# Event Details - **Event Name**: JEN CALLEJA: FAIR - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 02 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 02 Oct, 2025 at 08:30 pm - **Event Description**: We are excited to welcome JEN CALLEJA back to Voce to discuss her typically slippery & singular new book FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION.About this EventWe are excited to welcome back to Voce, experimental writer, poet, & literary translator JEN CALLEJA, encouraging you to take up her invitation & attend the book fair, art fair, or, possibly, fun fair, where her typically slippery & singular new book FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION (perhaps?) takes place.The event will be chaired by editor of Wasafiri Magazine & judge for the International Booker Prize 2025, SANA GOYAL.‘With the singular brilliance, generosity and commitment to formal innovation that characterise her expansive body of work, Jen Calleja has gifted us a wholly indispensable fairground tour. Essential reading for anyone interested in translation, translations and the working conditions of those who write them...’ KATE BRIGGS author of THIS LITTLE ARTJEN CALLEJA is a poet, writer & essayist who has been widely published, including in The White Review, The London Magazine, & Best British Short Stories (Salt). She was awarded an Authors’ Foundation Grant from the Society of Authors to work on debut novel ‘Vehicle’ (Prototype, 2023), which was shortlisted for the Short Fiction/University of Essex Prize. Jen’s short story collection ‘I’m Afraid That’s All We’ve Got Time For’ was published by Prototype in 2020, & ‘Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode’ was published by Rough Trade Books in 2024. An excerpt from ‘Fair’ was Longlisted for the Ivan Juritz Prize for Experimentation in Text. Jen has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize as a literary translator from German into English & was the inaugural Translator in Residence at the British Library. Jen is co-founding editor of Praspar Press & played & toured in the DIY punk band Sauna Youth.This is one of our BORDERLESS events where we foreground world literature in translation, & welcome authors from across the world to discuss their work, often alongside their translators.TICKETS: £3 standard entry / £12.99 book & entryPlease book your ticket here on our Eventbrite page**Please note we will be unable to offer refunds on tickets when requested within 7 days of an event date.VOCE BOOKS is located at 54-57 Allison Street, Digbeth with step-free access via BRIG Café. For further enquiries about the event, or to discuss any other access requirements please email info@vocebooks.com - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/birmingham/jen-calleja-fair/100001514737032239 - **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Entertainment, Music - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fjen-calleja-fair-tickets-1514737032239 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 3, max: 12.99, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: Birmingham - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Voce Books - **lat**: 52.4784519 - **long**: -1.8896217 - **full address**: Voce Books, 54-57 Allison Street, Birmingham, United Kingdom ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Voce Books (https://allevents.in/org/voce-books/21549114) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/c4ef981157b4ad9fb347a646304cd3277590a04bcb105a793a74954c33e1a3f2-rimg-w1200-h600-dc1c1b19-gmir.jpg?v=1758878666 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/81bafa45aaedc5c64c60b0896da1f0e363d004401be74537747da2d25ef6b67c-rimg-w400-h400-dc1c1a17-gmir.jpg?v=1758878665 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Thu, 02 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Voce Books, 54-57 Allison Street, Birmingham, United Kingdom - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 3 up to 12.99 GBP - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Voce Books - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** Art, literary-art, Entertainment, Music - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about JEN CALLEJA: FAIR ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "JEN CALLEJA: FAIR", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/c4ef981157b4ad9fb347a646304cd3277590a04bcb105a793a74954c33e1a3f2-rimg-w1200-h600-dc1c1b19-gmir.jpg?v=1758878666", "startDate": "2025-10-02", "endDate": "2025-10-02", "url": "https://allevents.in/birmingham/jen-calleja-fair/100001514737032239", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Voce Books", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "54-57 Allison Street", "postalCode": "B5 5TH", "addressLocality": "Birmingham", "addressRegion": "EN", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "52.4784519", "longitude": "-1.8896217" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "We are excited to welcome JEN CALLEJA back to Voce to discuss her typically slippery & singular new book FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-04", "availabilityEnds": "2025-10-02", "validFrom": "2026-04-04", "lowPrice": "3.00", "highPrice": "12.99", "price": "3.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/birmingham/jen-calleja-fair/100001514737032239" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-04", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-04", "url": "https://allevents.in/birmingham/jen-calleja-fair/100001514737032239", "price": "12.99", "name": "Book & entry" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-04", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-04", "url": "https://allevents.in/birmingham/jen-calleja-fair/100001514737032239", "price": "3.00", "name": "Standard entry" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Voce Books", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/voce-books/21549114", "description": "Voce Books is a new independent bookshop for Birmingham, located at The Warehouse in Digbeth. 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