For the latest issue of the Cita Press Bulletin, we explored 3 writers we want to read in translation, with help from the scholars & translators bringing them back into prominence: Ntšeliseng 'Masechele Khaketla, Na Hye-sŏk, and Albertina Bertha. Learn more: citapress.substack.com/p/there-is-a...

For #womenintranslationmonth, here are 5 new English translations of works by iconic women writers from across the globe🧵 These translations bring new readers to old(er) books and expand our access to the feminist canon. We are grateful to the translators and publishers who made this possible. 📚💙

Award-winning Canadian poet, prose writer, translator, and classicist Anne Carson (b. 1950) on translation. From a 2001 discussion with Brighde Mullin for the Lannan Foundation. Full video 🔗: lannan.org/media/anne-c... #WITMONTH #womenintranslation #WIT 📚💙

🐈WRITERS AND CATS 🐱 Elsa Morante and her cats! Morante’s love for cats crept into her writings such as History: A Novel (translated by William Weaver, 1977) featuring Rossella, the striped orange and red cat! #WITMONTH #womenintranslation #WIT 📚💙

If you are in the San Francisco area, find us at the @litquake.org Small Press Book Fair on September 28! We will also be participating in a panel on October 14; keep a look out for more information!! 📚💙

Find yourself by the water this summer? Here are six different writings on waterways, shorelines, and the critters you might find in their sands or skies. This post is inspired by the scholarship of Susan A.C. Rosen, editor of Shorewords: A Collection of American Women’s Coastal Writings (2003) 📚💙

Polish writer and Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk on how she views literary translators as her co-creators in her work. From a 2019 interview with the Nobel Foundation @nobelprize.bsky.social #womenintranslation #WITMonth 📚💙

“I’m a better translator than any LLM precisely because I haven’t read millions of books…” Cita’s recent Bulletin “...language as a right to being…” features @dsparis.bsky.social on AI and translating Nellie Bly; María Luisa Puga, Pita Amor, Josefina Vicens; Cita Press in person; & more... #WIT 📚💙

We join in highlighting women in translation this month 📚💙 Mizumura’s scholarship focuses on the global dominance of the English language and what it means for global literature as a whole. ⬇️ #WITMonth #WomenInTranslation

Nos complace anunciar la publicación de la nueva traducción al español de Diez días en un manicomio, por Daniel Saldaña París @dsparis.bsky.social para el Cita Press Literary Translation & Technology project. 🔗⬇️ Prólogo: Mikita Brottman Portada y ilustraciones: Dajia Zhou 📚💙 #womenintranslation

🐈WRITERS AND CATS 🐱 Helen Gurley Brown and Samantha Helen Gurley Brown was noted to have loved cats all her life, at times even including her cat’s paw print with her signature 🐾 📚💙

Writer, poet, teacher Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938) speaks about the emotional toll of finishing a novel. In this interview from 1980, just a week before the election of Ronald Reagan, Oates speaks about the influences of political terrorism and discontent as well as her creative process. 📚💙

“…there is nothing more transformative for a person’s discernment than the exercise of inhabiting the language of another…if we renounce the gesture of placing ourselves in the other’s words, we renounce much more than a mode of text production.” @dsparis.bsky.social

"Making things easier is the oft-stated aim of an industry that privileges products over processes, but it is in the process of struggling with difficulties, turning them over in one’s mind for days, that translators transcend the mechanical aspects of their work to become artists."

PRE-FESTIVAL AMUSE-BOUCHE PT IV: Small Press Book Fair🤩 We're so excited to revive the Small Press Book Fair at Yerba Buena Gardens. Come browse the best in local literature set to a day of poetry readings from Litquake Out Loud. FREE! 📅Sep 28, 11–4 ➡️Participating vendors: bit.ly/44P1jJN

Read @dsparis.bsky.social's new essay “Translation, A.I. and the Political Weight of Words,” trans. by Christina MacSweeney, in Asymptote’s new issue: “What A.I. Can’t Do.”🔗⬇️ Illustration by Daija Zhou for Cita’s (free!) edition of Ten Days in a Mad-House/Diez días en un manicomio by Nellie Bly 📚💙

Writer Minae Mizumura (b. 1951) on the importance of literature. Mizumura moved to the United States as a child. She moved back to Japan after her graduate study, where she achieved her long held goal to write literature in Japanese. #WomenInTranslation 📚💙

🐈WRITERS AND CATS 🐱 Elsa Gidlow and her cats “I have learned much from my cat friends, been encouraged and inspired by their gentle-to-fierce resources for survival. It is the same spirit in women that men through the ages have tried to tame, to conquer” - Gidlow, "Elsa, I Came with My Songs" 📚💙

A small sample of publications that brought words and design together to build community, spread, knowledge, and promote art in the face of mainstream silence.🧵⬇️ 📚💙

Virginia Woolf on life – and what a novelist is trying to capture about the human experience, in the essay “Modern Fiction” (first published in 1919). Stay tuned for exciting news related to Woolf x Cita Press!! 📚💙

