Still floating on this thrilling news - my manuscript has been shortlisted in the @sfwp.bsky.social 2025 Literary Awards!

Call for Applications! Open to translators who are Black, Asian or from Ethnically Diverse backgrounds working from any language into English, especially those connected to diaspora and heritage language communities. nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/writing-hub/...

The book of my life (so far), ANNAH, INFINITE is an escape story. A translation of a painting, in speculative nonfic, poetry & art. Took 14 yrs, &I’m inviting you to love it as I do. Aug 19 UK, Nov 11 US. For reviews/i’views/events: [email protected] www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infini...

New & emerging BIPOC lit translators! Apply for the Building Our Future 2-Day Virtual Workshop, meant to empower lit translators of color as they begin navigating the field. Led by poupeh missaghi & Sawad Hussain, w/ a business talk by Anni Liu. Free to participate! Apply by Monday:

I just made a donation to @wwborders.bsky.social in light of the funding cut. Please donate to them if you can to support the important work that they do publishing literature in translation.

If you're an aspiring translator and don't use gen AI at all, haven't even touched it, and are willing to put in the hard work to learn, feel free to reach out and I'll give you feedback on a short translation or your resume.

Today is a good day, a necessary day to repost this

Time's almost up! Just 4 days remain to submit for the 2025 Armory Square Prize, open to translators working with any South Asian language. See guidelines and submit here: www.armorysv.com/translation-...

Incredible article—final point on how dangerously entwined Wall Street and Silicon Valley have become augurs a spectacular economic disaster on the horizon Also that part about a projected data center using enough electricity to power three million homes 😱 Hope AI fails otherwise humanity is doomed

From Dareumi’s heartfelt bond with a mailbox to an eerie encounter with a shadow-like presence, the line between reality and the unknown blurs for Kim Heejin's protagonist in “By Any Other Name.” Read the story on WWB, translated from Korean by Paige Aniyah Morris: buff.ly/aDq6dzp

📢 Submissions are now open for the 2025 Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation! The prize is open to English translators working with any work in any South Asian language. Learn more and apply here: www.armorysv.com/2025-submiss...

A reminder that the deadline for this is April 1! ‘Any book-length work of narrative prose, fiction, or nonfiction, by a South Asian author (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Maldives or the diaspora) will be eligible.’ #xl8

This sounds amazing, @anamzafar.bsky.social! If you’re in Dublin, check this out! 👀

Paige is one of my favourite translators & writers! This is an excellent read.

📣 Emerging translators, don't miss your chance: Apply to the 2025 ALTA Travel Fellowships! These are $1,000 fellowships awarded to selected emerging translators to help them get to the annual ALTA conference, where they are featured in a special reading. Apply TODAY: alta.submittable.com/submit/

"a collection of stories and essays about us and not them, written by us and not them, translated by us and not them." Shout-out to @clarehannahmary.bsky.social for this @wwborders.bsky.social issue and the work translators are doing on the discourse around disability in the realm of literature. 🌟

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

On WWB, Paige Aniyah Morris contemplates the choice not to explicitly name disability in Kim Heejin’s novel “No Matter How Odd.” Read this essay on representation and style from our issue “Translating Disability”: buff.ly/aIqqHxC

Clare Richards underscores the significance of D/deaf, disabled, and/or neurodivergent writers and translators presenting their community on their own terms. Read the essay, her introduction to our issue “Translating Disability,“ here:

In “The Brightest World I Knew” by Lim Sol-A (tr. @‌clarehannahmary.bsky.social ), a woman’s apartment search in Seoul turns into an act of resistance. Read this story from our new issue “Translating Disability” on WWB: buff.ly/4kbVFXX

I *love* Adèle Rosenfeld's hilarious imagination and biting social critique, and her story THE HEARING-AID BRIGADE was such a treat to translate for @wwborders.bsky.social! wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Read an excerpt from the Booker-nominated "The Book of Disappearance" on WWB: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

In “Translation and Erasure,” Daniela Tiranti reflects on the experience of translating a “disabled love story,” and of standing up for disabled characters during the editorial process. Read the essay: https://buff.ly/43fBodR

Still pinching myself about winning the @penamerica.bsky.social grant for the translation of Italian literature! ✨ 🇮🇹 📚 I’ll be donating part of my grant to Gaza, so if anyone knows of any organisations other than PAL that would benefit, please let me know 🇵🇸 🍉

Fair: The Life-Art of Translation, out 29 May prototypepubs.bsky.social Our 4th book together in 9 years 🩵 Primary colour edition available directly from the Prototype website & indie bookshops for Independent Bookshop Week in June. Pre-order: prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/fair/9

Proud (& excited) to publish this essay by @clarehannahmary.bsky.social, an introduction to our latest collection at @wwborders.bsky.social featuring global writing by disabled writers & translated by disabled translators 🤩

Last call: the deadline to apply to the 2025 Momentum Grant is 2/28. Early-career translators, don't miss your chance!

