So excited to have a translation in the new issue of @stingingfly.bsky.social, a short story by the incredible Rosario Villajos 🪰🪰🪰

Five Days to Go ✒️ We are currently accepting submissions of fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry for our Winter 2026-27 issue until May 20th, 5pm. Poets writing in the Irish language are invited to submit their work for the Comhchealg section of the magazine. stingingfly.org/submissions/

The fact that more and more people are taking up hobbies such as gardening, pottery, woodwork, art, floristry etc will only grow as AI grows. We’ll need tactile human interaction more and more. And our mental health and well-being will improve as a consequence.

I’m thinking of throwing my hat in the ring for the Labour leadership. My hat would definitely make better prime minister than Wes Streeting, for a start.

Join us for Summer 2026 Issue Launch this Saturday in partnership with @ilfdublin.bsky.social sky.social 🎪🌞🍦 The event will feature contributor readings / DJ session by Siobhan Kane / announcement of the winner of 2026 Stinging Fly & FBA Fiction Prize Book your tixs: ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...

Watching the Greens win the mayoral & council (not called yet but they're on 39 councillors with 1 ward to declare) today in Hackney, win in Hastings, Waltham Forest & Norwich, and (my local) go from 2 councillors to **28** (1 short of overall majority) in Haringey has been a small but real 🌱 today

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Feeling proud to be a Hackney gal today 💚🌱

Make Hate Weird Again.

London, let’s be having you 💚💚💚

Repeat after me: authors/translators have moral rights, which include the right to be attributed, and the right to integrity, which means not having their works changed without permission. Rights are rights, which means they are not optional, conditional, or selectively applied.

My two manuscript editing personalities

⏰ Coffee Morning: Why ALCS matters to freelancers Fri 8 May, 10 am Authors & journos - a vital opportunity to understand how to claim "secondary" income that often goes unnoticed. @alcs.co.uk buff.ly/fuun8cL

New in @equatormag.bsky.social, a dispatch from Havana, where recurrent fuel shortages have created a permanent state of crisis. Translated from Spanish by @rahulbery.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/aft...

We invite artists to submit potential cover art for our magazine, until Monday May 11th, 5pm (Irish Time). Our magazine and book cover artists have included Pat Curran, Stephanie Deady, Niamh Flanagan, James Hanley, Alice Maher, Melissa O'Donnell and Lee Welch. stingingfly.org/news/call-ou...

Fab poems in translation @robmunb.bsky.social 💜✨

📢 The Goethe‑Institut London is hiring! German-speaking Social Media Manager (part‑time) & Head of Library and Library Events📱📚 Work where culture, language & international exchange come together 🌍✨ Apply now – or help us find the right people by sharing 🔁💬 www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ue...

May (1929) Eric Ravilious

And I also mention it in this article about Asturian for @thedialmag.bsky.social: www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

Excited to share Every Stone a Seed, a collection I've had the joy of co-editing for @wwborders.bsky.social. The first piece is an article by writer and translator Laura Marcos on the Asturian language and its literature. More pieces, all translated from Asturian, will be along in the coming weeks!

“Many people—writers and readers both—are still finding a home in Asturian literature.” Laura Marcos kicks off our newest issue, “Every Stone a Seed: Writing from Asturias,” and outlines recent support for Asturian literature. Read “Against All Odds”: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Happy Pub Day to EXEMPLARY HUMANS! In an interview with @twolinespress.com’s Karen Gu, Juliana Leite shares insights into her creative process. Read here: buff.ly/CtYLE1S SF, DC, NY: Don’t miss the book tour this week! We’ll see you 7pm tonight at The Ruby SF! RSVP for the address: buff.ly/SI5ysSr

I’m not really on socials rn but couldn’t resist sharing this smug coffee/reading pic from my residence at the beautiful Fondation Jan Michalski 😏 🇨🇭🗻☕️📚

The only A.I. I support is Abolish ICE.

