Check out our new starter pack of French-to-English literary translators (to be updated as more people make the move over to this platform)! Let us know in the replies if you'd like to be added. #translation go.bsky.app/iBAJC2

Decoding a corker of a source text mystery on the FELT Discord + Slack today, so come and chime in if you like a puzzle!

🎉 The 2026 Sarah Maguire Prize is now open! 🎉 £1,500 is awarded to the winning poet and £1,500 to the winning translator (or shared if there is more than one translator). The Judges for this year's prize are Mona Kareem (Chair), Leo Boix, and André Naffis-Sahely. Full info: buff.ly/is0luTO

Someone just asked me about getting started as a literary translator and I realized I already have kind of a starter pack of content to help emerging translators. First, how to get rights to a book you want to translate: TikTok: vt.tiktok.com/ZSkN9B67w/ Reel: www.instagram.com/reel/CtYkiwh...

We're SO close to meeting our fundraising target to fund a place at the @bcltuea.bsky.social Literary Translation Summer School this year. Help us get there if you can via our Kofi page: buff.ly/cpUCBhB 💸 Details of the summer school: buff.ly/xNkZkNS Thanks lovely people! 🙏

The FELT Discord server is now live 👾! Request your invite via our website. www.felttranslators.wordpress.com

There's still time to submit to the Stevns Translation Prize! The package includes mentorship, a French farmhouse retreat, and a deal with both Two Lines Press and Peirene Press. More details here: www.stevnstranslationprize.com

Now that's what we call a prize package 🤩. Bravo to Two Lines and Peirene for ticking every box on an emerging translator's wishlist, including childcare-conscious residency arrangements and royalties on publication! ✅

It's official: FELT is moving to Discord! After researching and talking to members, it's clear that Discord will be a better home for the community long-term. Members, keep an eye out for your invite link once the server goes live!

Literary translator pals: if you have published a translation, or are seeking a publisher for a translation, make a video of yourself reading a short extract and submit it! #xl8 🌐

We’re pleased to share two online workshops tutored by our 2024/25 Translator-in-Residence, Sawad Hussain, @sawadhussain.bsky.social Pitching Your Translation: Thursday, 20 February, 7-9pm BST Writing Your Translator’s Note: Thursday, 6 March, 7-9pm BST www.wasafiri.org/news-and-eve...

Grants for literary translators @wwborders.bsky.social wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Call for Submissions: The Offing's Translation Editors are seeking translated works of prose! We accept work no longer than 7,500 words. Additional guidelines for submitting can be found here: theoffingmag.submittable.com/submit

Join me online on January 28 for a conversation with Edwige Renée Dro, Ruth Bush, Ray Ndebi, and Sarah Ardizzone! We'll be talking about Francophone literature in Africa, or at least everything on the topic we can fit into one hour. (Easy, right? 😅)

Seriously considering moving FELT (@felttranslators.bsky.social) over from Slack to Discord now that Slack will be deleting content over a year old, especially now I've discovered you can transfer your archive over. Thoughts for or against very welcome!

To kick off the Society of Authors’ 2025 events calendar, and to celebrate the 60 anniversary of the Scott Moncrieff prize in the run-up to our annual Translation Prizes, we're launching a special French Week of events. - societyofauthors.org/2025/01/08/s...

Check out our new starter pack of French-to-English literary translators (to be updated as more people make the move over to this platform)! Let us know in the replies if you'd like to be added. #translation go.bsky.app/iBAJC2

We've added ten more just today, including international presses and magazines that focus on global lit! go.bsky.app/RPkPdAM

Fyi for any #poetry #translators, Graywolf Press is open for submissions, this week only. More details here: graywolfpress.submittable.com/submit/30453... (I am not involved, just sharing the opportunity.) #xl8 #poetrytranslation #cfs #amtranslating

Two Lines is looking for translations of short stories about ghosts from around the world for an anthology. Nov 18 deadline. 2,000-10,000 words. More details: www.catranslation.org/books/submit... (I am not involved, just sharing for those who might be interested.) #xl8 #translator #cfs

Hope everyone attending #BristolTranslates this week has had a brilliant time! We've already had a few new sign-ups by attendees and would love to welcome any more FR–EN translators keen to keep collaborating 🙌

An immensely useful and empowering resource! Great to see FELT mentioned. "There is power in the collective" 💪🔥 #Translation

Hey, translator friends! I just created a translation feed for us all! To be included, use any hashtag starting with #transla (such as #translate, #translator, #translating, or #translation), starting with #LiteraryTransla (such as #LiteraryTranslator), or #AmTranslating. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Are there any French-to-English literary translators we're not following on here yet? @ them in the replies so we can spread the love 💖. #LiteraryTranslation

I spent International Translation Day with colleagues from around the Midwest and presented a session on practical advice for emerging literary translators. My handouts (resource links and a lit mag submissions tracking template) are now available to anyone interested: lnlanguage.com/resources-fo...

FELT has landed on Bluesky! We're a friendly international community of French-to-English literary translators who hang out on Slack. Literary translators at all career stages (aspiring, emerging, established, over it) are very welcome! Grab your invite at felttranslators.wordpress.com ✉️✨