Please share and/or consider applying to the Cambridge Amplifying Grant for underrepresented scholars. Applications are due next Monday, April 13. www.cambridge.org/us/universit.... This is a great opportunity!

Windham-Campbell Prize Announces 2026 Recipients #LiteraryAwards www.writingafrica.com/windham-camp...

Strong book.

Excellent review by Silke Heiss of ZamaShort #12 ‘Did You get Married to Her when I was in the Mental Hospital?’ by Abigail George @abigailgeorgepoet.bsky.social. Many thanks Silke! #booksky 💙📚 #poetrylovers #poetrybooks #poetry

The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora (@ucpress.bsky.social)

Reposting this Comparative and World/Global Literature starter pack

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We're a new network of and for people interested in Global South literatures. We want to offer a platform to the general public interested in participating in reading groups, attending talks, and continue learning. Follow us and stay tuned for future events and opportunities starting this summer!

Originally composed at a time of political upheaval, the two poems in “Morning Ceaselessly Roams My Hands,” by Indonesia's Afrizal Malna, capture moments of anxious tenderness of the everyday. Read the poems, translated by Daniel Owen, here:

From one of Colombia’s most innovative modern poets, María Paz Guerrero’s collection PINK TONGUE OUT, BLIND CAT is filled with sinuous verses on the human experience told in a cadence akin to salsa music. Translated by the incomparable Robin Myers!

We're a new network of and for people interested in Global South literatures. Follow us and stay tuned for future events and opportunities starting this summer!

How Bibi-Bakare Yusuf Started a Global Black Publishing Company. rpublc.com/story/2026/0...

Congratulations to Said Khatibi on winning the 2026 International Prize for Arabic Fiction for 'I Resist the River's Course.' (Yes the IPAF organizers are calling it Swimming Against the Tide.) arablit.org/2026/04/09/s...

Read ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR this #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth! In this poetry anthology published by @tracepress.bsky.social and edited by Norah Alkharashi and Yasmine Haj, “language dissolves into cities, landscapes, or portals that open to rubble, or only air.” tracepress.org/en-us/produc...

WWB is hiring for our 2026-27 fellowship program! Working within WWB’s award-winning online education program, WWB Campus, the education fellow will gain hands-on experience with the research and development of curricular resources. DEADLINE: April 17, 2026. wordswithoutborders.org/jobs/

From the article by Sizakele Nkosi of 'Complete Poems' by Isabella Motadinyane, for 'Botsotso', 2021 (revised 2025) For the full article, see Isabella Motadinyane's 'Complete Poems' book page on the Deep South website: 🔑: deepsouth.co.za/product/comp...

In her new book Southern Imagining, @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social uses literary, scientific & cultural material to explore how we look at the world from the south. Out now in the UK/Europe, & available in North America on Feb 10! Read a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Literature

Special issue Journal of World Literature Multilingualisms: Views from the Global South, D. Damrosch and D. Ungureanu (eds) brill.com/view/journal... @asanewsonline.bsky.social @asianstudies.org @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social @themhra.bsky.social

Southern Imagining is out South of the Equator! Has to be one of the best feelings, bringing it t/here! @princetonupress.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social

Join us for a conversation on contemporary African and Afro-diasporic writing with Sulaiman Addonia, Brian Chikwava, Shady Lewis, and Fiston Mwanza Mujila and his translator @rolandglasser.bsky.social – chaired by Irenosen Okojie – at Bard Books in East London.

We're a new network of and for people interested in Global South literatures. Follow us and stay tuned for future events and opportunities starting this summer!