📣 Publishers, orgs, bookshops, festivals, institutions, & collectives can apply for their International Translation Day events to be featured in this year's Nationwide programme with @writerscentre.bsky.social. #ITD2025 Apply & join us ⬇️⬇️ (deadline 28 Aug) www.englishpen.org/translation/...

Honoured to join @englishpen.bsky.social to talk about translating in a hostile world, with Meera @roundtablebookscic.bsky.social, Nariman @poetrytranslation.bsky.social and others this week for #ITD2025

Applications are now open for the Emerging Translator Mentorships Programme @writerscentre.bsky.social Languages this year: Arabic, Dutch from Flanders, Faroese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish or a Language of India into English — D/L 31/8/25! nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/get-involved...

We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 longlist – 13 books ‘all alive with great characters and narrative surprises’. Huge congratulations to the authors who make up this year's Booker Dozen. ➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025

Absolutely *loved* taking part in yesterday's panel on Gender in Translation and AI for @bristoltranslates.bsky.social with @rebeccadewald.bsky.social, and being reunited with @roselab.bsky.social, the French translator of #Blutbuch, for the first time since our Swiss workshop ❤️

Tickets now available for roundtable w/ Josephine Balmer, @rebeccadewald.bsky.social, Jennifer Ingleheart, Fran Olivares Medina, Eva Megias & Sophie Stevens, co-organised w/ @writerscentre.bsky.social & @bcltuea.bsky.social, 30 July, 2pm, NCW Norwich: nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/femin...

Member and former chair of the Translators Association Vineet Lal will be welcoming emerging translators at The Literary Centre at 10 today with @rebeccadewald.bsky.social , Nasim Luczaj & Dr Kotryna Garanasvili. #LBF25

There’s currently 10% off website prices if you’d like to book a writing retreat in Feb or March. Contact us for details and get your 2025 projects going! Www.kalewatercottage.co.uk

@rspb.bsky.social Big Garden Birdwatch has always been a holiday in my house but it’ll be extra special this year: first time counting birds with our wee boy, who already loves bird-spotting! @rspbscotland.bsky.social @samueltongue.bsky.social

Hello, #Poetry and #Translation people of Bluesky! We're still very new here – and we'd love to connect with some of our friends from Twitter. Do send us a follow request and we will try and follow everyone back. We miss you!

On Thursday, @annierutherford.bsky.social, Vineet Lal and I will battle it out with the machines to determine who is the better translator. Can't wait to show AI who is boss! @goetheinstitut.bsky.social Glasgow www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ve...

A 1970s/80s classic by Michael Ende. First published in German as Die unendliche Geschichte in 1979, published in English translation by Ralph Manheim in 1983, followed by a movie in 1984 directed by Wolfgang Petersen. For many the first taste of #worldkidlit! What was your first translated read?

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It's that time of year! Sign up to receive a poem a day by email throughout advent, with poems by some fantastic contemporary poets. Sign-ups are by donation, with all money going to Medicins Sans Frontieres / Doctors without Borders (@MSF_uk). book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...