The Center for Writers & Translators has as its mission the promotion of literary activity, especially where that relates to the practice of translation – translation taken in its broadest sense. It seeks to welcome writers and translators to Paris; sponsors and hosts readings, lectures, and debates, often in association with the bookshop Shakespeare & Company; supports a writer/translator in residence; and publishes (in association with Sylph Editions) the "Cahiers Series", a set of short books which make available new explorations in writing, in translating, and in the areas linking these two activities.