📢 Translators, you too can join the @alcs.co.uk and get paid for having your books checked out of the library. A lifetime membership costs just £36. They take it out of your first payment, so you don’t pay a penny up front. Since I joined in 2020, I have received £515.45! What are you waiting for?

Bones esperiencies na Fiesta de las Lhénguas esti finde na Tierra de Miranda #oficialidá

I wrote about this derelict pub for the 8th edition of Science & Magic, Violette's newsletter. There are lots of great pieces of writing in the newsletter. You can read the current edition here and read the archived editions too. Subscribe! www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...

Join us for an online People's Papers research project workshop to learn about the history of 1970s alternative newspapers, their archival preservation & their continued relevance for today. All welcome! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archiving-...

"I admire traitors, heretics, skeptics, bitches, mystics, humans designated as abnormal, people who refuse the terms we are given, minds that stay unsettled . . . " — @alinaetc.bsky.social

Starmer x Trump just busy making sure the UK is as complicit with genocide as it can be.

Lo dice una chavala: "Es como pedir que seamos neutros respecto al Holocausto". Y otras dicen cosas igual de inapelables: "¿Y qué hacemos? ¿Quitamos el listado de los niños que han muerto? Esto es una cuestión de humanidad". Hay que seguir: #FreePalestine www.eldiario.es/sociedad/ado...

Emissions equivalent to about 500 short-haul flights a week 😑 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/15/google-datacentre-kent-co2-thurrock-uk-ai

Had a great time at @desperatelit.bsky.social recommending some books I feel share a kinship with Anna Lidia Vega Serova's Anima Fatua (albeit a kinship of the weird/inscrutable sort that maybe only exists in my mind, but surely that's the best kind anyway...) www.instagram.com/p/DOi_IoSDMf3/

Come along next month to celebrate the launch of What Remains, our latest title in translation. We are hitting the road with author Brais Lamela and translator Jacob Rogers, and we are Cork and Dublin bound!

Arthur Sze has been named the new U.S. poet laureate. He succeeds Ada Limón, who has held the position since 2022. During his term as poet laureate, Sze plans to have a special focus on translating poetry originally written in other languages. Read more: at.pw.org/ArthurSze

Voting for the Society of Authors Management Committee elections is NOW OPEN until Wednesday 22 October! 🗳️ Here's some more info on the four amazing candidates Fossil Free Books organisers have decided to collectively endorse 👉

Had a great time at @desperatelit.bsky.social recommending some books I feel share a kinship with Anna Lidia Vega Serova's Anima Fatua (albeit a kinship of the weird/inscrutable sort that maybe only exists in my mind, but surely that's the best kind anyway...) www.instagram.com/p/DOi_IoSDMf3/

🗺️XIXÓN SORPRENDENTE: 🗓️ 26 de septiembre, 17h 📍La Escalerona ¿Te animas a descubrir el lado más sorprendente de Xixón? Toda la información en: laboralcentrodearte.org/es/actividad... @davidalonsomed.bsky.social

Cada cual escoge en qué parte de la historia quiere situarse, y Madrid se situó en la parte más digna

Esto ha pasado en Sol en cuanto se ha ido la policía al minuto de q se anunciara la cancelación de la vuelta

Vamos! 🇵🇸🔥✊🏽 Son asquerosos las llamadas a una protesta en "tranquilidad" y "normalidad" mientras masacran a un pueblo. Hay que echar al equipo de Israel de la Vuelta por blanquear el genocidio. Mañana lo vamos a hacer, Madrid! www.elsaltodiario.com/genocidio/pr...

ATENCIÓN ESPAÑA 📌 Si les preocupan como a nosotros los impactos ecosociales de los Centros de Datos, aquí hay una buena oportunidad para influir en la redacción de la 1ra ley sobre el tema. Plazo para enviar alegaciones: este lunes 15/9. INFO + instrucciones: tunubesecamirio.com/2025/09/11/s...

PRESENTACIÓN, LA: sust. Aición y efeutu de presentar. #asturianu

VOTE JEN!

I’m very proud to be running to be elected to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors. You can read my full statement here: jencalleja.com/writing/

Today!

¡Gracias! (Ruborizándome) This one was actually first published in Spanish in this anthology from Hiperión. #poesía #sextina

I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...

PRIVATIZAR MATA

If you're knocking about in London tomorrow, there'll be signed copies of Anna Lidia Vega Serova's Anima Fatua on sale at the Pushkin House Bookshop stand, and a load of other brilliant bookshops and publishers at the Multicultural Book Fair at Conway Hall

We’re thrilled to announce the winning titles for the inaugural round of #PENPresents x International Booker Prize, an edition of the English PEN award for sample translations, launched with the @thebookerprizes.com to support translators from the Global Majority. www.englishpen.org/posts/news/i...

This is a phenomenal book that everyone should read!

Aww, this makes my heart so full! JELLYFISH HAVE NO EARS has been longlisted for @littranslate.bsky.social's National Translation Award! literarytranslators.org/awards/2025-...

🔥 4 octubre 18h, GRAN MANIFESTACIÓN POR PALESTINA en Madrid 📣 Exigimos el FIN AL COMERCIO DE ARMAS Y A LAS RELACIONES CON ISRAEL, medidas imprescindibles para acabar con la participación española en el colonialismo, el apartheid, la ocupación y el genocidio israelíes en 🇵🇸 #Stop2AñosDeGenocidio

📢L'Academia de la Llingua Asturiana anuncia Noyos, el primer cursu d'asturianu p'adultos empobináu a xente que quiera algamar un nivel elemental (A1-A2) del idioma.

Novedá editorial de Cierva y Culiebra onde recueyen un cuentu míu con un aquel diabólicu pero sobre too testos insólitos d'époques varies y un par de pieces de Xuan Bello. Munches gracies @fatalmartinez.bsky.social y norabona.

Se ANULA la llegada a la meta en la Vuelta en Bilbao. Se tomarán los tiempos 3km antes. La recta de meta hace un rato.

Just one month to go until What Remains publication day !

Proud to be a mentor for ALTA/SALT's 2026 Emerging Translator Mentorship Program, for a translator of children's literature working from any South Asian language into English (based anywhere in the world). #xl8 #worldkidlit #kidlit #kidlituk #booksky

Sending out the last ARCs soon - only 9 weeks until What Remains hits the shelves! Available for pre-order now via our website.

Un río de esperanza para llegar al mar de Gaza y romper el bloqueo 🇵🇸🇵🇸⛵️⛵️ #GlobalSumudFlotilla #FreePalestine

Todo a punto para que zarpe la Global Sumud Flotilla desde Barcelona, donde se han concentrado decenas de activistas de diferentes rincones del territorio. Está previsto que los barcos, casi una treintena, salgan sobre las 15.00. 📸Fotos de @aminguito.bsky.social

last few days to submit your work ... Deadlines: Experimental 01/09 Fiction 31/08 Essays 02/09 all details here: oleada.io/publication/...

Also particularly excited to spread the word about a new Kurdish publishing house, Henar Press, henarpress.org, which also has this Kurdish Literary Database (henarpress.org/database) of Kurdish works in English translated from Sorani Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic, Kurmanji, German, Farsi, & more.

Important that we recognize the work of translators. They do so much to bring books into other languages, including pitching books and advocating for writers' work. Without wishing to nag, I hope people agree that it's important to #namethetranslator when posting here about translated work.

Día especial para mucha buena gente. Hoy Europa se da el lujo de visitar Vallecas.

You knowe how yn legendes someone doth fynde a cursed sworde that bringeth ruin upon them but thei do not cast it asyde by cause *part of the curse* ys that thei believe it ys a powirful magic sworde? Anywaye, Gen AI...

Interested in contemporary Croatian poetry? Then these #witmonth picks are for you. Collectively, Monika Herceg, Sibila Petlevski, Marija Dejanović, and Ivana Bodrožić have earned widespread critical acclaim and won numerous international prizes for their work.

Women in Translation Month Special! ⚡ Read an exclusive extract from Yoko Tawada's first collection translated into English — EXOPHONY: VOYAGES OUTSIDE THE MOTHER TONGUE. Translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda and out now with Dialogue Books. www.wasafiri.org/content/excl...

We're thrilled to introduce Jacob Rogers, the brilliant translator behind our next book What Remains. Translating from Galician and Spanish, Rogers has championed Galician literature through curated features for publications such as Asymptote and @wwborders.bsky.social borders.bsky.social

"For the speaker, it is imagination that is the oasis, a safe place to work things out." Brilliant review of Charles Lang's debut poetry collection 'The Oasis' by Julie Laing in the latest issue of @gutter.bsky.social

It's really fucked up the news media at large is searching so hard for humanity in machines, while systematically denying humanity to Palestinians, trans people, immigrants, and other persecuted people