🔸Please support this beautiful project by pre-ordering a copy of #TamilTerrains 🔸join us on Sunday, Oct 19: 11am-1pm EST— for a global online reading. (details nxt week)

More than 20 independent publishing houses – including Bluemoose Books, Tilted Axis Press and Influx Press – have written an open letter calling for the trade to “work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses” as they face an “existential crisis” 👇

Last night’s Poetry in the Library event yielded lovely Q & A. Every q. was thoughtful, thk you all! The fab Phương Anh from Tilted Axis was there to support ANNAH— pls attend their hybrid fundraiser for Palestine SUN, also a book launch & trilingual reading: www.outsavvy.com/event/30035/...

Full details & protest guide. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Happy 80th Vietnamese Independence Day and another fundraiser for P@lest1ne :)

An Việt Archives is back with another Vietnamese translation workshop series! No prior knowledge of Vietnamese is required, an English guide translation will be provided :) For more info & to sign up: www.eventbrite.com/e/well-settl...

New in my inbox for July & August 💙📚

Last call to celebrate our issue “Untethered States: Literature of the Vietnamese Diaspora” at our virtual launch TONIGHT featuring readers, writers, translators, and critics from the issue @phuonganh.bsky.social ! Make sure to RSVP at the link:

In “Calculations” by Thuận (tr. @phuonganh.bsky.social ), a young woman leaves her studies in France to return to Vietnam, despite her father’s disapproval. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... (5)

We’re continuing our Vietnamese diaspora issue with this novel excerpt by Thuận. A woman weighs abandoning her studies in France to return to Vietnam, undermining her father’s plan for her career and life. Read "Calculations" (tr. @‌phuonganh.bsky.social ): buff.ly/tbCsBLd

📢 Take Action for Amanda Echanis this International Women’s Day! Unjustly detained since 2020, stand with her this #IWD25 & demand her right to a fair trial today. #FreeAmandaEchanis #InternationalWomensDay 🔗 Take action: pen-international.org/internationa...

Take Action for Amanda Echanis this International Women’s Day! 📢 Unjustly detained since 2020, stand with her this #IWD25 & demand her right to a fair trial today. #FreeAmandaEchanis #InternationalWomensDay 🔗 Take action: www.pen-international.org/news/pen-int...

Today PEN International features Amanda Echanis (Philippines): poet, writer, activist, detained since Dec 2020, when arrested with her 1 month old baby on charges used against ‘red-tagged’ individuals. Write a message to Amanda: bit.ly/4iz6EZB @irishpen.bsky.social @peninternational.bsky.social

My NCW commission piece is up today :) A reflection on the Vietnamese word ‘ám ảnh’, which can be translated into English as ‘to obsess’ or ‘to haunt’. nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/writing-hub/...