📣 Join BCLT Translator-in-Residence Charlotte Whittle for Write Like A Translator 📣 📅 Wednesday 6 May ⏰ 5:30–7:00pm 📍 In-person, University of East Anglia, Norwich Register 👉 www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

Thanks to @thedialmag.bsky.social for publishing these poems - small moments scattered into glistening shards of affect - by Asturian poet María García Díaz, from her ridiculously beautiful collection All That Flows Is Capital (...yet to be published in English!) www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

Made up with this review of The Posthumous Book of Shahrazad in the @irishtimes.com by poet Mícheál McCann: 'What does translation offer, Menéndez wonders, if not "the chance to see oneself through the eyes of another"' 👁️ #asturianu skeinpress.com/product/the-...

World tour commences 🌍 After a few years of travelling up & down the UK, I'm going to be doing a lot of events abroad this year, starting this month... 23 April - PARIS, After 8 Books 25 April - BRUSSELS, rile* Books 26 April - ROTTERDAM, KIOSK Rotterdam with Kate Briggs

We are open for full length poetry collection submissions until 31st May. A very small percentage of people who submit to Broken Sleep Books actually buy a book from us. If every submitter bought just 1 title, it would make a huge difference. Guidelines: www.brokensleepbooks.com/submissions

‘Make space on your TBRs; this is an unmissable reading list’ We are delighted to reveal the shortlist for the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies. ➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2026

I imagine this 'room to write' won't be in Spain where Airbnb is about to pay a 64 million euro fine for listing unlicensed rentals, but there's presumably quite a good chance it will be in an illegal Israeli settlement in Palestine #BookSky

📢 THE 404 INK BURSARY FOR UK-BASED SMALL PRESSES NOW OPEN Applications are now open for our bursary to support small presses in the UK. There are 2 strands you can apply for: donating £1,000 towards creative projects, or £500 towards hosting an intern. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I'll take that for the first 100 reader reviews of Fair 💙

me and my two friends, judging you

Congratulations to PELTA members @guedesftaty.bsky.social, @ninaperrotta.bsky.social, @bethangharad.bsky.social, @aminckey.bsky.social, @emyrwallace.bsky.social, Julia Sanches, Vania Gomes and Gilles Madan - all shortlisted for the @englishpen.bsky.social PEN Presents: Brazil funding programme!

On 3/20/26 at 2pm EST the @nationalbook.bsky.social will be hosting a free virtual event with author Gabriela Cabezón Cámara and translator Robin Myers! Head to their website to RSVP, and don't miss our interview with this pair here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

In partnership with @britisharts.bsky.social, we’re thrilled to announce the shortlisted translators for PEN Presents: Brazil, an iteration of our ongoing #PENPresents award for sample translations. Discover the full shortlist ⤵️ www.englishpen.org/posts/news/e...

If you don’t like my peaches don’t shake my tree

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

Do you have a prickly translation problem, a quirky query, a confounding conundrum? BCLT Translators in Residence Rosalind Harvey & Charlotte Whittle will host an open translation clinic to discuss any translation challenges you may have encountered in your practice👉 www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

Translator math is starting another translation to take a break from the first one... ...then starting a third translation to take a break from the second one, and so on in a never-ending Möbius strip.

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

When Prince sings “animals strike curious poses” what is the first animal you think of and what pose is it striking? For me it’s a lemur up on its hind legs looking around in mild alarm.

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

Absolutely honoured that Lília Momplé’s ‘Stress’, in my translation from Mozambican Portuguese, features in Wasafiri 125. Available now! 📚

Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social, I have enjoyed our exchange of letters about which of our parties is best placed to stop Reform. Hannah Spencer MP and I trust that you agree that this question has now been resolved once and for all. Thanks, Zack Polanski

The small, brave band of MPs who represent the trampled, not the tramplers, has a very welcome new member. We should all ask ourselves why, in a supposed democracy, such representatives are so rare. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Faber asked me to write about translating Favorita by Michelle Steinbeck for their blog, so I wrote about translating 4 sentences www.faber.co.uk/journal/how-... @faberbooks.bsky.social

The Green victory in Denton is the result which will have the biggest effect on Labour, far more so than a Reform win. The blithe assumption progressives have nowhere else to go has been proved catastrophically wrong. Can’t help thinking of this quote from a Labour minister, a year ago…

So the Telegraph is taking this well