In advance of this -- if any of my fellow translators have some favourite reviews, which you think deal with translation particularly well, I'd love to see them!

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Oh no, what a shame.

We need this in Scotland. It’s not even wishful or fanciful thinking: it’s financially astute. Our creative industries are absolutely vital

I'm really looking forward to this, do come along!

What a fantastic event! @bcltuea.bsky.social @annierutherford.bsky.social @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social

Sent a digital publisher's catalogue. In it, a special anniversary edition of a beloved book. They *boast* it's a new translation. Nowhere in the copy do they mention who translated. I zoom in on jacket. Nothing. I look down at writer bio, only the original author. VALUE TRANSLATORS, PEOPLE.

Join @annierutherford.bsky.social for 'Reviewing Translations: Making the Translator Visible' ONLINE on Wednesday 22 October 📚 ✨ Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c... In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social

Join @annierutherford.bsky.social for 'Reviewing Translations: Making the Translator Visible' ONLINE on Wednesday 22 October 📚 ✨ Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c... In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social

Interesting conversation between @annierutherford.bsky.social and Paul Russell Garrett discussing how their #translation and translation-adjacent income breaks down, by activity, genre, etc. www.newwriting.net/2025/09/tapa... #xl8 #freelance #literaryTranslation #poetry #worldkidlit

My brilliant friend!

Loved this performance at the Loud Poets Showcase last month!

🚨BREAKING: MPs have just voted for cuts to social security - with unwritten promises from the UK Government This is reckless. Disability rights aren’t optional. Poverty is a political choice. This Govt chose it tonight. We'll keep fighting until this cruel Bill is rejected completely.

The *reason* Ai-generated text contains semicolons, en dashes etc. is that experienced, skilful writers use these marks to subtly convey meaning and nuance in their work. And the Ai LLMs have been trained on the stolen work of experienced, skilful writers.

This. Yesterday, today and tomorrow.

So proud of @catmitchell17.bsky.social and @pennyauthor.bsky.social for making a #Disability focus issue of @thebookseller.com happen after 3 years hiatus. So heartening to see such brilliant books by disabled, D/deaf, neurodivergent writers being published across genres, as in my preview. #BookSky

⏰️Deadline this Friday We’re on the lookout for a part-time Production Coordinator to help bring our programmes to life at GWL! This is a unique opportunity to work at the heart of our creative & inclusive feminist space 🔅 10 hrs/week 🔅 £27533 pro rata (actual £7,867) 🔅 Fixed-term until 1 May 2026

There is enough money in this country. We don't have to make cuts. We don't have to invest in one thing at the expense of another. But we do have to make the super-rich and corporations pay their fair share. Our co-director Hannah on @bbc5live.bsky.social this morning 👇

Presidents of English PEN, @peninternational.bsky.social, Wales PEN Cymru, @scottishpen.bsky.social have written to the Prime Minister highlighting grave concerns for colleagues across the OPT and calling for urgent action. Read the letter ⤵️ www.englishpen.org/wp-content/u...

Menschen in/um #Graz - das Rote Kreuz bittet dringend um Blutspenden. Zum Beispiel heute von 16 bis 19 Uhr im Jufa Hotel Graz: termine.blut.at/termine/exv8...

We’re thrilled to launch a brand-new opportunity! With support from @ntsonline.bsky.social, we’re commissioning three bold, poetry-led performances responding to our theme: Anthropocene: The Human-Altered World. Full info▶️ pushtheboatout.org/work-with-us/

So you agree? Our work is valuable and your industry can't survive without it? Because that sure as hell sounds like something you need permission and should pay for.

A good read and a reminder that today is the last day to opt out of data scraping on meta products! (Link to do so is here: theaoi.com/news/meta-ai...)

Two Lines Press is excited to open a focused submissions call for translations of literature from Asia and Oceania. We highly encourage submissions of work from less-represented languages and from BIPOC, women, and/or queer authors and translators. www.catranslation.org/books/submit...

Fair is here! Out 29 May ❤️ 💙 💛 Blue original: prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/fair/ Primary colours limited/indie edition: prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/fair...

Would love to have friendly folk in the chat for this!

Really looking forward to this!

Keep doing this, Scotland.

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Join translator-in-residence @annierutherford.bsky.social as she explores how the context in which we are translating impacts upon the translation approach we adopt 📚 Find out more and register: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

📣 Join Paul Russell Garrett & @annierutherford.bsky.social ONLINE as they discuss the insights, challenges & intersections from their work as BCLT translators-in-residence 📣 Find out more and register: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

An incredible book and a fantastic translator!

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Yes - and very much applies to other types of translation too. Just how much are clients willing on compromise on quality? The whole post-editor thing is a cheap shortcut and it shows #xl8

📢 Tickets are NOW LIVE for #Cymera2025 events—such as panels, workshops, agent one-to-ones, live performances and more 📢 There are a variety of in-person and digital events to choose from, plus livestream tickets for our in-person panels: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera25-eve...

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Words To Live By Number 216

thank god for Josie Giles

To my trans niece, whom I love, to my trans friends, whom I love, to all the gorgeous trans people who read my books and come to my events, I can only say that my love doesn't cease, neither does my voice.

No trans people were consulted on this decision that only affects trans people. In fact trans people were actively barred from consulting on this decision that only affects trans people. But transphobic bigots? Oh they got consulted for days. Fucking grim. I'm absolutely fuming.

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‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’

So excited to share this collaborative project with @annierutherford.bsky.social and Anneke Lubkowitz bringing together Dorothy Wordsworth and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. It's got poetry, it's got letters, its in Eng & German, its a game & audio & writing prompts & more! queerypoints.wordpress.com

“There is this terrible misconception that disabled people just take, but actually by taking from us, you prevent us from being able to give – we want to be able to participate in life equally the same as anyone else, and that includes going to work.” Disability campaigner Tanni Gray-Thompson

Okay yes, there are people self diagnosing. And yes, there are mental health patients on benefits. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME PEOPLE! You can’t get benefits on a self diagnosis, hell, you can’t even get benefits off a doctor’s diagnosis without the DWP inquisition! This is complete fiction.

Visiting Fellowships call for University of East Anglia’s archive of contemporary writing: poetry, fiction, nature writing, scriptwriting children’s literature and more. Deadline: end of March. Please share! And if you’re interested in applying, let me know. www.uea.ac.uk/research/res...

"It's important when translating to integrate the source culture into the English language, not to assimilate it" -- @yanaellis.bsky.social at the launch of The Wolves of Staro Selo

Speakers at events: this is your regularly scheduled PSA that using the microphone provided is an access thing! Any time you say "I don't need the mic, do I?" you're asking people with hearing or auditory processing issues to identify and advocate for themselves in front of a whole crowd of people.