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

O Canada! 🍁 ❤️

What’s the difference between book coaching and editing? In this week’s #EditorsWeekly, Holly Vestad and Yuxuan Francis Liu gathered insights from four experts on the book coach’s role: Anne Bokma, Susie Vadori, @dinahlaprairie.bsky.social and @tanyagold.bsky.social blog.editors.ca/we-ask-a-boo...

Happy Sant Jordi aka books, roses and copyright day! This #translator is going to the library to work on a sample with fellow human writers, in her George-and-the-dragon DMs 📚 🌹 🐉 #protecthumancreativity #worldbookday2025 @ceatl.bsky.social

Finally, I’m first in the queue for volume 3! Picked it up today. Readers in English will hace to wait a bit… foundintranslation.me/2025/04/16/o...

Living in dark times, why read about other dark times? To resist? My local book club is reading this, Ros Schwarz’s #translation is fab. If you’re in Jyväskylä, join us (29.4@5pm in Villa Rana café).

Spring in the South (well, Helsinki is nearly 4 h south of where I live). If it’s something you’re entering too, blessed Holy Week, siunattua suurta viikkoa!

@sksfinlit.bsky.social posti Onnetarelta tuli, kiitos!

Tervetuloa Säynätsaloon #kirjoitusretriittiin 8-9.5.! Stipendi on vielä saatavilla.
Come and join us for our next #writingretreat in Säynatsalo on 8-9 May! Book here, we‘d love to see you. The scholarship place is still available. www.eventbrite.fi/e/spring-int...

Back the @societyofauthors.bsky.social. Demand that Meta #DoTheWriteThing and fairly compensate and seek consent for the use of authors' work to train Al

Setting myself up for a day’s writing at Valo Hotel and Work, Helsinki. Our two day #writingretreat starts here

Whatever your role in birthing a book, you'll have heard some of this before, but not all. And it bears repeating…

We surveyed our 12000+ members and authors on the Government’s proposal to change copyright law as part of its consultation on Copyright and AI. We had over 1000 responses. Read our report 👇& #makeitfair for creatives – societyofauthors.org/2025/03/26/s...

@alcs.co.uk thank you! My payment came through today. Here’s to human creators and the people who defend their rights.

Times being what they are, there’s something terribly reassuring about opening up a new book to copyedit and the publisher’s style guide, doing a first pass with @perfectit.bsky.social and imposing the beginnings of order on my own little corner of the chaos…

We welcome the publication of the Public Services Committee report and are pleased to see our concerns about pay and working conditions for public service interpreters have been acknowledged - issues we have long been advocating for. We hope the govt will respond positively to the recommendations.

The @iti-uk.bsky.social German Network #bookclub is now on EventBrite. If you #translate between #english and #german you're not a member of GerNet yet, come and try a meeting, we'd love to see you! Here's our May read, Billie: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/iti-german...

#LBF25 miracle of the day: in a break, I found a chair to sit on. Like Finns who are cagey about their best spots for mushrooming, I may tell you where, but I may take a little persuading… 🍄‍🟫 📚

Never give up! Cartoon by Jackie Fleming Happy #internationalwomensday

Since writing this article, I have received messages from federal civil servants who tell me it is accurate, and that they are frightened. Please share this with anyone who doesn't understand the scale of the transformation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Happy UK #bookday (despite the name,is it a thing today anywhere else?). Today always makes me think of parents, usually mums, organising costumes, so kudos to you. And to my friend’s child who once went as the main character of a book I gave them — I’ve received few higher honours.

Nähdäänkö Valossa 3&4 huhtikuuta? Tule kanssamme #kirjoittamaan! Don't forget to book for our next #writingretreat at Valo Helsinki on 3&4 April!

The @thebookerprizes.bsky.social quiz might be right…

Winter week off is over. Batteries recharged by the power of daily saunas and reading this lot.

Have a great weekend! I’m on a high after our #writingretreat at the Writers’ House in Jyväskylä. What lovely company, thank you all. Hope you can join us next time…

Tiny joys: I spelled “autochthonous” right first time and hadn’t needed to check it. Saying it is something else… I think I’ll have a square of chocolate.

#langsky chain continues — favourite words of the moment in languages I use FI: lohikäärme (🐟 + 🐍 = 🐉 ) PL: ufoludki (“UFO gnome” = 👽) CYM: gŵdihŵ (🦉— ŵ is pronounced “oo”) EN: crone (mood today)

See you on 19 March? If you are doing structured social writing or want to try it, come and find out more from an International #writingcommunity with Writing for Research and Academic Practice (WRAP). Hope you can join us ✍🏼📚 narti.org.uk/event/writin...

Roses are red The sky is blue In Finland it’s friends’ day Happy friends’ day to you 🦋

Hyvää huomenta / good morning in Finnish #signlanguage. It’s Finnish sign languages day today. suvi.viittomat.net/signsearch.p... 🐦🐦

This was an absolute joy to translate — hope you enjoy reading it!

Real books on paper in a bricks-and-mortar bookshop. Silver Moon, we miss you ridgewritingretreats.com/2025/02/05/a...

Can’t wait to read some of these, especially the Chthulucene…