Back in Berlin, I was unleashed in Dussmann Friedrichstraße for several hours unattended 📚📚📚

See you in Ruissalo on 20-21 August? It’s a gorgeous, gorgeous setting and a good bookend to your summer, which I hope starts soon. Much easier to take a proper break when you know you can start writing again together. #writingretreat

Word formatting — dystopia or utopia? Either way, it feels like the end times… #amediting

Johan, you make Eurovision much more fun!

The view from the ferry between Finland and Sweden — and the view from the chair of Nordic #Editors and #Translators as I hand over the post after a NEaT few years.

Facilitating a #writingretreat is a bit like hosting a party for bookish types like me. We need lots of quiet time to write between bursts of conversation… and I’ve been talking to new caterers for this one on 21-22 May. Hope you can join us on my island in #Päijänne to write together!

Today’s #stetwalk in the middle of a lovely online #writingretreat for @tohtoriverkosto-ry.bsky.social. Oli ihana nähdä teitä ja kirjottaa yhdessä!

Write in the light! Join us for our next retreat 23-24 April at Valo Helsinki 💛📝 www.eventbrite.fi/e/write-in-t...

for mother’s day, read this app.thestorygraph.com/books/85fe5f...

Sopiva alku! t. junasta 📕 🚂 @viljatuulia.bsky.social

Note, like thesis, arsis pluralizes with an ”e”. Your author’s poetic analyses have not taken a vulgar about-turn, even when four arses pop up in a sentence. You’re welcome #amediting www.britannica.com/art/arsis

Helmikuu — the pearl of months #stetwalk

You know it’s going to be a fun #xl8 week when the first thing you have to search is names of parts of a sword (#archeology museum, since you asked, and yes we do already have objects for “possible religious or ritual use”)

Well it’s a winter wonderland now alright. Photo taken this morning. Still time to join us for two days of writing jn Säynätsalo Town Hall 22-23.1. Booking closes next week www.eventbrite.fi/e/writing-in... #writingtretreat

Joulu on (parvekkeen) ovella

‘I often think that the first dictionary a child in Gaza carries is invisible and heavy. Before they learn the names of distant animals or the months of the year, they learn to point at the sky and say زنانة “drone.”’

Still not sure what a certain person (you included) might want for Christmas? How about two whole days writing with a dozen other lovely people, in a winter wonderland? Book now for 22-23.1. #writingretreat on my home island 📝💛☃️

Just finished another lovely #writingretreat at Valo Helsinki. As we finished up, the Christmas decorations went up. The energy of a dozen women in a room, all writing, is amazing!

The shortlist for Oxford Word of the Year 2025 is here! 🥳 Which word do you think defined the year? Vote now to have your say: oxford.ly/3Xc0ypJ #OxfordWOTY

Trans Day of Remembrance was yesterday, when my review of this fascinating book on early #trans history was published by the Friends of #QueerHistory. Coming soon, there’ll be a Finnish translation (of the review, could you translate the whole book?) sateenkaarihistoria.fi/trans-histor...

Next #bookclub is 16 Dec, back at Villa Rana with Polish scifi and we will choose books for the new year. Dear people of #Jyväskylä, do join us! As ever we read in any language and discuss in English. www.villarana.fi/tapahtuma/th...

I throughly enjoyed this over breakfast (in Finland) and might use it for an eVent* with NEaT.🗡️ How do we get dagger symbols on our phones without resorting to emojis? * electronic vent, an online video conversation 🗡️Nordic Editors and Translators

Two days of online writing retreat with @tohtoriverkosto-ry.bsky.social just ended and even my potplants are thrilled. Kiitos kaikki kanssakirjoittajat yhteisöllisyydestä, kuten aina, oli ilo ohjata!

Where do you write best? Here are some of my favourite #writingretreat venues. Let me know where and when you want to write together next year #writingcommunity ridgewritingretreats.com/2025/11/05/w...

