Exciting news 📣 The Feminist Translation Network will be at the Birmingham Literature Festival next month with some brilliant events. Don’t miss 'Translating South Asian Literature: A Feminist Approach with Kavita Bhanot'✍🏽 Register here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/bir...

Want to learn about translation with International Booker Prize winning writer-translator, Deepa Bhasthi? Now is your chance!

Check out out this awesome new publishing project: HYPHEN! "A constellation of ventures dedicated to bridging India's multilingual literary heritage with the world, through translation and publication." www.the-hyphen.in/#home

📣 Applications are OPEN for BCLT Translators-in-Residence 2026! ✨ We're offering two BCLT translation residencies for UK-based literary translators. Find out more: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c... #LiteraryTranslation #Translation #CallForTranslators

Publishers and translators! Don't forget to apply to SALT's Travel Grant Program before September 30th! salt.humanities.uchi...

📚 Lit from Taiwan w. @linkinglionking.bsky.social 📚 Malayalam w. @vivarthaka.bsky.social 📚 Marathi w. Sachin Ketkar 📚 Poetry from Hong Kong w. @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social 📚 Prose from Hong Kong w. @jacqlyy.bsky.social 📚 Sinhala w. Liyanage Amarakeerthi 📚 Swedish w. @rakelwb.bsky.social

📣 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.

Opportunity alert! Our friends @southasiaspeaks.bsky.social are accepting applications for their fellowship program now through Sept. 30 from emerging translators living in South Asia. Learn more & apply here: www.southasiaspeaks.org/fellowship/. Good luck to all!

SALT's Travel Grant Program is now open for applications! This year we will be offering grants to both publishers and translators of literature from South Asian languages into English. Learn more about how to apply here: salt.humanities.uchi...

📣 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

🎉 It's here! The schedule-at-a-glance for our upcoming conference, ALTA48: Visions and Versions, which will be held November 5-8 in Tucson, AZ, is LIVE! Check it out now to see the panels, workshops, readings, events and more we have lined up for you in Tucson this November! buff.ly/6KmX2u2

APPLY: Lithuanian is one of the languages of the wonderful Emerging Translator Mentorship @writerscentre.bsky.social this year, and I’m v happy to return as a mentor. Please share this opportunity with people interested in translation, literature and languages ✍️📚🇱🇹 Deadline: 31 Aug. Link below!

📣 Applications are OPEN for the @cw-indiatrust.bsky.social Fellowship 2025/26📣 The successful applicant will be in residence at BCLT for 8 weeks from Monday 19th January – Saturday 14th March 2026. Apply by 14 September 2025 📅 Find out more: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

📣 Applications are OPEN for the @cw-indiatrust.bsky.social Fellowship 2025/26📣 The successful applicant will be in residence at BCLT for 8 weeks from Monday 19th January – Saturday 14th March 2026. Apply by 14 September 2025 📅 Find out more: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

We're thrilled to announce 2025 International Booker Prize winner Deepa Bhasthi as Wasafiri's inaugural International Translator in Residence, in partnership with The SALT (South Asian Literature in Translation) Project! Full announcement: buff.ly/sMjex7E

ANNAH, INFINITE comes out AUG 19. Terima Kasih Byk kl sdh pesan. Pre-orders mean a lot to authors, so I’m v thankful for all yr support. Enormously grateful for this blurb from Preti Taneja. (Blurbers are part of this book, readers are part of this book 🙏🏼) www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infini...

“Mepo had worked hard to plow the field and make it as pliable as a soft mattress. Forget about weeds; he did not leave even a single stray blade of grass standing.” A story by Jhaverchand Meghani, translated from the Gujarati by Jenny Bhatt @jennybhatt. buff.ly/R1lWe61

There are just ✨5 slots left ✨ in the Summer ALTA Multilingual Translation Workshops, which will be held August 18-23. Don't miss your opportunity to come together in a small group of translators with the stellar Arunava Sinha or Shelley Fairweather-Vega over Zoom. Register today!

Great submission opportunity for translators!

