Bay Area: SEA NOW by Eva Meijer is the Black Bird x Same Page Book Club pick for Nov. On Sun. 11/16, join @twolinespress.com Publisher, CJ Evans (@categoryofoutcast.bsky.social) to take part in the book club discussion and hear how the book was acquired and edited. blackbirdsf.com/pages/events...

I’m loving the subscription to @catranslation.org!! Two brand new books with translators’ names on the covers were waiting in the mailbox today 🎉 #WomenInTranslation 📚

Through the mail slot today. The very best of @twolinespress.com @catranslation.org subscriber packages. Loved The Queen of Swords. Looking forward to my first Garro. Love the sticker. ❤️

At ALTA this week? CAT staff are on 3 panels we hope you'll check out. Including: 11/7, 9 am: Translating Afghan Women Poets w/ CJ Evans 11/8, 9 am: Envisioning the Future of Literary Translation w/ Michael Holtmann 11/8, 10:45 am: Collaboration Makes a Patchwork Quilt w/ Olivia Sears

The 2026 Stevns Prize is open for submissions from now until February 1, 2026! www.stevnstranslationprize.com

This sounds fantastic (and the cover is gorgeous): Jazmina Barrera, The Queen of Swords (Christina MacSweeney, trans. @catranslation.org, @twolinespress.com, 2025) www.catranslation.org/shop/book/qu...

TONIGHT (10/29) at 6pm PT/9pm ET join us on Zoom to for a conversation with author Gabriela Alemán to celebrate her new book, SMOKE, a City Lights title! Gabriela will speak with Dick Cluster, who translated the book from Spanish. Presented with our friends at @catranslation.org See you there! 💨

Headed to the ALTA Conference Nov. 5-8? We invite you to share your ideas on the future of literary translation with us. Stop by a CAT-sponsored 10:15-10:45 am beverage break in the Foyers any day of the conference & ask us about our lunchtime roundtables for translators. DM us here with questions!

“SEA NOW is one of several novels that ask how humans live in an apocalypse that isn’t impending but has actually arrived.” Read Rebecca Hussey on Eva Meijer’s SEA NOW (tr. Anne Thompson Melo): buff.ly/ZtpAsrS @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social @catranslation.org @twolinespress.com

Bay Area, So You Think You Can('t) Translate! Join us & @litquake.org TONIGHT 10/25 @ 6:30 pm at 826 Valencia. Guided by JiaJing Liu, show off your skills & maybe learn some new ones while translating poems from around the world. No 2nd language required. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/lit-cr...

Help a cool Oakland indie bookstore, Womb House Books, launch a publishing imprint! They hope to publish at least three new titles a year with room to grow with a focus on feminist works, books in translation, and more. www.kickstarter.com/projects/wom...

Our Calico Series is open for submissions for 🐾 animal stories 🐾 in translation! Open to translations from any language into English, word count between 2k to 10k words, deadline January 15, 2026! Full submission details here: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...

Bay Area, So You Think You Can('t) Translate! Join us & @litquake.org on Oct. 25 @ 6:30 pm at 826 Valencia. Guided by JiaJing Liu, show off your skills & maybe learn some new ones while translating poems from around the world. No 2nd language required. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/lit-cr...

Bay Area! Join us and @litquake.org TONIGHT 10/17 @ 6:30 pm at CounterPulse for a listening party debuting 3 audio lit in translation adaptations.This guided event features Camilo Garzón, Noelle de la Paz, Monica Cure, and Amanda Nazareno. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/litqua...

Bay Area! Join us and @litquake.org on Oct. 17 @ 6:30 pm at CounterPulse for a listening party debuting 3 audio lit in translation adaptations.This guided event features Camilo Garzón and special guests, Noelle de la Paz, Monica Cure, and Amanda Nazareno. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/litqua...

We're hiring a full-time Engagement Editor—a new full time staff position in CAT's Communications Department. For more information, visit our site and apply by Oct. 31. www.catranslation.org/about/opport...

We're delighted today to shout out ALTA conference sponsor, the Center for the Art of Translation! This crucial support of our upcoming conference, ALTA48: Visions and Versions, held November 5-8 in Tucson, AZ, helps to make it all possible. Thank you! @catranslation.org

Bay Area! Join us and @litquake.org on Oct. 11 @ 7 pm at Telegraph Hill Books to celebrate the release of HAIR ON FIRE. This collection of 5 female Afghan Poets is a blazing tribute and a reminder of what we lose when voices are silenced. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/litqua...

ZÍTRA budu krátce číst ze svého rozdělaného překladu Životopisu černobílého jehněte od T. Zmeškala TOMORROW I'll be reading briefly from my translation in progress of Tomáš Zmeškal's Biography of a Black-and-White Lamb 9 am EDT/15:00 CEST @catranslation.org www.catranslation.org/event/works-...

Thank you for helping us reach our goal of 75 new Two Line Press memberships which helps us cover 50% of our printing costs for an entire year! We have a few tote bags left, and you can still get one if you sign up as an annual member (U.S. based only!) ...while supplies last!

Day of Translation 2025 was a smashing success! Thank you to our 14 incredible speakers and to the 500+ readers, translators, and educators who signed up to attend. We had a wonderful day full of insightful conversations. Thank you to the Center for Fiction for hosting us at your beautiful space.

Presented in proud partnership with @catranslation.org and in-conversation with Tess Taylor greenapplebooks.com/event/2025-0...

