📣 Submissions for the 2026 ALTA awards are open! Publisher and translators: Submit works published in 2025 to our book prizes 🏆 Emerging translators: Apply to the 2026 Travel Fellowships to get to the ALTA49 conference in Portland, OR ✈️ Submissions close on March 16! Learn more: buff.ly/x2W71cx

📢 ATA is excited to accept session proposals for ATA’s 67th Annual Conference, October 28-31, 2026, in San Francisco, California! Submit your proposal today at https://bit.ly/4kmhhBr! 🌁 . . .##Career #Growth #Translator #Interpreter #Experience #LanguageServices #PublicSpeaking #xl8 #1nt #atanet

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What fun to find a bodega cat pic taken practically in my own neighborhood! 🐱

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What happens when you are googling to confirm a fact and *your own writing* shows up as the top result?

Hi, poet friends! My debut collection comes out from Cornerstone Press on January 27. If anyone would like to review it, hit me up and I'll send you an ARC! #poetry

Random wisdom from the 18th century!

Kate, after a moment, made the best of this. #WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames

Karen Santos da Silva and I will be at @wordupbooks.bsky.social this Friday talking about our translations of the best-selling French author you've never heard of: Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni. If you're in or near Manhattan, please drop by! #translation #womenwriters

📢📢📢We have just signed a new volume for our 'Critical Texts' series, coming in spring 2027! 'Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, Lettres de mistriss Fanni Butlerd. A bilingual edition', edited and translated by Marijn S. Kaplan and Karen Santos da Silva. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

Hello BlueSky! Bracken Magazine is open for submissions of poetry and visual art through November 30. Browse past issues and see our guidelines here: www.brackenmagazine.com/submit

This poem by Lorraine Carey from Bracken Issue XIII sent shivers up my spine. www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiii/s...

Good morning, my loves. Happy Tuesday! This is all i got today. I hope your day behaves.

New course launched for the next generation of creative translators: www.ox.ac.uk/news/feature... | University of Oxford (10/28/25) . . . #Translator #Translation #NextGeneration #Education #LiteraryTranslation #Linguist #Creativity #Masters #xl8 #atanet

I haven't thought much about Ferlinghetti since my brief beatnik phase in the 80s, but the first 4 lines of this poem remind me why I loved it. georgebilgere.com/so/85Pc6j639...

Speaking of dreams and swans, there is this one by Polish artist Wilhelm Kotarbinski…

#Editors and #authors, here’s the best #video ever for #logophiles like us! 💖 www.linkedin.com/posts/merria...

This poem is really a doozy! copper-nickel.org/when-i-say-i...

Glad to see that these guidelines I drew up for people looking for #translation or #interpretation services are still making the rounds online! 😀

The award is bestowed biennially in odd-numbered years, and the winner will be announced on October 23 at the ATA’s 66th Annual Conference in Boston! ⚓️

The ATA Ungar German Translation Award is given for a distinguished literary translation from German into English that has been published in the United States.

ICYMI: the shortlist for ATA's Ungar German Translation Award is out! (post 1 of 3)

Happening next month! Check out this webinar hosted by the Carolina Association of Translators and Interpreters (CATI), featuring @katedeimling.bsky.social: buff.ly/hJE2rxz

Many commentators say that vigilante groups are never the answer. But they clearly don't know about the masked Ecuadorian trio named “Acción Ortográfica Quito,” who roam the streets at night with a singular purpose: to correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes they find in graffiti.

Unboxing The Story of the Marquis de Cressy, forthcoming this fall from @mlanews.bsky.social!

Cats are and always have been cyberpunks

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

why AI should not replace human translators #38265073 "A striking example from Prof Federici's research showed the risks of unchecked machine translation of cancer information, with "Don't stay at home if you develop a fever" being translated as "Do stay at home" www.ciol.org.uk/ai-translati...

This online reading with L. Annette Binder & Jed Myers for Wandering Aengus press is happening and you can register for it here. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Bracken's latest issue has arrived! Thanks to all the wonderful contributors who have made it sing. 💚https://www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiii/main

🌱 Finally, a magenta cosmos rain-polished.

While I do not condone writing in library books, I am really enjoying the reader-response interactions of this high school student who previously checked out the copy of Sense and Sensibility I am reading.

Launching an email newsletter about literary translation events and other tidbits. First issue drops this week. Sign up at my website if you're interested! www.katedeimling.com/newsletter-s...

Check out @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social Desnos Dossier! You can find different translations of “J’ai tant rêvé de toi”, by Robert Desnos, by translators including C. Francis Fisher, Mark Polizzotti, Mary Ann Caws, Damion Searls, and many others. worldpoetryreview.org/the-desnos-d...

#Poetry -- Praying for Summer

The devastating, shortsighted attack on literature continues. List from Magic City Books. Who'd they miss? Note: the small publishers selected here for financial attack include (among other very worthy and important presses) @transitbooks.bsky.social, publisher of 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse.

There is so great concord in musicke, that it seemeth to be but one sound, and one voyce: so true friends are but one minde. #PalladisTamia #FrancisMeres

Some great events with World Poetry translators coming up in the month of May! You can find more info & RSVP links in our bio.

It would be interesting to run the numbers to see if the people pardoned for January 6 have committed crimes at a higher rate than undocumented people. Has anyone done that?

I keep on discovering new things about this poem... Thanks to @alinaetc.bsky.social for sharing her thoughts on Desnos.

Passage, 2007 by installation artist Cornelia Konrads #womensart #Beltane #May1st