📣 Meet the mentors for the 2026 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program! buff.ly/uQyIkTL The program allows an emerging translator to establish and develop a close working relationship with an experienced translator on a literary translation project chosen by the emerging translator.

was away from this side of social media for a while but so glad to learn from @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social her process of translating and editing

Apply to translate Prose from Hong Kong with the fabulous @jacqlyy.bsky.social & Poetry from HK with me! 🇭🇰

📣 The 2026 Emerging Translator Mentorship Program submission portals are open! The ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator. Apply by 11/30: buff.ly/cpduT69

I'm happy to share that my English translation of Gigi Leung Lee-chi's 梁莉姿 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑀𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 《日常運動》 is coming out from Riverhead Books February 2026. Its power & relevance resonate extend far beyond Hong Kong. Thank you @ohanzhang.bsky.social for your support & careful edits! 香港加油！🇭🇰

Et dans l'épisode, une lecture d'un poème de cette immense autrice qu'est Xi Xi, tiré du hors-série de Jentayu dédié à la littérature hongkongaise contemporaine ✨💫

Attn: translators! Two Lines Press has two open calls for submission right now, both due July 6th!

NYC: Join us on Wednesday, June, 4 at 7PM at Yu and Me Books for the final U.S. stop of the MENDING BODIES book tour with author Hon Lai Chu, translator @jacqlyy.bsky.social‬, and writer/translator Bonnie Chau. More at: www.yuandmebooks.com/products/boo...

Someone just asked me about getting started as a literary translator and I realized I already have kind of a starter pack of content to help emerging translators. First, how to get rights to a book you want to translate: TikTok: vt.tiktok.com/ZSkN9B67w/ Reel: www.instagram.com/reel/CtYkiwh...

"What if, in our barter with AI, 'the pound of flesh' we barter turns out to be our brain?" @bairuiwen.bsky.social sees warning signs of the creep of AI into education and translation work. lareviewofbooks.org/article/ai-n...

A book I’m translating has a chapter named after this song & it’s very timely

Open Letter Books, Deep Vellum, The Paris Review… this is a full-on attack on literary publishing.

For most of our existence, WWB has received funding from the NEA. Now, like many others, we must chart a path forward without it. But our readers still deserve access to dazzling global writing. Please donate or share our work to support our mission of bringing the world close through literature.

Thank you @jennywcreative.bsky.social for chatting with me about literary translation & HK lit 💖 hongkonger.world/2025/04/21/h...

I spent probably an hour last night trying to decipher a Chinese phrase that just wasn't making sense, only to learn from the author that it was simply a typo. 🙈 Presumably this has happened to other literary translators too?

👇 Fascinating set of titles and authors and talented translators (eg @jeremytiang.bsky.social & @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social ) in the mix here for this prize cc @wwborders.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social @chrisfan.bsky.social

So many of my favorite translators & books are on this list ❤️❤️❤️

Thanks so much @mikemeginnis.bsky.social for talking with me about Sinophone literature & translation ✨ It was an honor & a pleasure. Wishing you the very best in your future endeavors

If any of your published works were included without consent in Meta’s AI training dataset, you can send them a letter telling them that they do not have the right to use your work. Template courtesy of @authorsguild.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...

Join us on Thursday, April 17th at 5:30pm PT for our virtual salon, The Art of Translation. 📚 We'll gather to hear from: ✨ @ilzeduarte.bsky.social ✨ @jennybhattwriter.bsky.social ✨ @bdralyuk.bsky.social ✨ @katherineeyoung.bsky.social ✨ @yilinwriter.bsky.social Register here: bit.ly/4hvfXZK

When your dog insists on being wrapped in a heated fluffy pink blanket and napping on your lap while you work.

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

This is devastating. IWP's impact on international writing and translated literature can't be understated. I have no words.

This is devastating. The IWP is the crown jewel of the U of Iowa & has done so much for literature around the world, but it's also done so much for Iowa. This update feels especially sad coming one week after a beautiful tribute to the program's co-founder, the incomparable Hualing Nieh Engle.

I didn’t expect to stumble upon an entry for Ray Romano in the Pleco app #🀄️📚

Apps are open for the 2026 ALTA Fellowships at Vermont Studio Center! There are 2 fellowships next year: 1. For a BIPOC translator who identifies as queer, woman, non-binary, LGBTQ+ 2. For a mid-career translator (3+ published book-length translations) Deadline: 3/31. Learn more: buff.ly/3K0JaNb

When your dog co-opts your workspace

I accidentally translated something as "clogged poors" instead of "clogged pores," and honestly, it kind of makes sense.