One week from today at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social in San Francisco: "Celebrating Euphrase Kezilahabi," presented by @catranslation.org / @twolinespress.bsky.social. I'll be reading from ROSA MISTIKA and conversing w/ the endlessly thoughtful Annmarie Drury :) www.catranslation.org/event/jay-bo...

NYC! Come visit CAT and @twolinespress.bsky.social staff at the Two Lines booth (#626) Sunday, 9/21 from 10 am - 6 pm. We'll have book deals and stickers for you you! And if you sign up in person for a Two Lines Membership, you'll get a FREE CAT tote right away! brooklynbookfestival.org

Come see us this Sunday at booth #626 at the @bkbookfest.bsky.social! We'll have our latest books, backlist favorites, and...our brand new membership tote bag available for anyone who joins as a Two Lines Press member! www.catranslation.org/books/member...

Excited to be able to attend this year's Day of Translation presented by @catranslation.org at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn. #translation

📣 Come hear what may have been the last cohort of NEA Translation Fellows as we read from our projects the next five Friday mornings (ET) on Zoom 🎉 🌟 Thank you, @catranslation.org for hosting! 🌟 Thank you, @jmz.bsky.social & YZ Chin for organizing! (📚 I'll be reading Tomáš Zmeškal on October 3)

Want to expand your view of world literature in ways you couldn't previous have guessed at? Join as a Two Lines Press member by 9/21 and receive a brand new tote bag and a year's worth of books that come highly praised by @themountaingoats.bsky.social! www.catranslation.org/books/member...

75 new memberships covers 50% of our printing costs for an entire year! We only need 50 more new members by 9/21 to meet our goal! Join us or gift a Membership by 9/21 and receive this sweet CAT tote as a BONUS 🎁 @catranslation.org. www.catranslation.org/books/member...

Announcing the 2025–27 Poetry Inside Out Teaching Fellows: On behalf of the Center for the Art of Translation’s education program, please join us in welcoming our 2025–27 Teaching Fellows Saam, Jean Carla Rodea, Jo-el Molina, Jesus Manuel Morales, & Caroline Woods-Mejía!

Congratulations to Two Lines authors & translators Jazmina Barrera, Christina MacSweeney, Mohamed Kheir, and Robin Moger 🎉 Sleep Phase and The Queen of Swords are both longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature. 📚 www.catranslation.org/books/#displ...

Today until 9/21, all NEW Two Lines Press members will receive the new CAT @catranslation.org tote bag! A membership gets you early access (w/ free U.S. shipping included) for all our books (8-10/year), plus exclusive member gifts. Join us! www.catranslation.org/books-member...

We're hiring a temporary, part-time Operations Assistant. This is an in-person role that supports the day-to-day operations of our San Francisco office and keeps our accounts, book memberships, and programs running smoothly. Apply by 9/22. www.catranslation.org/about/opport...

One month from today @citylightsbooks.bsky.social in San Francisco (and via livestream): "Celebrating Euphrase Kezilahabi – with Jay Boss Rubin and Annmarie Drury." I'll be reading from Rosa Mistika, and in conversation with a fellow translator of Kezilahabi. Karibuni! citylights.com/events/celeb...

So looking forward to this!

Announcing the Center for the Art of Translation's DAY OF TRANSLATION 2025! Join us on 9/18 at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY. Registration open now for our 12-5 pm panels & tickets available for Jhumpa Lahiri and Katie Kitamura's 6 pm keynote. Full announcement ➡️ mailchi.mp/catranslatio...

Only one thing I think of when I think of lighthouses wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... @twolinespress.bsky.social @catranslation.org

Pirkko Saisio's LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR, translated from Finnish by Mia Spangenberg, is in wonderful company in the PEN America Translation Committee's #WomenInTranslationMonth reading list! cc: @catranslation.org

August is Women in Translation Month #WITMonth and we're happy to see 3 @twolinespress.bsky.social titles "Mending Bodies," "Backlight," and "The Queen of Swords" on @clmporg.bsky.social's reading list! 👀📚 www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

Tuesday July 22: "The Day We Were Dogs" by Elena Garro; translated by Megan McDowell. "The day we were dogs wasn't just any day, though it started the same as usual."

"A fierce examination of the unexamined life." GRACE PERIOD by Maria Judite de Carvalho, tr. by Margaret Jull Costa received a 🌟starred🌟 review from Kirkus! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Sale ends midnight PST tonight! 🏝️🐈📚

it’s @catranslation.bsky.social / @twolinespress.bsky.social mail day, hell yeah

✏️ Educators LAST DAY to apply for CAT's Poetry Inside Out Teaching Fellowship. A 2-year funded program that supports U.S.-based educators in grades 3–12 interested in expanding their teaching practice through poetry, translation, & inquiry-based learning. ➡️ www.catranslation.org/about/opport...

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"In an unnamed, imaginary city, the government comes up with an idea to salvage its failing economy and latent social crisis: literally sewing living human beings together." Michelle Chan Schmidt reviews MENDING BODIES for @publicbooks.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/the-origin-o...

Free shipping (U.S. only) for ALL orders over $50 AND if you buy a copy of Jazmina Barrera's ON LIGHTHOUSES, you'll get a BONUS matching tote for all your summer essentials ☀️ www.catranslation.org/shop/book/on...

You can even preorder our Fall books! www.catranslation.org/books/#displ...

If you're in a more dystopian mood try a novel about a government that incentivizes its citizens to surgically conjoin themselves . . . www.catranslation.org/shop/book/me...