🐈WRITERS AND THEIR CATS 🐱 Alice Walker and Frida “When it is bedtime I pick her up, cuddle her, whisper what a sweet creature she is, how beautiful and wonderful, how lucky I am to have her in my life and that I will love her always.” - Walker, in On Cats: An Anthology 📚💙

Our Newsletter promotes women writers and new aspects of the network of literary recovery every month! Some of recent newsletters have highlighted the legacy, communities, and relationships that constellate Cita’s work. 🔗: citapress.substack.com 📚💙

This year the home of Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964), Andalusia Farm, has been celebrating O’Connor’s 100th birthday with special events that highlight, among other things, the peacock imagery the author embraced. 🧵 📚💙

What she said reminds me of how hard a time I have answering direct questions about my feelings. I always have the urge to tell a story, because the answer is in it. I have to go the long way round, nearly always. A poem can be more succinct but it's still that quality of indirect approach.

One of my favorite Audre Lorde stories is that as a child she changed her first name — dropping the "y" — because she wanted all of the letters to stay above the lines in her notebook, not below them.

🐈WRITERS AND THEIR CATS 🐱 Margaret Atwood and Fluffy “Writers and their cats–it’s a theme…They interview well, projecting a mysterious aura while giving away exactly nothing.” - Atwood, “Introduction” for On Cats: An Anthology 📚💙

Cartoonist and author Alison Bechdel, @alisonbechdel.bsky.social, answers the question “Who is a writer?” for the series “Writers on the Fly” by Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature and Humanities Iowa in 2010. Bechdel's latest book, Spent: A Comic Novel, came out in May 2025. 📚💙

From Frances Ellen Watkin Harper’s speech to the Eleventh National Women’s Rights Convention. Harper calls for white women to support African American suffrage alongside women’s suffrage. She later founded the National Association for Colored Women in 1896. 📚💙

Women Resisting Violence, a powerful book about the ways in which women confront and resist various forms of gender-based violence, is now available in Spanish 🔗 Its intersectional perspective reveals how gender violence is closely related to socioeconomic status, race, and sexual identity. 📚💙

From the “Sword Blades and Poppy Seed,” the title poem from Amy Lowell’s 1914 collection. Despite the disdain of some big-name gatekeepers in the world of poetry, Amy Lowell’s poetry was extremely popular during her lifetime. Her legacy as a poet and an advocate for poetry is growing once again 📚💙

“According to Audre Lorde, when she finally began to speak at five years old, she only spoke in poetry.” Alexis Pauline Gumbs, @alexispauline.bsky.social, reads from her book, Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, at the New York Public Library in September 2024. 📚💙

🐈WRITERS AND THEIR CATS 🐱 Ursula K. Le Guin and Pard "His paws are white, his ears are black. When he isn’t around I feel the lack. His breed is Alley, his name is Pard. Life without him would be hard." -Le Guin, "Doggerel for a Cat," 2013 📚💙

“Someone will remember us…even in another time” - Sappho, translated by Anne Carson This month’s Cita newsletter highlights the necessity of a queer literary canon by exploring the relationship between Audre Lorde and Angelina Weld Grimké. 📚💙 open.substack.com/pub/citapres...

Check out our @are.na page for a look at some of the research and design sources behind our work! We have channels for our projects (including for Cita translation projects); Feminist Archives and Collections; Copyright Research; Forthcoming Projects; and so much more!📚💙 www.are.na/cita-press/c...

Sui Sin Far/Edith Maude Eaton (1865-1914) on why she speaks (and writes) about complicated or uncomfortable topics. From the 1911 essay “The Persecution and Oppression of Me,” originally published under the byline “By a Half Chinese.” 📚💙

“Nature needs the lesbian as she is, she needs me as I am.” Poet and philosopher Elsa Gidlow (1898-1986) reminds us why #pride is important in this rare audio recording made available by the GLBT Historical Society. 📚💙

🐈 WRITERS AND THEIR CATS 🐱 Toni Morrison and Zora “The cat will always know that he is first in her affections.” - Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye 📚💙

“Speaking of herself, of her world, [Zitkála-Šá] teaches us how to be now.” In her foreword for Planted in a Strange Earth: Selected Writings by Zitkála-Šá, Erin Marie Lynch traces a literary lineage of struggle and oppression.  Cover designed by Mer Young 📚💙

Women authors have historically been underrepresented and underpublicized in the male-dominated, profit-driven publishing industry. Cita highlights and promotes open access books written by women! We make these women writers’ works accessible to all, in free editions 📚💙

"She who is called in China ‘The woman who talks too much’ is called by us ‘The new woman.'” -1896 Sui Sin Far's work challenged popular conceptions of "the New Woman." This WHM, read "The Inferior Woman," "Woo-Ma and I," "The Americanizing of Pau Tsu" & more: citapress.org/an-immortal-...

Read our latest Bulletin to learn about "The Divine Right of Learning," our new free guide to An Immortal Book: Selected Writings by Sui Sin Far. It's for anyone interested in Sui Sin Far, her context(s), & mapping feminist themes in older works. substack.com/home/post/p-...