Seeking a publisher for your prose manuscript? #wtawpress #callforsubmissions #prosesubmissions

A writing workshop! Whether you're looking for inspiration or a fun time with other writers or both, we invite you to join us as we celebrate the first anniversary of TAKE ME WITH YOU NEXT TIME by fellow Betty author Janis Hubschman. Free to attend, registration required. Link to register below.

An excellent article! #literarytranslators

A fun event to hone your skills or simply enjoy writing and sharing with other writers. Join us for this workshop led by @janishubschman.bsky.social in celebration of her book anniversary! Free to attend. Please register at the link in the original post. #writingworkshop #BettyBooks #fictionwriters

September is #NationalTranslationMonth! I'm reading Happy New Years by Maya Arad, translated from Hebrew by Jessica Cohen. #literarytranslation #worldliterature #womenwriters #EpistolaryNovels #booklovers newvesselpress.com/books/happy-...

Such a variety of experiences and influences! Get to know the Bettys through our articles in the Betty newsletter. Not a subscriber yet? Sign up here: wtawpress.eo.page/pxr1w. #wtawpress #bettybooks #newsletter #supportsmallpresses #womenwriters #booklovers #theBettys

Ask the translator!

Cristina Pinto-Bailey interviewed Elizabeth Lowe for the PELTA blog. An insightful conversation! Lowe is a prominent translator from various languages, whose memoir Translating from the Portuguese: A Life Translated is forthcoming from Tagus Press. hellopeltablog.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/t...

Fellow Betty @janishubschman.bsky.social reading from her story collection TAKE ME WITH YOU NEXT TIME. Stay tuned for announcements of an upcoming event celebrating the first anniversary of her book, the first Betty Books title! #wtawpress #bettybooks #bookanniversary #womenwriters #theBettys

Michelle Mirabella has reviewed The Book of Affects by Marilia Arnaud for Hopscotch Translation. I am so grateful for, and impressed by, her deep, thoughtful, scholarly analysis of the collection and my translation. #womenintranslationmonth #bookreview hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/08/26/q...

Here is my list for @electricliterature.com of seven important, necessary, beautiful works of literature by women writing in Arabic, Dutch, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Portuguese, and Spanish (with Quechua and Mapuche terms preserved in the translation). electricliterature.com/7-books-from...

Get your copies! #womenintranslationmonth #booksale #columbiauniversitypress #sundialhouse

An exciting opportunity! #worldliterature #educators #paidposition

Today's book recommendation: A Simple Intervention by Yael Inokai, transltd from German by Marielle Sutherland. In a near future, nurse Meret, a firm believer in the surgical procedure performed to cure patients of their emotional disorders, starts questioning the system. #WomenInTranslationMonth

Betty Books celebrates Women in Translation Month! To read the Bettys' recommendations, sign up to get our newsletter: wtawpress.eo.page/pxr1w #wtawpress #bettybooks #thebettys #newslettersignup #WomenInTranslationMonth

Oh, Lara, I hear you! #literarytranslation #pitchingtranslations wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Today's recommendation: Life After Kafka by Magdaléna Platzová, transl from Czech by Alex Zucker. Platzová combines fact and fiction in her account of the life of Felice Bauer, Kafka's fianceé of five years. Highly imaginative and engaging! #womenintranslationmonth www.blpress.org/books/life-a...

We're so excited about our third Betty title! IF THE OWL CALLS is a multi-layered literary mystery by the great Sharon White. Preorder your copy at a 20% discount using the link in the post below. #wtawpress #bettybooks #literarymistery #womenwriters #preordernow ‪@sharonw.bsky.social‬ @bettybooks

It was such a lovely evening! Thank you, Banter Bookshop, for hosting, Kathleen Wheaton for the great conversation, and everyone who showed up for our THE BOOK OF AFFECTS event. #WomenInTranslationMonth #shortstorycollection #Brazilianliterature #literatureintranslation #womenwriters

The Book Censor's Library by Bothayna Al-Essa, translated from Arabic by Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain, is tale of government surveillance and book burning and the courage to oppose thought suppression. A wonderful tribute to the power of literature and imagination. #womenintranslationmonth

Congratulations, @joannackalbus.bsky.social and @bettybooks.bsky.social! I love this book and am so proud to be a Betty! #wtawpress #bettybooks #bookanniversary #memoirs #womenwriters

It's Women in Translation Month! I'll be posting about works in translation written by women, starting of course with Marilia Arnaud, the brilliant Brazilian writer whose work I translate. Here's my translation of her story collection. I'm seeking a publisher for her novels. #WomenInTranslationMonth

In two weeks! If you're in the Fremont, CA, won't you join me and @kathleenwheaton.bsky.social at Banter Bookshop for a conversation about Marilia Arnaud's beautiful short story collection The Book of Affects in my translation? It'll be followed by a Q&A session and book signing. August 7 at 7 PM.

