support - our mission, donate to Calque

Calque is a small and occasional press which celebrates and values work that crosses or dismantles linguistic and cultural boundaries. We publish poetry, short essays and short fiction in a variety of small formats. We work at the intersection between languages, ideas, different crafts and genres.

We are not an island of strangers. At Calque we want to promote translation as a tool that helps us build bridges between people and places. It often feels like the world is fracturing into small and mutually-incomprehensible groups, trying to drown each other out. By valuing in particular the work produced in languages with a smaller speaker-base, by writers bilingual, multilingual and writing in second languages, we hope to show the connections between us, and defend the idea that what unites us is stronger than what divides.

If you would like to contribute with our project, please do so by buying, when possible, from our online shop: that helps us directly. 

Making a direct donation

You can also make a one-off direct donation to our project through PayPal. That will help us keep producing beautiful books and pamphlets:

Thank you for your support.