Narendra Pachkhédé on C.M. Naim who "refused both the nostalgia of the diaspora and the sentimentality of cultural nationalism. His was a critical love – tender, exacting, and utterly unsentimental."

Thila Varghese, my @saltatchicago.bsky.social @littranslate.bsky.social mentee, is a Finalist for the Gabo Prize! Pls read her translation from Tamil of Sukirtharani’s ‘Those who were born with the land’. Tamil original included: lunchticket.org/those-who-we...

I took my time over this collection of essays, and recommend that you do too. These writers present readers with much to consider when thinking about translation—from personal stories of getting into the work, thoughts on how to cope with racism and … 💙📚 hararereview.wordpress.com/2025/06/18/r...

A huge congratulations to Mehdi Khawaja, winner of the @armorysqprize.bsky.social for his translation from Kashmiri of To Their His Own Hell, by Akhtar Mohiuddin! 💐💐💐

Congratulations to Mehdi Khawaja, winner of this year's Armory Square Prize! His translation of Akhtar Mohiuddin's To Each Their Own Hell was chosen by our jury as this year's top entry in a very impressive field of translated works.

Our 2025 shortlist and winner were announced this morning during a joint livestream event with our friends at @himalmag.bsky.social! Our thanks to the folks at Himal and to our five finalists for sharing their work and time with us. Meet the full shortlist here: www.armorysv.com/2025-prize-w...

Watch former SALT mentee Aditya Vikram Shrivastava read their translation from the Hindi of an excerpt from the novel Miljul Mann by Mridula Garg! www.youtube.com/watc...

There is ONE WEEK LEFT to submit a panel or workshop proposal for ALTA48: Visions and Versions, our annual conference being held in Tucson, AZ from November 5-8! We want to know what you want to see at this year's conference. Learn more & submit by June 16! literarytranslators.org/event/alta-48/

Calling all teachers and budding young translators! #SSTPoetryPrize2025 is open for entries! Translate into English any poem from any language, or a Portuguese poem from our Spotlight booklet, for your chance to join the SSP hall of eternal fame! www.stephen-spender.org/stephen-spen...

📣 There are just two weeks left to propose a panel or workshop for ALTA48: Visions and Versions, our conference being held November 5-8 in Tucson, AZ! Show us what you'd like to see at this year's ALTA conference. Find out more & submit a proposal by June 16! literarytranslators.org/event/alta-48/

A reminder: the deadline to apply for PEN x SALT grants for translators and publishers of South Asian literature is May 31, 2025! www.englishpen.org/t...

Two Lines has an open call for literature from Asia and Oceania. Deadline July 6, 2025: www.catranslation.or...

Our very own Danny Hahn on translation and the latest International Booker Prize winner Heart Lamp, written by Banu Mushtaq and translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi: www.thetimes.com/cul...

Celebrate the art, politics & labour of feminist, decolonial publishing & translation with 20% off our books #riverinanocean & #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar Visit tracepress.org & use discount code at checkout: ReadTheWorld #ReadTheWorld ALTA : May 12-27 @littranslate.bsky.social

A finalist for the @‌armorysqprize.bsky.social , this story by Anuradha Sarma Pujari (tr. @arunikashyap.bsky.social ) narrates the intense atmoshpere at a student hostel in Delhi. buff.ly/FuK7y0q

Delighted to share my translation of Anuradha Sarma Pujari's story @wwborders.bsky.social wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Thank you, @terribleman.com, for this wonderful review of Geetanjali Shree’s Our City that Year!

Manjula Padmanabhan reviews Anti-Caste SF in India Today: www.indiatoday.in/magazine/lei...

Enormous congrats to @shreedaisy.bsky.social on UK publication of OUR CITY THAT YEAR, her newest tr. of Geetanjali Shree, out now w @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social! ✨🌟✨💫

📣 Applications are OPEN for the ESLT Summer School 📣 Join 25 translators & educators from Europe for 3 days of lectures, seminars & workshops. Apply by 30 April 2025 ✍️ www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

Excited to get a shoutout from Geethanjali Shree in this interview on her latest work to appear in English, Our City That Year: pen.org/geentanjali-...