It was such a pleasure to talk to fellow Betty @joannackalbus.bsky.social! You can watch our conversation on the @seniorplanet.bsky.social YouT*be channel. Link in the original post. #wtawpress #bettybooks #womenwriters #agingwithattitude

It's my pleasure to invite readers in the Fremont, CA area to my book event at Banter Bookshop on Aug 7 at 7 PM. I'll be in conversation with Stegner Fellow Kathleen Wheaton about The Book of Affects by Brazilian author Marilia Arnaud in my translation. To register, go to banterbookshop.com/events.

A great review of Sharon White's Minato Sketches (acquired before she joined Betty Books) #theBettys #bookreview #bookrecommendation

Exciting new lit mag!

Congrats to Eleanor for a job very well done! WWB is hiring their next social media coordinator.

Honest question: is it realistic to expect that lit mags will include their stance on AI somewhere on their website? I've been seeing such statements more and more often in submission guidelines but wish *all* lit mags made them public. #writingisforhumans #literarymagazines #transparency

Love this story! Congrats, @leahbrowning.bsky.social! #flashfiction #flashfave

Honest question: is it realistic to expect that lit mags will include their stance on AI somewhere on their website? I've been seeing such statements more and more often in submission guidelines but wish *all* lit mags made them public. #writingisforhumans #literarymagazines #transparency

Ooh! I'm excited about this new magazine. Will be submitting for sure. #flashfiction #flashnonfiction #microfiction #newliterarymagazine #emergingwriters

Excellent essay by Victor Meadowcroft #literarytranslation #latinamericanliterature

On this Juneteenth ... on the left, a book I read recently and on the right the book I'm reading now. #Juneteenth #womenwriters

Thank you, readers of The Book of Affects by Brazilian author Marilia Arnaud, in my translation. If you get a chance, would you leave a review on a site of your choice and DM me about it, please? Thanks in advance! #brazilianliterature #literatureintranslation #womenwriters #bookrecommendations

Markdowns on several titles! Don't miss this sale. #WTAWPress #warehousesale #summerreading #supportsmallpresses @wtawpress.bsky.social

Another opportunity to get to know fellow Betty @joannackalbus.bsky.social better. Joanna is a debut author at age 84. Her memoir THE BOAT NOT TAKEN is a beautiful mother-daughter story and a powerful account of lives painstakingly rebuilt after the devastation of war. #newrelease #authorinterview

Hey, #Californiawriters! WTAW Press and Betty Books founder and EIC @pegalfordpursell.bsky.social will be teaching a seminar at the Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference in July! Registration ends on June 30 or whenever spots are filled, so register now. mcwc.org/afternoon-ev... #writersconference

Who can write what? How to write about a community we're not a part of without falling into the traps of stereotyping and appropriation? This is an important and necessary conversation. I just registered. (Link to register in the original post.) #wtawpress #virtualliteraryevents #linguisticjustice

An excerpt from Sunflowers in Hell, one of nine short stories in The Book of Affects by Marilia Arnaud, in my translation. You can buy it on the Columbia University Press site (cup.columbia.edu/.../the-book...) or order it from your usual bookseller. #brazilianliteratureintranslation #shortstories

This beauty by Rowan Tate! newflashfiction.com/false-notes-...

I'm with you! Especially the first suggestion. Numbering the pages of a manuscript in MS Word is a nightmare. Thank you for the article!

I've been asked recently to edit post-machine translations. To anyone out there who might contact me with such requests: I don't work with any kind of machine translation. I've added this information to my bios on various platforms and yet. #writingisforhumans #hiretranslators #respecttranslators

I'll be in conversation with @joannackalbus.bsky.social tomorrow, May 27, for @seniorplanet.bsky.social at 1 PM Pacific / 4 PM Eastern (link to join: seniorplanet.org/.../author-t...). Meanwhile, here's a brief interview with Joanna on the Senior Planet website. seniorplanet.org/articles-joa...

I'll be in conversation with Joanna C. Kalbus about her beautiful memoir and about being a debut author at age 84 for @seniorplanet.bsky.social on May 27. To join the session, go to seniorplanet.org/event/author... a few minutes before 1 PM PDT. #WTAWPress #BettyBooks #authorevent #agingwithattitude

Are you in the San Francisco Bay area? Join us today in Redwood City at 6:30 PM. @wtawpress.bsky.social @bettybooks.bsky.social #newrelease #authorevent #memoir #supportsmallpresses

Join @joannackalbus.bsky.social and me for this @seniorplanet.bsky.social event on May 27 at 4 PM EDT/1 PM PDT. Joanna will read from her memoir THE BOAT NOT TAKEN and talk her about her journey toward her debut publication at age 84! Link to join the Zoom event: seniorplanet.org/event/author...

TODAY! Use the link below to register for the virtual launch of THE BOAT NOT TAKEN, @joannackalbus.bsky.social's beautiful memoir. #WTAWPress #BettyBooks #memoir #virtualbooklaunch #supportsmallpresses

This is so exciting! Congratulations, @elletheresewriter.bsky.social! #WTAWPress #supportsmallpresses #KevenMcIlvoyprizewinner #literaryfiction