will be awarded a cash prize of $1,000 to the winning poet and $1,000 for a commisioned translator. The poet must be a U.S. Citizen, but the translator may be an Italian native speaker, not necessarily a U.S. citizen. The poet may translate his/her own work if bilingually qualified. Submission may be made in English or bilingually with English followed by Italian mss.

The poet must submit 2 COPIES of 10 sample pages of poetry in English on any theme. Quality poetry in any style is sought. Universal themes are welcome. The final book manuscript length should not exceed 48 pages since, including translations, the published, bilingual book will be 96 pages in length. To give the translator time to complete the work, the entire winning manuscript will not be due for at least 6 months after selection of the winner.

The 10 sample pages of poems in English should be on white 8 1/2 by ll standard paper, clearly typed and photocopied and submitted in duplicate mss. (Single-spaced except between stanzas with no more than one poem to a page, though a poem may run on to more than one page.) Be sure to label all pages with titles of poems and number them from 1 to 10. The applicant's name should NOT appear on any poetry pages. Staple the ten anonymous sample pages securely together and attach one cover page to the front of each of 2 duplicate mss. with name, address, telephone, e-mail if applicable, of the author, plus a biographical note. The remainder of the ms. must be anonymous. Poems may have appeared in magazines, anthologies or chapbooks. Include acknowledgements at the bottom of the cover page only.

If poems have already been translated into modern Italian, submission of a bilingual sample is encouraged making a 20 page sample with a translation page following each English page. Include name and biographical note of translator on the 2 cover pages. NO GRAPHICS. Be sure to include 2 anonymous copies of ten pages each (20 if with translations) and 2 cover sheets with name, address, e-mail, bio. note, phone, and any acknowledgements. Include a SASE, biz-size. No mss. returned.

Manuscripts are judged anonymously. No entry fee.

Distinguished Poet Judge 2011- 2012: Paul Mariani

* Applicants should retain copies. Submission will not be returned.

* Include a self-addressed stamped, business-sized envelope. For receipt acknowledgement, send a self-addressed postcard.

* The decision of the judges will be final. Winners will be announced by October 30th. Mss. will not be returned.

* Bordighera, Inc. and the judges reserve the right not to award a prize within a given year if no manuscripts are eligible for publication. The author and translator will share in the royalties in the usual amount of a standard book contract to be drawn with Anthony J Tamburri, Publisher: Bordighera, Inc.

* Prize Co-Founders: Daniela Gioseffi & Alfredo de Palchi.

* Submissions must be postmarked by May 31st yearly.

Mail To: "Bordighera Poetry Prize"
Bordighera Press, Inc.
c/o John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
Daniela Gioseffi, Founding Coordinator
City University of New York, Graduate Center
25 West 43rd St. 17th Flr.
New York, N.Y. 10036

Contact Information:

For submissions: "Bordighera Poetry Prize", Bordighera Press, Inc., City University of New York, Graduate Center, 25 West 43rd St. 17th Flr., New York, N.Y. 10036

Website: http://www.italianamericanwriters.com

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Freelance translation, Italian or French to English, payment: $10 per page

Reply to: gigs-8jjrr-2203686334@craigslist.org

Need 10 (easy) pages Italian and 10 (easy) pages French translated to English. Pick one or both.

Compensation: $100 per 10 pp.

More information here.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Free to enter, The Digital Heretics Journalism Award 2011, top prize: EUR10,000 (Italy/ worldwide)

Deadline: 28 February 2011

The authors of the book Digital Heretics and the International Journalism Festival invite entries for the second edition of the Digital Heretics Journalism Award.

The award invites entries of online investigative journalism incorporating video, audio, text, photographs, animation (or a mix of these) which make innovative use of the internet (crowdsourcing, collaborative journalism, mash-ups, web 2.0, etc). The winner will be chosen on the basis of the originality, the level of documentation and the depth of the work presented.

Requirements

The work must be in Italian or English, the work must have been published online in the period from 01 January 2010 to 15 February 2011, the author(s) must be under the age of 35 at the time of publication.

How to participate

Send an email to heretics@journalismfestival.com by 28 February 2011 with the following: name and surname, date of birth, nationality, academic qualifications (if any) of the author(s), contact details of the author(s) (full postal address, email address and telephone number), Url of the work, title and brief summary of the work (max 1800 characters).