In her intro to our disability issue, @‌clarehannahmary.bsky.social discusses everyone from Sayaka Murata to Naoise Dolan to the actress Madison Tevlin, blending autobiographical reflection with literary criticism. https://buff.ly/4hSuz6q

Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training. I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.

The Government is siding with big tech over British creativity. Today is the FINAL chance to respond to their consultation on AI and copyright. Let's make sure creators' voices are heard. Guidance below 👇 #MakeItFair #PayTheCreator www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

Presenting the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist. Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025

Warmest congratulations to the longlisted writers & translators, including WWB contributors Ibtisam Azem, Sinan Antoon, Mircea Cărtărescu, Sean Cotter, Julia Sanches, Heather Cleary, Helen Stevenson, Polly Barton, Hiromi Kawakami, Asa Yoneda, Sophie Hughes, & Astrid Roemer!

“Perhaps when a neurotypical reads Convenience Store Woman, they are experiencing what an autistic person feels like reading fiction most of the time—and that’s not a bad thing.” Essential reading for translators and, well, readers in general, by @clarehannahmary.bsky.social

Excited (& nervous) to be sharing this personal essay on translating while neurodivergent, autistic-coding, the search for authentic representation, smiles as social currency, dropping the mask and more. Read the essay here: tinyurl.com/4veu435y

I just called out a student for using AI to write an extended abstract for my class. 3 of the 4 articles she cited are fake. They are by real people, in real journals, and the titles are similar to topics the authors study. But the papers do not exist! It is wild that ChatGPT invents articles.

A poem of mine is in the antho BRING ME GOLD: 50 POEMS FOR PALESTINE, now avail for pre-order. 100% of the proceeds from this book will go to Medical Aid for Palestinians. Pls consider buying it, wld make a great early Eid gift. 🙏🏼 🤍#DisabilityJustice www.dahliapublishing.co.uk/product/poem...

Yes, finally! I've been saying this for at least 10 years. Readers don't care about blurbs and it's a ridiculous waste of time and labor for everyone. (I am curious how the sales department responded, though...) www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Announcement for all early-career translators: submissions to this year’s Momentum Grant, judged by Julia Sanches, are due 2/28! Learn more about eligibility, submissions, and the Momentum Grant for Early-Career Translators: https://buff.ly/3CnAgK5

Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS, by Myeongseok Kang and BTS, translated by Anton Hur (@antonhur.com), Slin Jung, and Clare Richards (@clarehannahmary.bsky.social) Thorough. High quality translations. The QR codes have turned this book into a true multimedia experience!

Collective scream in 1s and 0s.

Most UK lit ppl unaware: - Whether you’ve been shortlisted for/won a prize matters grtly for Global Talent Visa, Indefinite Leave, citizenship apps & - Prizewinners’ path to applying for Indefinite Leave is 2 yrs less than for ‘only’-shortlistees &…

cool, shut it down

UK WRITERS: You need to fill in this consulation. Govt is very clearly looking to an opt-out model of rights licensing that puts all the burden on creators instead of profiteers. It's long and boring but this is important. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Thread about fake translator’s names being used to presumably cover up AI translations

My novel TOWARD ETERNITY is one of Geek Girl Authority's 10 best science fiction books of 2024 ✨🪐 "Hur’s first original work combines gods, magic and science into a world rapidly approaching collapse, and I can’t wait to see what else he comes up with."

On Thursday, @annierutherford.bsky.social, Vineet Lal and I will battle it out with the machines to determine who is the better translator. Can't wait to show AI who is boss! @goetheinstitut.bsky.social Glasgow www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ve...

This week should’ve solely been one of celebration of Korea’s first Nobel Prize in Literature, which, as you can imagine, is a once-in-a-lifetime event for a Korean literary translator like me. Well. We may have more cause to celebrate yet. IMPEACH AND ARREST YSY