I'd just like to resurface the "don't tell the poets" meme. let's get back to that, shall we? I enjoyed it.

Excited to see our very own "Translating Disability" collection on here! Check it out to find works touching on disability, translated from French, Korean, and Russian (plus original writing in English). wordswithoutborders.org/read/collect...

newly posted: Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social : Stephen Dobyns 1941-2026 / @uchicagopress.bsky.social @ampoetryreview.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/07/greg...

NOW OPEN!!✨✨ It's the most wonderful time of year! The Sarabande Open has begun. Send your manuscripts directly to our editors this July! We’re reading poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid work, and proposals for literature in translation. Link in bio to learn more!

Here is a nice thing I found down a research rabbithole: sheet music transcriptions of animal sounds. The musician wren is particularly good, as you might expect boingboing.net/2021/01/06/c...

What AI Earbuds Can’t Replace: The Value of Learning Another Language www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar... #languagelearning #langsky

“Diana deserves a book to herself, maybe a dozen books, but let me dedicate at least a couple of paragraphs to this lovely woman.” Boman Desai, @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social: chireviewofbooks.com/2026/06/23/i... (cc: @damianbarr.bsky.social, the first person to press one of her books into my hands)

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

We celebrate this summer solstice with an image taken just after a deluge heralded an early start of the monsoon season this year! While no pots of gold have turned up, we are viewing the rainbow as a sign of hope and good fortune for all in the coming months.

📣 @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social is accepting submissions of poetry-in-translation. Translators are invited to submit a 15–20 page manuscript sample along with a query letter and a short bio. The open reading will be capped at 850 submissions.

Isele Quarterly (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

"I thought it over, I was 28, it was only going to get harder to give up the good life, but give it up I did." Read Boman Desai on his book "Brahms Comes to Dinner" ( @schaffnerpress.bsky.social)

If you're in NYC from now til December, there's an exhibit on Basquiat's early works on display thebishopgallery.com/our-friend-j...

May Sarton 💙

final! day!

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Novels feat. @biblioasis.bsky.social @schaffnerpress.bsky.social @veloxbooks.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

Happy publication day to "Brahms Comes to Dinner" by Boman Desai! This novel won the Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature and we're pleased to introduce it to the world. Tonight at 7 PM CT, Boman launches the book at Secret World Books (owned by author @gaylebrandeis.bsky.social).

Happy Publication Day to Boman Desai & Brahms Comes to Dinner, out now @schaffnerpress.bsky.social! "By dramatizing the high-voltage, yet tender, minds of three legendary musicians, Boman Desai has written a When We Cease to Understand the World for 19th-Century classical music." —The Brooklyn Rail

happy pride! i edit an online literary magazine called beestung that's for two-spirit, non-binary, and genderqueer writers and readers. you can support me by reading us and sharing what we're doing. we're also open for new work for The Pleasure Issue! beestungmag.com

Louise Gluck

Last day to submit! Send in that story and tell a friend. brownhoundpress.com

Send us your poetry, memoir, researched CNF, or translation manuscript during June! No reading fee for those earning less than $50K. We would love to read your work! triohousepress.submittable.com/submit

'Victorian courting conversation chair, featuring three seats designed to allow couples to sit closely while a chaperone supervised from the third chair' www.bidsquare.com/online-aucti...

Art of the day “Charlie” ⦿ Lola Dupre — mixed-media collage

WOMENSART blog: Lee Miller, Photographer & Survivor womensartblog.wordpress.com/2024/10/11/l...

Volume 8 of Quibble Lit seeks submissions on the theme of “jungle”! Submit prose, poetry, and visual art (fee-free) by May 31: www.clmp.org/members/open...

The dresses of Frida Kahlo, which have been on display in Mexico City. The artist adopted a brightly coloured folk style reflecting her promotion of indigenous arts embraced by the Mexican Renaissance movement and symbolic of a cultural identity freed by revolution #WomensArt

Today @wirobooks.bsky.social, an interview with Taina Tervonen, whose new book is HOSTAGES (@schaffnerpress.bsky.social). If you’re following the growing conversation about art theft, provenance, and cultural return, this book is for you: www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-...

