We’re delighted to announce that 18 titles from 14 publishers, 12 languages and 16 regions have won #PENTranslates awards. www.englishpen.org/posts/news/p...

This Imbolc, we are thrilled to unveil the cover of 'The Posthumous Book of Shahrazad', the award-winning Asturian collection by @raquelmenendez.bsky.social, in an extraordinary translation by @robmunb.bsky.social! Design & illustration by Patrick Fisher at Frontwards Design. Pre-orders now open!

In this short story by Ariel Florencia Richards, a young woman reflects on the 'cumulative' silence surrounding her transition, and its cold, creeping impact on her relationship with her mother. Translated from Chilean Spanish by @bethangharad.bsky.social Read now: buff.ly/ZO2BOfF

Could not be prouder to share this excerpt of @arielflorencia.bsky.social stunning INACABADA, in my translation from the Spanish. Thank you to @wasafirimag.bsky.social for publishing this incredible piece 💛 wasafiri.org/content/unfi...

The Third Wheel is a new literary magazine, whose mission is to create a dedicated space for literary translators, and to illuminate the art of translation: the invisible struggles, creative battles, and quiet triumphs that shape every text.

I wait for the evening and the wine and that's all.

I don't know how many times it needs to be said that you absolutely should not let fucking "AI" anywhere near your legal contracts, either in creating them or evaluating them, but apparently it needs to be said at least one more time, so allow me to say it again, here, right now

Looking for nonfiction. Critical and lyrical essays, collaborative projects, cross genre works, and the incorporation of original art or photographs all welcome.

Here’s to 2026

Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.

We’re hiring a Commissioning Editor in the Faber Children’s team. You’ll have experience working with authors across all age groups, picture books to Young Adult, and a track record in commercial acquiring. Closing date Sunday 4th January 2026. www.faber.co.uk/careers/comm...

Merry Christmas to my mother, who got my toddler a toy fire engine that not only makes lots of noise, it also sprays real water

Organizing books by colour is pervert shit.

Readers and bookshops: please boycott any publisher that replaces literary translators with the non-reading, uncultured, lying, manipulative plagiarism regurgitator.

Deck the halls and lock him up. Written by Rikki Beadle-Blair Performed at Soho Theatre, Walhamstow for charity fundraiser "Comedians Do Carols."

We want YOUR manuscripts!! 📢 If you're a writer or translator, we want to hear from you! We're currently reviewing book-length prose and poetry submissions. We're interested in pretty much everything. The weirder it is, the more likely we are to publish it!

Samuel Heyman, "Ten-minute Plays and Monologues: A Writing Workshop" (Friday, January 16th, 4-7 pm PT) This workshop, which is part of the VOICE Initiative, is free and open to all! forms.gle/E3t1Z4MwBzPB...

Check it out!! Hodder & Stoughton have an open submission window for all fiction genres. Get in quick. Details in link. Please share :)

Very fond of this weird little Machado outgrowth (/poem I wrote) - and of the buena gente at @minorliteratures.bsky.social for publishing it!

French & Francophone pals: book recommendations please. I'm going to Paris for the weekend and I will allow myself to buy 1 book. I like fiction, particularly genre fiction, and I'd like something not too long, light-hearted, fun & ideally not translated into English. Merci d'avance !

A reminder as we enter the holiday season: You celebrate in whatever ways make you feel comfortable, loved, and bright through winter, even if that means not observing holidays in a traditional sense or at all. You protect you, darlings, and have a wonderful wintertime ❄️

Submissions for the 10th year of the Jhalak Prize are open 👇 #BookSky

Cover reveal ! 💅🍒🚬 Here’s the pretty incredible cover for my translation of FAVORITA by Michelle Steinbeck, out from @faberbooks.bsky.social on 12 February. “Part hallucinatory road trip, part feminist revenge fantasy: a wild, furious and mischievous novel…” www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

A Government of cowards. Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution. They can't get away with this. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Tomorrow is November 18th, everyone — will we make it out?

For those not on Instagram, here is the statement from Alice Wong’s family:

📚 BOOK LAUNCH: We Are Still Here 🗓️ 18 Nov, 7PM 🎟️ £6 (proceeds supporting Gazan Students) An urgent, unflinching anthology of stories, poems & essays from Gaza’s university students — voices writing from the frontlines of genocide, displacement, and resistance. buff.ly/ffEs3JQ

Ways to honour her memory: - Donate to her Crips 4 eSIMS for Gaza chuffed.org/project/crip... - Support disability justice, which is liberatory, anti-capitalist, & Alice Wong *always reminded you of that - Read her books, columns, old podcast transcripts, It All. disabilityvisibilityproject.com

(Grieving, & loving our community. Going back thru collaborations, found this from Alice, & am smile-crying: ‘Khairani helped me understand that poetry is all around us & that there’s something for everyone.’ Alice Wong was THE best of us. *She helped us understand crip beauty is all around us.)

Heads up...Our poetry and fiction teams will no longer be accepting submissions after November 20th. Want to submit a piece? The link to submit is in our bio (and submissions are free)!

Repetitive strain injury from constantly typing ‘-AI’ into Google

There’s another wave of author impersonators offering consultations/mentoring for a price. (I got one from “Claire Keegan” telling me I’m very promising!) I’m sure you are great, but I didn’t email to tell you how swell you are. Here’s info on book scams: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/prh-fraud/

any translation publishers out there willing to share how many pitches they receive a year on average?

At this year’s Int’l Booker Prize ceremony, a white translator went on a rant TO MY FACE about how translators should translate into their first languages only and I was genuinely flabbergasted because I was like… Do you know whom you’re speaking to???

So this is what hope feels like!

Happy Zohran Day to all who celebrate!!

NYC friends? Cheering for you today. Bring it home. vote.nyc/page/find-yo...

I wrote a little thing for the @mptmagazine.bsky.social ‘From the Archives’ feature. I’d love you to give it a read! modernpoetryintranslation.com/from-the-arc...

A Christmas Carol, but Scrooge is visited by the spirits of 3 freelancers whose invoices he didn't get around to paying before Christmas

Join us at Ibraaz for the London launch of Palestine is everywhere! Thursday 6 Nov 2025, 6:30pm — 8pm With Laleh Khalili, Mira Mattar, Edwin Nasr, Rahul Rao and Skye Arundhati Thomas. ibraaz.org/whats-on/pal...

Are the right ok? This is next level of "journalistic* " slop. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Congrats to everyone on the long list! ✨ Am especially proud of my pal Kevin Gerry Dunn, translator of HUNGRY FOR WHAT by Maria Bastarós ( @dauntbookspub.bsky.social). Go team! 👏

Our Calico Series is open for submissions for 🐾 animal stories 🐾 in translation! Open to translations from any language into English, word count between 2k to 10k words, deadline January 15, 2026! Full submission details here: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...

absolute workhorse of a reaction image from over 100 years ago

Something extraordinary is happening. +6000 new members in ONE SINGLE day. @greenparty.org.uk just hit 130,000 members and rising!!! Join.greenparty.org.uk

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