Warm congratulations to this stellar group mentees! Literary translation is in excellent hands ✨ I'm honored to be mentoring the immensely talented Tim Tim Cheng, who'll be this year's Hong Kong Prose Mentee & translating Lee Ka Yee's essay collection 𝙀𝒙𝙥𝒐𝙨𝒖𝙧𝒆. 💖

We had some visitors to this morning’s fitness classes 🐕

US citizens looking for a way to do something, 5calls.org makes it easy to phone your reps & senators. If like me you have social anxiety & hate talking on the phone, they have handy scripts you can follow. It feels like throwing a pebble into an ocean, but it's something.

I think the word I most loathe translating into English is 背影. 🀄📚

Lau Yee-Wa, author of Tongueless, on Hong Kong Fiction on the @chinabooksreview.bsky.social podcast about how Cantonese is disappearing from Hong Kong schools, and what literature can do to raise awareness. chinabooksreview.com/2025/02/04/e...

The Blue-Eyed Tapir The blue-eyed tapir is charcoal gray in front, sandy yellow in back It gives birth to a little tapir striped in white from head to tail, an amazing black Technicolor dreamcoat a marvelous fact --Xi Xi 藍眼睛的貘 一頭藍眼睛的貘 前半身炭灰色，後半身泥黃色 誕下一頭小貘 白條紋橫貫頭尾，黑色 神奇彩衣 奇蹟 --西西

A legitimately excellent conversation with Lau Yee-Wa on language hierarchies, Hong Kong literature, and the HK author's plight after 2019 — and, of course, her debut novel Tongueless, a psychological thriller. Streaming everywhere you listen to podcasts. chinabooksreview.com/2025/02/04/e...

Just reposting my doc on HK from last year as much of what is happening with erasing websites etc in the US previously happened in HK, but people resisted… www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

"Writers around the world working in Chinese enjoy the gift of an incredibly rich lexicon and literary heritage, but they also face a wide range of obstacles." @ohanzhang.bsky.social Read more about Han's efforts to bring more Chinese fiction to U.S. readers: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Written by Zhang Yueran, translated to English by @jeremytiang.bsky.social, and edited by @ohanzhang.bsky.social, this enthralling page-turner delves into the pressures faced by women in China that cut across class lines. You won't want to miss WOMEN, SEATED on shelves August 12th: bit.ly/3PWKLY3

Happy Year of the Snake! 蛇年大吉！🐍

Perhaps you need this today, too #dogsofbluesky

Today’s agenda: knitting group in the afternoon, fitness class in the evening, translating a book about resistance before, after, and in between, punctuated with dog snuggles. 🧶💪📚📝🐶

Announcement for all early-career translators: submissions to this year’s Momentum Grant, judged by Julia Sanches, are due 2/28! Learn more about eligibility, submissions, and the Momentum Grant for Early-Career Translators: https://buff.ly/3CnAgK5

I know I will write about Xiaohongshu/RedNote one day, but I didn’t expect it to be today: It’s #1 downloaded app in the US today. Why? Because the TikTok ban is pushing users to join another Chinese app out of spite. Also, they call themselves the “TikTok refugees.” www.wired.com/story/red-no...

The Taiwanese poet Ling Yü 零⾬ has won the 2025 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature. Here's her poem "Names Vanished from the Map," tr. Andrea Lingenfelter: www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poe.... Here's four poems tr. Fiona Sze-Lorrain: theoffendingadam.com/author/lingyu/ incl. the one below:

Reminder Hong Kong Culture and Literature book series via brill.com/page/hkcl is open to new manuscripts. You can contact the editor Howard Choy directly [email protected]

Meant to share this earlier, but I was in HK at the time w/ a packed schedule. Anyway, thank you so much to @jennywcreative.bsky.social & @gblee.bsky.social for putting together this rich issue of Transtexte(e)s on "Reading & Writing Global Hong Kong." 🇭🇰

Hopology HK希望學 is publishing a series of children's picture books based on Xi Xi's 西西 poetry. First in the series is 《可不可以說》𝘾𝙖𝙣 𝙒𝙚 𝙎𝙖𝙮, based on one of Xi Xi's most beloved poems, and illustrated by 廖倍恩 Joanne Liu of All Things Bright & Beautiful. booksunion.com/49141/?v=255...

literature in translation should be the biggest section of any bookstore tbh

Paper Republic’s list of Chinese Literature in Translation 2024 is out! paper-republic.org/pers/jack-ha... (if we’ve missed anything, please let us know in a comment)