The journalist spans continents and cultures in both her work and life. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-... @schaffnerpress.bsky.social #booksky

“I think a successful translated work leaves no trace of what the writer Lina Mounzer once described to me as the “the laboured agony” of translation.” Translator and International Booker Prize judge Sophie Hughes reflects on the art of literary translation. At Euronews: buff.ly/6gk36XY

Something I just thought of that's gone. The thrill of waiting & hearing a song you selected coming on the jukebox or the radio after you phoned in a request. A song you had on tape & could listen to anytime but were excited to hear played for others on the presumption they would absolutely love it

Today’s Submittable Deadlines: COMEDY Stage Play. 1pg Screenplay & Stories. ROMANCE Short Story. HORROR Novel. wildsoundfestivalreview.com/2026/04/12/t... #submittable #novel #shortstory #novelfestival

Fans of Schaffner Press photography book "66 on 66" by Terrence Moore should know that USPS is releasing Route 66 stamps on May 5! A perfect pairing: 📚 schaffnerpress.com/books/66-on-... 📮 store.usps.com/store/produc...

New Lyonel Trouillot novel out tomorrow! "The Old Woman of Calvary Hill" completes his trilogy with this magical realism narrative, as told by the “old woman” of the title. Translated by Lena Taub Robles. schaffnerpress.com/books/the-wa...

Boman Desai, whose novel, Brahms Comes to Dinner, will be published by @schaffnerpress.bsky.social this June (print and digital ARCs available now), remembers his first editor, the famed Diana Athill: bomandesai.com/diana-athill...

Hotch Potch Literature & Art (Fiction; non-paying) opened to fiction submissions. https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

Meet Jasmin Attia, author of The Oud Player of Cairo ( @schaffnerpress.bsky.social), at the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach this spring: fourarts.org/event/the-ou...

“Already one of my favourite reads of 2026, and a great start to the year.” — @hararereview.com on GENERATOR ( @schaffnerpress.bsky.social). Review copies are available #booksky

I highly recommend this week’s coverage of the London Book Fair by Ed Nawotka @publisherswkly.bsky.social, like this fascinating article on the French Publishers Agency, which @schaffnerpress.bsky.social acquires many of its French language titles from: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Gabriel García Márquez (with scenes from the Francesco Rosi film adaptation of his novella "Chronicle of a Death Foretold") - BOTD

New publisher listing for: The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying). #WritingCommunity

I wrote about Ruth Asawa, the relationship between art & life, & why we can't do without the idea of "genius." Free post, no paywall. garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/how-small-...

BTD - Terence Fisher - 1959 - The Hound of the Baskervilles - 1959 - East German re-release poster - Art by Thomas Schleusing

The Mersey Review @themerseyreview.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

Schaffner Press author Michael Bobelian reviews "Fear and Fury" by Heather Ann Thompson and "Five Bullets" by Elliot Williams, in his last book review for the Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2026/0...

We're looking forward to a banner year with fascinating new titles, a new company logo, and a move to a different distributor: our old colleagues @ipgbook.bsky.social, who will be taking up sales of our list as of March 1st. Read more: mailchi.mp/9de6277fe603...

👀 Our new colophon, designed by Victoria Brenman. What do you see first? An anemone, a starfish, a flower, an "S," or something else? ⭐ 🌸

Coming soon to a book spine near you: our new logo, designed by Victoria Brenman. It has a living quality to it like a starfish or anemone. It's also comprised of the letter S.

Happy #FridaytheThirteenth ! The only official and accurate picture of the Friday Thirteenth Jinx. ( #PhantomsFriday for good measure.)

👀 Did you mean to submit your manuscript about music for the Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature, but you ran out of time? If so, good news for you: we're extending this year's submission deadline until February 14th. Please share and send us your work! schaffnerawards.com #booksky