Freelancers who work for universities, rejoice! Government to make it mandatory for companies to pay supplier invoices within 60 days, or face fines/interest of 8% plus the base rate.

Another great reason to register for the Oxford Translates summer school this year: a keynote by @annmorgan.bsky.social !

📣PUBLISHERS - I'm running a one-day online course in June on working effectively with translators, focusing on project management, timelines and productivity. More details at www.unige.ch/formcont/en/... . Please share with your networks.

We are delighted to invite MFL teachers to attend our 2026 webinar series, organised as part of the Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators competition launch. Come along to learn about the Prize, meet the judges, and try your hand at creative translation from Mandarin! Full details below 🔽

"Machine translation would handle the heavy lifting, and we’d add the expert polish. Except the machine made a mess. And we’re doing expert-level cognitive labour to clean it up for cleaning wages. We’re not mops. We’re translators." #translation #xl8 www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-l...

A very interesting thread about how editors are being asked to step in to fill the stylistic void created by AI-written texts.

Hi to new followers, via the translators starter pack and the ETN discussion! #amtranslating #literarytranslation and #booksky are useful for finding likeminded people too... Let's keep the chat going :)

I’m writing a piece about freelancing in the publishing industry/creative industries. ✍️ If you’re not a freelancer in this sector but you’d maybe like to be, what’s stopping you? If you’d never want to be freelance, how come? If you are freelance, what do you love/hate about it?

Writers! Note that AI translation (under the guise of "global access") is being seen/used as the weak point to get AI into publishing (possible bc Eng lang publishing is weak on translation). Stand with translators & for more human translation, fairly paid!

1 week to go! #Teachers, join Stacie Allan and Ali Al-Jamri for a free webinar on #CreativeTranslation in the English classroom. Perfect preparation for #SSTPoetryPrize2025! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-t... Hosted by @englishassociation.bsky.social #edusky #teamenglish

I wrote this guide to being a better reader: how to read, what to read and why jmarriott.substack.com/p/how-i-read

Thank you to @thetls.bsky.social and Lauren Booker for this lovely, thoughtful assessment of Rachilde and her brilliant novel The Tower of Love in my translation. I'm so glad the reviewer enjoyed the humour as well as the weirdness.

Here's a book to get excited about!

✨ Meet the workshop leader✨ With decades of experience in translation and teaching, @clarissabotsford.bsky.social has translated works by authors like Viola Ardone, Elvira Dones, and Alessandro Baricco. Find out more and apply: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

Come and join us at @uclssees.bsky.social on 6 May as we launch Nicol Hochholczerová's book and kick off her UK tour. If you miss us there, you can also catch Nicol in Oxford on 7 and 8 May, Crickhowell, Cardiff, Hay over the weekend, at Translated By, Bristol on 13 May and again in London on 15 May

Very happy to see my new translation of The Tower of Love by Rachilde out in the wild and in very good company in the Albertine bookshop in New York @wakefieldpress.bsky.social

"What distinguishes translation is the way translators read, a close reading that engages deeply with a language’s structure." #translation #xl8 #literarytranslation

Member of the @societyofauthors.bsky.social? Read The Author? The SoA want to know what you think of the magazine and whether you'd prefer print/digital/both: www.surveymonkey.com/r/QFHJ262

1/ If the Government goes ahead with its proposals on AI, it will give tech companies the ability "to take what they like, when they like, without informing or compensating the writers of the work they use to train their models," says WGGB President Sandi Toksvig writersguild.org.uk/copyright-ai/

Announcing the Translation Prizes 2024 winners. Ten translators and one editor are awarded prizes for translating from eight languages, and along with the runners-up, share a prize fund of £30,000. See the full list of winners here: authr.uk/TPWinners24 #TranslationPrizes

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...

Grab a cuppa and get to know French translator, Vineet Lal. Vineet will be in conversation with American-British novelist,  tracychevalier.bsky.social to discuss his work and career and to offer a glimpse into his creative routine. Free for all - societyofauthors.org/event/french...

This looks like my current draft 😭

New books are in hand in most untimely fashion: the spiraling spatial symbolism of Dr. Mises and the symbolist sexual psychosis of Rachilde. wakefieldpress.com/products/sta... wakefieldpress.com/products/the...

Two free events coming up in Oxford from the Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social in February - a translation slam with Lawrence Schimel and Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci, with a symposium on teaching feminist translation. feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2024/07/even...

Book your free tickets now for the next #FeministTranslationNetwork events! Don't miss our translation slam with Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci and @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social, chaired by Gabriela Saldanha, Thurs 6 Feb, 5-6.30pm, Queen's College, Oxford, and online: www.ticketsource.co.uk/queens-trans...

Announcing the Translation Prizes 2024 shortlists 41 shortlisted books, eight prizes, 12 languages - over £30,000 awarded. See the full shortlists here: authr.uk/TP24 Shop the shortlists - uk.bookshop.org/lists/transl... #TranslationPrizes

A bumper crop in my translated fiction roundup for @theguardian.com. A private eye who's too fat to escape through windows; a book whose only failing is there isn't more of it; and a late entry—funny, surprising and in parts overwhelming in its emotional force—for one of the best novels of the year.

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

Calling all translators! We're building a Bluesky starter pack for emerging and established translators—so that we can follow each other and be in community together on the World Wide Web. If you want to be included, add yourself to this thread, and share this post far and wide with your networks :)

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Translator: The cup is half full/half empty/partially filled/semi full/half drunk (?check?)/mostly gone [FIX IN NEXT DRAFT]

We’re delighted to announce that the winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2024 is Revelation Freshly Erupting, by Nelly Sachs, translated from German (Germany) by Andrew Shanks and published by @carcanet.bsky.social.

PEN Presents @englishpen.bsky.social and the International @thebookerprizes.bsky.social have joined forces to support emerging translators

Tonight in Margate! I’ll be at the Fort Road Hotel chatting with The Margate Bookshop! Last Goblinhood event of the year, FREE, see you there! (Me earlier this morning ‘under-goblin’)

Kotryna Garanasvili is giving a free online talk on translating dialect! Monday 18 November, 13:00-14:00 occt.web.ox.ac.uk/event/discus...

Thank you to @racheltranslates.bsky.social for making this brilliant list of translators on here!