@gayadorno.bsky.social on translating Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories in a new Asymptote interview: “One thing that did feel joyful or exciting about doing this project was getting an opportunity to think of myself more as a writer.” www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/12...

“To capture the precarious existential condition of Kurds, Ozmen has crafted a book that resembles a piece of performance art, defying novelistic conventions.” Hilary Ilkay on @gayadorno.bsky.social’s translation of The Competition of Unfinished Stories. www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/11...

Don’t anger Nick’s cat.

my sabo-tabby will place a 40 year curse on you if you don’t buy THE COMPETITION OF UNFINISHED STORIES, out today with @sandorfpassage.bsky.social 🖤

Need help w/ this @maris.bsky.social challenge? Don’t sleep on Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories, translated from Kurdish by @gayadorno.bsky.social. @lydiakiesling.bsky.social hails it as a “breathtaking, virtuosic, dark, funny, furious, sad, and genuinely strange work of fiction.”

Today’s to-do list: 1. VOTE, 2. Get yourself a copy of Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories, translated by @gayadorno.bsky.social. It’s an unforgettable, wild ride! sandorfpassage.org/product/the-...

“I had to run in every direction, to explore this life myself.” In Hassan Akram’s A Plan to Save the World (translated from Arabic by Ibrahim Fawzy), childhood idealism clashes with the stark realities of living through war in a boy’s mission to not only save the world, but himself.

It’s not available yet, but keep an eye out for an excerpt from Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories, as rendered in English by @gayadorno.bsky.social, in this incredible @thedialmag.bsky.social fiction issue.

Hot off the press in Zagreb, our October, November, and January titles: award-winning Croatian poetry, a wickedly wild Kurdish farce translated by @gayadorno.bsky.social, and a landmark Bulgarian queer novel about a sworn virgin in Albania. Get in touch for ARCs.

“Dryly funny, delightfully inventive, and politically sharp . . . If you like @rabihalameddine.bsky.social’s style, this is a great book for you!” Samia Saliba on The Competition of Unfinished Stories. www.arabamericanwriters.org/blog/posts/n...

“Nothing survives the abattoir of the forest.” Nicholas Glastonbury makes the call between “The History of Sound” and “The Extinction of Irena Rey” as week three draws to a close at the 2025 Tournament of Books, presented by @fieldnotesbrand.bsky.social! www.tournamentofbooks.com/2025/the-his...

i just know a wainscoted parlour hates to see george eliot coming

Thanks @antonhur.com for naming Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories (tr. @gayadorno.bsky.social) one of his most anticipated novels of the year!

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Adding a chapter on the gooner body as a new body without organs in my rewriting of a thousand plateaus

gooners in STEM

what my twitter feed feels like now

starting on estrogen as a bit

11 more months of gay shame :)

nothing tastes as good as screamo feels

railing a line of adderall so i can focus on writing my book, a collection of poems that are all speculative bowling alley animations

yeeting the last three brain cells i have into this brand new abyss 😹