Participation in the award implies full acceptance of the rules. Work submitted which does not follow the rules will be rejected without the requirement on the part of the award organisers to inform the candidate. Each candidate can submit only one entry. All entries (plus all other relevant information set out above) must be sent to the email address indicated above. All other entries will be automatically excluded. The unmotivated absence on the part of the winner at the awards ceremony will result in the withdrawal of the award. The candidates absolve the jury from any responsibility deriving from the work presented for the award, including the violation of copyright and plagiarism. Entries and associated documentation will not be returned to the candidates. All candidates accept that the work submitted can be published in the media provided the publication is in association with the award. In accordance with Italian law 196 of 30 June 2003 and successive modifications, the data of the candidates will be used exclusively in relation to the award and can be disseminated for promotional use in relation to the award.

Award

The first prize is 5,000 euros (gross) with two prizes of 2,500 euros (gross) each to be given to other work of particular merit. The short-list of award finalists will be published on 31 March 2011. The awards ceremony will take place during the V edition of the International
Journalism Festival in Perugia Italy 13-17 April 2011.

The award committee

Arianna Ciccone and Chris Potter, directors of the International Journalism Festival, and Massimo Russo and Vittorio Zambardino, co-authors of Digital Heretics (Apogeo 2009). The award committee has the responsibility of overseeing the procedural aspects of the award. The committee has no influence on the selection of the short-list or the winners. Selection of the winners remains the exclusive responsibility of the award jury.

The jury

Jury president Mario Tedeschini Lalli internet publishing R&D Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso, Angelo Agostini IULM University Milan, Sebastiano Caccialanza head of department Corriere della Sera online at RCS Digital, Luca De Biase editor of Nòva24 the technology and new media insert of Il Sole 24 Ore, Sergio Maistrello author of Giornalismo e nuovi media (Apogeo 2010), Anna Masera editor of La Stampa online, Marco Pratellesi editor of online editions of Condé Nast Italy. The jury reserves the right to decide not to award one or more of the prizes if it considers that the entries are not of the necessary calibre. In this case the prize money will be carried forward to the 2012 award.

Award prize money

The award prize money and administrative costs are covered by a 10,000 euro donation from Google and the royalties from the sale of the book Digital Heretics. The financial administration of the award is the responsibility of the International Journalism Festival.

More information here.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Free contest, Posara Prize International Creative Writing Competition: A Foreigner in Italy, prize: £1000

Deadline: 28 February 2011

We love Italy and we've set up The Posara Prize to encourage fine writing about the country. It's a creative writing competition open to everyone.

We're looking for original, unpublished pieces of no more than 2,000 words, with the underlying theme of 'A Foreigner in Italy'. The work can be fiction or non-fiction: the important thing is to capture the emotion of Italy, as seen through an outsider's eyes.

You can write about the people, the countryside, art, architecture, food and wine – in fact, anything that makes Italy interesting, inspiring, exasperating or even frightening.

The winner will receive a prize of £1,000.

How it works

Entries should be made using the entry form below, and must be received no later than midnight on Monday 28 February 2011.

No more than one entry per person is allowed.

From all the entries a shortlist of 10 will be drawn up by Lois and Bill Breckon, and Elizabeth Garrett. The shortlist will be announced on the mill website on Monday 21 March 2011.

The winning entry will be will be selected by a panel of judges comprising best-selling authors Jessica Hart, Sharon Kendrick and Anita Burgh. All have been creative-writing tutors at the watermill. Between them they have had more than 150 books published.

The winner will be announced on Tuesday 5 April 2011.

Competition Rules

All entries should be submitted online using the form below. By submitting an entry you agree to the following rules:

* The piece must be an original work of the submitting author and will not have been published elsewhere. All rights, title and interest lie with the entrant.
* The submission must be in English.
* The piece must be no longer than 2000 words. No more than one entry per person is allowed. The judges' decision will be final.
* The submission must not contain any material that promotes discrimination based on race, gender, age, religion, nationality, disability, or sexual orientation.
* The submission must not contain any material that is unlawful or in violation of edicts, rules or regulations within the jurisdiction of the country where the submission is created.
* The submission must not infringe on the intellectual property or other statutory or common law rights of any third party (including, but not limited to copyright, trademark and privacy rights).
* No person involved with the promotion of the Watermill at Posara will be eligible for entry.
* Only entries submitted through the online form will be accepted. No written submissions or correspondence about the competition will be accepted.
* Entries must be received before midnight on Monday 28 February 2011.
* The work will remain the copyright of the author, but The Watermill at Posara reserves the right to publish extracts (no more than 300 words) from shortlisted entries and to publicise the competition, the shortlisted entries, and the winner as appropriate.

More information here.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Freelance short story translation, Italian to Spanish, pays $0.08 per word

The translation is for a 1,450 word short story. The translation will be challenging (the story is surreal and slightly stream-of-consciousness).

The translation is for an online artwork. Translators will be prominently credited and will have the option of having their contact information, biography, photograph, & translation notes included in the artwork.

Please use English when contacting me about this job. Thanks!

Payment: 0.08 USD per word

More information here.

Monday, November 15, 2010

Free to enter, Stories on Umbria journalism award, prize: € 2,500 for each category

Deadline: 13 March 2011

Call for entries 2011

The Perugia and Terni Chambers of Commerce have set up the second edition of Stories on Umbria journalism award. The competition is addressed to articles and TV programmes covering issues of artisticcultural-environmental highlights and high-quality economic system of the region, improving Umbria visibility both in Italy and worldwide.

Rules

1. Participation in the competition is free and implies full acceptance of the rules.

2. The competition is divided into three sections:

Traditional press articles: photo-journalistic articles published in 2010 in Italy or abroad; Television: TV reports broadcasted in 2010 in Italy or abroad; Web articles: web articles published in the net in 2010.

3. Articles and programmes can be sent also as the result of a team work. Each author can submit only two pieces of work.

4. Works must be sent to the Organizing Secretariat of the Competition not later than March 13, 2011: Chamber of Commerce of Perugia, Press and Communication Office, Via Cacciatori delle Alpi, 42 - 06121 Perugia - Italy, email: urp@pg.camcom.it. Competitors must also send the entry form – duly filled in and signed – and a brief curriculum vitae.

5. Press - Prize of € 2.500,00.

Participation is reserved to articles published in newspapers or magazines in 2010. Works must be sent together with a copy of the newspaper or magazine in which they were published (also in PDF format if sent by email). Articles in foreign languages must be translated into Italian or English.

6. TV - Prize of € 2.500,00.

Participation is reserved to services broadcasted in 2010 on national television or satellite tv. Works must be sent in DVD or mini DVD cam. A brief synopsis in Italian or in English must be submitted; television services in foreign languages must be subtitled in Italian or in English.

7. Web - Prize of € 1.500,00.

Participation is reserved to articles published on the web in 2010. Articles in foreign languages must be translated into Italian or English.

8. The works will be selected by the jury panel.

9. Works will be examinated by the following general criteria:

- Originality of the subjects
- Richness of information
- Ability to match territory and enterprise issues.

10. The Jury Panel will select the best contribution in each category. The awarding of the prizes will take place in Perugia during the 2011 International Festival of
Journalism.

11. Every price will be paid cash for the amount of 40%. The remaining 60% will consist in a journey to discover Umbria and its local products.

12. Prizes not collected personally by the authors will remain in the availability of Chambers of Commerce of Perugia and Terni.

13. The decisions and the reasons expressed by the Jury Panel are final. Chambers of
Commerce reserve the right to make appropriate amendments to these Rules if
necessary, by adequate publicity on their institutional websites.

General Information

In connection with anything not expressly provided for in these rules, decisions are up to the Chambers of Commerce. The Organizing Secretariat of the award is by the Chamber of Commerce of Perugia. The Chamber of Commerce of Perugia guarantees the use of personal data in accordance to law. The Chamber of Commerce of Perugia reserves the right to publish all the works on their own media, in obedience to original texts and images.

Organizing Secretariat:

Chamber of Commerce of Perugia
Press and Communication Office
Via Cacciatori delle Alpi, 42 06121 Perugia - Italia
tel. +39 075 5748273 – 5748254 – 5748312
urp@pg.camcom.it

More information here.