As someone who immigrated to Ohio as a disoriented teen with zero English, appearing in @kenyonreview.bsky.social years later, with one of my most personal translations means a little extra. Maybe I did learn to string English words together into meanings, after all. kenyonreview.org/piece/she-be...

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Another translated excerpt from Abdulah Sidran's autofiction SCRAPS in the latest issue of Trinity College Dublin's JoLT! issuu.com/trinityjolt1...

Join a spread of small presses & literary magazines for the Litquake Book Fair on 9/28 in Yerba Buena Gardens! Browse the best in local literature set to a day of poetry readings from Litquake Out Loud. FREE 📅Sep 28, 11–4 🌟Full list of vendors: bit.ly/44P1jJN @yerbabuenagardens.bsky.social

and coming up this week ... — an extract from FIELD by Adam Judah Krasnoff — an interview with @alinaetc.bsky.social

ONE MORE DAY—to submit to Turkoslavia! exchanges.uiowa.edu/about-turkos...

More Abdulah Sidran in English translation soon... Stay tuned!

This BCMS word lesson is actually a NON-lesson. No matter WHERE "kuća" comes from, you know how primed-for-stares-by-strangers you are when someone hears you say "Idem kući" (I'm going home) on the phone to your mom? Take THAT, Thomas Wolfe—you really can't go home again. Or at least not in BCMS.

ALSO TODAY: @kolatubosun.bsky.social in conversation with Efe Paul Azino, the founder of the brand new New York Black and African Literature Festival. " We want a mix of the established and the emerging, the canonical and the disruptive." flaminghydra.com/a-new-black-...

#callforsubmissions #writingcommunity

Dragan Savić, Yugoslav caricaturist and illustrator, traveled to Algeria in 1961, where the National Liberation Front (FLN) commissioned him to create a series of drawings documenting the Algerian struggle for independence.

.‪@coryoldweiler.bsky.social‬ reviews "Bedbugs" by Martina Vidaić: "Emotional coldness and physical cold recur throughout the novel, emphasizing the protagonist’s feelings of alienation from everything and everyone around her." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-life-infested-with-doubt/

Writing in public one of the most draining essays you've ever had to write with the logic that it would force you to hold back tears. And hey, folks, it works! As long as you pack your things quickly and home is within walking distance, but.

Two exciting events I'm honored to be a part of—this month! @leeyamehta.bsky.social @katherineeyoung.bsky.social

September is World Kid Lit Month: a month for everyone of any age to explore the world through international children’s books. How to take part? Simply read a book for young people from another country. If you use social media, share what you’ve enjoyed with the hashtag #WorldKidLitMonth

👇👇👇 More info at exchanges.uiowa.edu/about-turkos... — ! Looking forward to reading so many translations all at once soon.

The best novels provide such a vivid sense of place that readers feel like they’re walking through these worlds. So for this #witmonth appreciation post, two books that drop readers into 1950s Suriname and 1990s Croatia: My Name Is Sita and Underground Barbie (tr. @enaselimo.bsky.social).

One month left to submit to TURKOSLAVIA (Fall 2025)! We welcome prose and poetry translated from Turkic and Slavic languages (loosely defined) into English. Please send doc or docx files—with source text—to [email protected]. Prose should not exceed 5,000 words. For poems, please send up to 5. 💙

With over twenty years under my belt in St. Louis, I feel local there. And today, thanks to the brilliant reporting of @stlpublicradio.bsky.social, which I still read from faraway places, I learned about brain-eating amoeba. This graphic is an ode to my processing (all the while doing this: 👀).

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Next up for #WITmonth is Underground Barbie by Maša Kolanović. Translated by Ena Selimović.

Book from the near future rave for Underground Barbie by Masa Kolanovic; translated from Croatian by Ena Selimovic. Set during the Yugoslav wars two friends play with their Barbies while under air raid sirens sound and bombs fall. Playfully illustrated and charming. @sandorfpassage.bsky.social

Issue 3 is on its way to you now 👀 👀 Design by Sara Sukhun Photographs by Gauri Gill longhaulmag.com/subscribe/

yet another news day in the annals of “guess I’ll just keep living”

Tribute to Philip Larkin's "The Mower" + Hine's cotton mill photographs.