Yesterday’s #stetwalk @3:30 pm. A ray of light entered my office on a grey day that reminded me of Frodo and Sam’s last leg to Mordor. Going outside was worth it!

Back from the Helsinki book fair with my stash. November, do your worst, I’m armed and ready! It was fab to catch up with colleagues and friends, agents and authors on the FILI fellowship for translators from Finnish. #helsinginkirjamessut2025 #booksky #xl8

Anna Fiteni examines the influence of Welsh culture on Fleetwood Mac, Lord of the Rings, Hayao Miyazaki, and so much more.

The calm before the Helsinki book fair. On the train south…

It’s way too early for a Christmas tree pic, right? You might be (almost) on your autumn break and watching the leaves fall. But 7 weeks today, I’ll be on the train to our Write up to Christmas retreat at Valo Helsinki. See you there? Book here #writingretreat www.eventbrite.com/e/1106312082...

Yesterday’s #stetwalk 🍁🧡💛💙

Turn one book into another by working through a third book — it sounds like a magic spell, but it might work! #writingcommunity ridgewritingretreats.com/2025/10/01/f...

”Mingälainen kalan-saalis teillä oli tänä kewännä[?]” Tämä juttu ilahdutti suuresti, kiitos Kotus. Ollaan ”aina” olleet täällä, me S2, S3, S4, S5 -ihmiset… kotus.fi/suomea-toise...

About to fly back to Finland after ten days in the UK for the excellent @the-ciep.bsky.social conference and catching up with loved ones — some of whom live round the corner from David Bowie… it was wonderful to see people and to be home, now off to the other home.

Today’s online #writingretreat is super productive, I can’t wait for the next in person one! Join us at Unity Tampere on 24-25 Sept? www.eventbrite.fi/e/write-into...

🦹‍♀️ when your author thanks you for your edit with this superhero emoji because you got their text 6 words under the limit 💖 #amediting dear colleagues you knew we had superpowers, right?

#writing in the #library today

You can’t edit a blank page now, can you? ✍🏼

Write on Wednesdays restarts today at 9:30! 🤗📝💛 If you’d like to join to write for an hour, message me about getting the link. Don’t forget to book for our next #writingretreat in Tampere on 25-26.9. Ask me about scholarships. www.eventbrite.com/e/1106302463...

One of my least favourite #Finnish phrases ”vielä on kesä jäljellä” which means there’s still a bit of #summer left. People start saying/singing it around now. First day back at work today after a month offline, but summer swimming here — and sun CONTINUES

Let the summer holidays begin!

How are you reclaiming your brain this summer? #writingcommunity #digitaldetox

That feeling when you #translated someone’s certificates so they can apply for a degree course and they write back to say they got in! 🥰

@utu.fi yliopiston Suomen historian professori Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen kirjoittaa @turunsanomat.fi kolumnissaan erittäin tärkeästä aiheesta "tutkimusta tukeva infra uhkaa kuivua kokoon" Turussa Koska kolumni on maksumuurin takana, alla ketju keskeisestä sisällöstä www.ts.fi/puheenvuorot...

Tervetuloa! Tämä on nyt toinen kerta!

Join us for @itigernet.bsky.social book club on 13 June — have you read this Schlink yet?

Writers don’t always ask their editors what they think — @harmaathinking.bsky.social did. I hugely enjoyed exploring linguistic (in)directions with you! ridgewritingretreats.com/2025/05/07/l...

Having a slightly out-of-body experience in a café where I’m somatically certain of every single lyric and every single key change to every single track… because the music is three decades old. The baristas look the age I was then. I intend to embrace it.

Denmark says "Post-editing of machine translated books should not be called translation."

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

@archumanities.bsky.social made this lovely book open access, but it’s even more lovely for this translator to have hold a paper copy in her hands. Thoughtfully it arrived to coordinate with the spring flowers, which are still blooming…hope you find it as interesting to read as I did to #translate