ICYMI I wrote about this classic Icelandic novella, originally written in Danish. A perfect midwinter tale. Translated by Philip Roughton. “Here he walked. He walked here.” Advent by Gunnar Gunnarsson roughghosts.com/2025/12/26/h...

Looking for nonfiction. Critical and lyrical essays, collaborative projects, cross genre works, and the incorporation of original art or photographs all welcome.

“Here he walked. He walked here.” Advent by Gunnar Gunnarsson, translated by Philip Roughton roughghosts.com/2025/12/26/h...

“Here he walked. He walked here.” Advent by Gunnar Gunnarsson, translated by Philip Roughton roughghosts.com/2025/12/26/h...

Arrived late last week, this iconic work of Czech literature, The Grandmother by Božena Němcová. Originally published in 1855, now out in Susan Reynolds' translation from @jantarbooks.bsky.social

ICYMI I wrote about this intoxicating project of collaborative poetic translation and mistranslation. @sarabandebooks.bsky.social Exercises in poetic alchemy: Ancient Algorithms by Katrine Øgaard Jensen (and friends) roughghosts.com/2025/12/19/e...

The holiday season is here. A perfect time to put the finishing touches on that essay or nonfiction piece you've been wanting to send to Minor Literature[s]! Details below. @minorliteratures.bsky.social

Exercises in poetic alchemy: Ancient Algorithms by Katrine Øgaard Jensen (and friends) @sarabandebooks.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2025/12/19/e...

Exercises in poetic alchemy: Ancient Algorithms by Katrine Øgaard Jensen (and friends) @sarabandebooks.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2025/12/19/e...

Monthly Dispatch #30 — December 2025 minorlits.substack.com/p/monthly-di...

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we will stay open for submissions throughout December ... all details here: oleada.io/publication/...

And ... Monthly Dispatch #30 — ft. @rjdent.bsky.social @matthewkinlin.bsky.social Jen Adams @robmunb.bsky.social @kirstenmosher.bsky.social Gerhard Rühm tr. @wordkunst.bsky.social @lucykulwiec.bsky.social & more — goes out tomorrow ... sign up here: minorlits.substack.com

that'll be it for 2025, but we will stay open for submissions throughout December ... all details here: oleada.io/publication/...

anandimi.substack.com/p/winter-doe... wrote about the rather tepid Scandinavian winter we've been having here so far and the general malaise around the ways in climate change has taken over my daily musings. is this what they call solastalgia?

"There are over three thousand species of mosquito. One species of human. Melinda is an ancient, Australian strain of bitch. Arms piped to bone from daily swims. Thin as pincers. Venomous, morose ..." Bitten — @lucykulwiec.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/12/11/b...

Bitten — Lucy A. Kulwieć minorliteratures.com/2025/12/11/b...

Don't miss "time poem" from Gerhard Rühm's The Folded Clock, translated by @wordkunst.bsky.social @twistedspoon.bsky.social The Folded Clock — Gerhard Rühm (tr. Alexander Booth) minorliteratures.com/2025/12/10/t...

"THE OCEAN IS UPHOLSTERY, a couch. Its velvet pile turns aquamarine as the wind brushes against it. Pillows tossed atop an expanse of fabric, ripple and swell disappearing into an overcast horizon. " 80° from Here — Kirsten Mosher minorliteratures.com/2025/12/09/1...

This link will take you to the @minorliteratures.bsky.social portal for our winter 2025 nonfiction submission window. There's room in there for you to submit your strange, wonderful, original essays. Open for the month of December. oleada.io/publication/...

This link will take you to the @minorliteratures.bsky.social portal for our winter 2025 nonfiction submission window. There's room in there for you to submit your strange, wonderful, original essays. Open for the month of December. oleada.io/publication/...

Canadian-born architect Frank Ghery has died. My only encounter with his surreal designs was the UTS Business School in Sydney, Australia. Known as the "paper bag" building it demanded I capture it with a fish eye lens! RIP.

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Machado Version 1 [Retrato] — Robin Munby minorliteratures.com/2025/12/04/m...

Recent book arrivals. Advent, a classic Icelandic novella written in Danish, seemed like nice light holiday fare. Anomaly, knowing Nikolaidis, is likely a more demanding read, but set on New Year's Eve on the last day of the last year of human existence it's still seasonal, no?

Just a few thoughts... Limping into December roughghosts.com/2025/12/02/l...

we are now open for submissions of fiction, essays and experimental texts ... all info here: oleada.io/publication/...

"Entering a text to translate it is finding a word or phrase that acts as a key opening a door into the world that the text describes. I use that door to enter that world."

"I just write. I love writing. I always have. And, as with my reading, when it comes to writing, I make no distinctions with regards to form or genre. I read secular, sacred and profane texts ..." R.J. Dent talks to @matthewkinlin.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/12/02/a...

Winter submission windows for @MinorLits are now open for fiction, nonfiction, and experimental. Nonfiction details can be found here: oleada.io/publication/...

keep your eyes on minor lits for an extract ...

"Demonstrate rather than describe the Artist’s appeal. Visitors throb around him; the woman darts glances his way. Ignoring his public, the Artist is silent." The Artist. A Maquette. — Jen Adams minorliteratures.com/2025/11/27/t...

In my current post-car accident fog, a beam of light shines through. And, by the way, all books should come with a coordinated bookmark. @tracepress.bsky.social

ICYMI I wrote about Gerhard Rühm's collection of 100 number poems, translated by Alexander Booth @wordkunst.bsky.social @twistedspoon.bsky.social Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm roughghosts.com/2025/11/26/c...

Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm, translated by Alexander Booth @wordkunst.bsky.social @twistedspoon.bsky.social #GermanLitMonth roughghosts.com/2025/11/26/c...

Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm, translated by Alexander Booth @wordkunst.bsky.social @twistedspoon.bsky.social #GermanLitMonth roughghosts.com/2025/11/26/c...

Asmi Kartikeya on a Marxist poet, the Indian New Wave, biography, space, time and the ghosts of knowledge.

"Intimacy and alienation coexist, coalesce to form the arcane, the realm of the spectral, where ghosts as old as the advent of language live, breathe, and rot ..." Muktibodh: A Presentiment of Salvation, the Filmic in the Ruins of Civilization — Asmi Kartikeya minorliteratures.com/2025/11/25/m...

Asmi Kartikeya on a Marxist poet, the Indian New Wave, biography, space, time and the ghosts of knowledge.

Muktibodh: A Presentiment of Salvation, the Filmic in the Ruins of Civilization — Asmi Kartikeya minorliteratures.com/2025/11/25/m...

ICYMI, I wrote about the second installment of Jón Kalman Stefánsson's Trilogy of the Boy, finaly available in North America from @biblioasis.bsky.social #IcelandicLit Here at the end of the world: The Sorrow of Angels by Jón Kalman Stefánsson roughghosts.com/2025/11/23/h...

November, for me, has been an endless stream of political and bureaucratic nightmares, so what better way to head into the last week of the month than to be rear-ended by an intoxicated driver who fled the scene. Sometimes life really does suck.

Here at the end of the world: The Sorrow of Angels by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, translated by Philip Roughton @biblioasis.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2025/11/23/h...

Here at the end of the world: The Sorrow of Angels by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, translated by Philip Roughton @biblioasis.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2025/11/23/h...

I'm finding it almost impossible to engage with social media these days. But a couple of recent releases have arrived over the past week or so courtesy of @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

"Drums reverberate. An oil lamp gleams. Heat. Sweat. Gods and heroes dance through the night." Images and words by @kimdorman.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2025/11/21/k...

"We aren’t mere witnesses to the End Times, we are the living ends that midwife the next extinctions; we’re fulfilling karma rather than breaking it." 00:00:00 on the International Date Line — Gabriela Denise Frank minorliteratures.com/2025/11/20/0...

Nonfiction submissions will also open for the month of December.