I had a wonderful time leading a dialect translation workshop @bristoltranslates.bsky.social. It was so active with over 100 participants in the Zoom room, and their contributions have been simply brilliant! Dialect sparks the best kinds of conversations. Great to see & meet you all 📚✍️💙

Registration for the Bristol Translates 2025 NORLA keynote speech by Damion Searls is now open: go to the link below to register by email. When? 7th July 17:00 BST Where? Join online from wherever you are in the world!

For those working with #Scandinavian languages, Bristol Translates 2025 is a real treat: we are offering Swedish as one of our workshop languages for the first time ever. Our workshop will be led by Nichola Smalley, acclaimed #Swedish and #Norwegian translator.

For all #Catalan learners, speakers, translators and enthusiasts: the deadline for a bursary place on our intensive language workshop, led by translator Peter Bush, is tomorrow. Visit our website below. Applications still open for all language workshops! www.bristol.ac.uk/sml/translat...

Bristol Translates 2025 will not only run intensive workshops, but also enlightening talks on crucial topics. On Tuesday 8th July, we will be hosting a session on 'making a living as a translator' - a key question for all aspiring and working translators. Applications still open!

Places are still available for our professional development sessions on the 8th and 10th July. Find our programme via the link below and sign up soon! www.bristol.ac.uk/sml/translat...

Looking forward to joining the professional development sessions!

In addition to our language-specific literary translation workshops, we have an exciting programme featuring events such as pitching sessions with publishers, poetry workshops and discussions on the future of the translation industry in the face of AI.

Are you already a literary translator? Then check out these professional development sessions (online) at this year’s @bristoltranslates.bsky.social 🕺

For a taste of what you can expect at Bristol Translates 2025, you can now watch the @institutfrancaisdk.bsky.social Institut français du Royaume-Uni keynote speech given by Maboula Soumahoro at Bristol Translates 2024. youtube.com/watch?v=G_mDYz097H4&ab_channel=UniversityofBristol

In addition to our language workshops, Bristol Translates will be offering professional development sessions on the 8th and 10th July for the first time. Intended for those not taking part in the rest of the summer school, you can apply directly for these dates.

Come and join us this summer! We are offering workshops in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Urdu + multilanguage workshop. Apply by end of day for early🐦 discount.

🚨Today is your final chance to benefit from the early-bird discount for Bristol Translates 2025. See the following link www.bristol.ac.uk/sml/translat... for our application form, full programme, and information about our tutors and speakers!

🚨 Just over a week left to apply for the Bristol Translates 2025 early-bird discount! Offering workshops for 12 languages, a fantastic keynote speech and much more, Bristol Translates 2025 promises to be an exciting week in literary translation.

Bristol Translates 2025 is packed with exciting events ready to propel your passion for #translation or career ambitions forward, all while meeting like-minded translators. Have a look below and see some of what we have planned! 👇

Some very exciting news from @commapress.bsky.social and Bristol Translates 2025. Open to translators from #Chinese, #Japanese and #Urdu, winners of the Comma Press Emerging Translator Award will be considered for publication in an upcoming anthology! Applications for #BT2025 are still open.

The deadlines for scholarship applications and early-bird discounts are fast approaching! Apply to Bristol Translates 2025 by 15th March for scholarships, and by 31st March for the discounted price! www.bristol.ac.uk/sml/translat...

📢We are enormously excited to announce that the keynote speaker for Bristol Translates 2025 will be Damion Searls, translator of Nobel laureate Jon Fosse and seven other Nobel prize-winners.

As translated Japanese literature has taken the Anglophone world by storm in recent years, Bristol Translates 2025 will once again be offering workshops with Morgan Giles and Polly Barton, acclaimed translators of some the best known Japanese works translated into English.

Bristol Translates 2025 welcomes linguaphiles of all stripes - from early career and even established translators to language enthusiasts and students. See what one of our previous attendees from BT 2024 had to say 👇

The deadline for the scholarship (which covers the full fees) is this Friday.

Some very exciting news from @commapress.bsky.social and Bristol Translates 2025. Open to translators from #Chinese, #Japanese and #Urdu, winners of the Comma Press Emerging Translator Award will be considered for publication in an upcoming anthology! Applications for #BT2025 are still open.

📢We are enormously excited to announce that the keynote speaker for Bristol Translates 2025 will be Damion Searls, translator of Nobel laureate Jon Fosse and seven other Nobel prize-winners.

⏰Applications for Bristol Translates 2025 are now open! Join us for a 5 day online summer school from 7 to 11 July 2025. There will be three days of translation workshops in eleven languages with leading translators in each language.