Colleagues in Eurasian and Slavic studies (broadly defined) — Hokkaido University's Slavic-Eurasian Research Center is accepting applications for its Foreign Visitors Fellowship for 2026—27. Highly recommend this excellent program! Please circulate: src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/fvfp/index1....

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An example of the inadvertent camaraderie you'll find in this publication, wherein Mela Žuljević mentioned my piece and I mentioned hers—completely by chance. 💙🥹

In sum: read it read it read it—!

Big thanks to @clmporg.bsky.social for including works from ANMLY on this roundup! Read us, read em all!!

You know that David Bowie song where...

"Dear comrade major Respected Maj Dear deeply respected Comrade Major Ráday, I’m writing you a letter instead of talking to you in person, because in person it’s not so easy, not so easy to be clear..." —Ági Bori translates Miklós Vámos anmly.org/ap40/agi-bor...

This story by Miklós Vámos is a comic romp depicting teenage social life during Hungary’s communist era. Read "When Nikita Scored the Coke" (translated from Hungarian by @agiborimottern.bsky.social ): wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Happy Women in Translation Month! We’ll be featuring all of these titles over the course of August, including some forthcoming ones. But for now, a collective thank you to all of the immensely talented authors and translators who created these unforgettable books! #wit

Another way to say how grateful we are to the @clmporg.bsky.social!

Three of our contributors' pieces are featured in @clmporg.bsky.social's reading list for Women in Translation Month 2025! 🪻 Find the full list here: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

Made the Best Literary Translations 2026 longlist! My first ever longlist! 💙

"After nearly two consecutive shifts—afternoon into early morning—her body teetered between numbness and pain." Read an excerpt from the novel VANILLA ICE CREAM by Đurđa Knežević, translated from the Croatian by Ena Selimović www.apofenie.com/the-latest-c...

read Underground Barbie by Maša Kolanović, tr. by Ena Selimović, this book is incredibly smart and fun, it a wonder. Highly recommend ✨📚

"She stared at the meat as if they were clues to a mystery. She paused. She stroked the packages of squashed meat." —Ena Selimović translates Maša Kolanović

At first glance, you might read this as the English word “PLAY,” but it’s just another way the BCMS word “PLAV” plays with you. Its main grift is that it can describe both something that is “blue” or “bruised” and someone who is “blonde”—! What.

ANMLY is open for new work for 3 more days! We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation! > anmly.submittable.com *Fee waivers available* Check out our latest issue to see what we're into! > anmly.org/ap40

Coming to you soon—stay tuned! You can preorder here: longhaulmag.com/store/

The Sameer Project won’t stop! Their daily water distributions in the Central Gaza area continue. They distributed 24,000 liters of fresh water yesterday, July 26th. Donate: chuffed.org/project/1132...

The world’s governments are failing Gaza. It’s up to global civil society. Please give generously to aid organizations. I will be posting links to donate as often as I can. I have checked out each organization. And please re-post. Thank you so much.

Many congratulations to the PEN Translates winners! Special shout-out to the WWBers on the list: @annielmcd.bsky.social @shreedaisy.bsky.social Annie McDermott Mara Faye Lethem Madame Neilsen Gaye Kynoch Geetanjali Shree Daisy Rockwell

"That’s what translators do: We find original forms of expression for unoriginal material." — Boris Dralyuk in conversation with Sara Gear on the question of whether one has to be a poet to translate poetry 🧿 www.asymptotejournal.com/interview/an...

When you place English in conversation with BCMS (+ the many other languages which have inherited "sir" from the Russian "сыр"), it turns out the bourgeoisie get an earful about—cheese.

Managing to get a translation out in the anglosphere is one thing, but when two of your colleagues appear alongside you, it's that much better! Check out the latest releases from Apofenie, where you'll find: