#InternationalTranslationDay (is every day at trace press)

#InternationalTranslationDay (is every day at trace press)

What does it mean to write or translate from an antiracist, feminist, queer, & decolonial lens? These are questions we explore in all our books at trace —where every day is #InternationalTranslationDay #riverinanocean #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar #TamilTerrains

The Giller prize whines that it’d be forced to close without federal funds. MOST small presses in Canada would be forced to shut down without federal funding. What do you think deserves funding—a [z]family-run prize often awarded to ‘big 5’ books—or small presses like trace?

Coming Next Month (as counterprogramming to the Frankfurt Book Fair): The 2025 Palestinian Liberatory Book Fair: arablit.org/2025/09/30/c...

We strongly condemn the summoning of Egyptian poet Ahmed Douma for the fifth time in the past year by the Supreme State Security Prosecution on fresh charges. He was released on bail of 50,000 EGP. Egypt must end its use of judicial harassment to intimidate government critics. @penmena.bsky.social

Only 2 days left for 20% off 📚🌞 September #TranslationMonth 🌊 #riverinanocean & 🌹 #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar Buy direct from our website & support trace’s unique (& challenging) work as a bipoc/ feminist-run publisher tracepress.org/products/ara...

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

This is excellent and thoughtful and you should get it

Tix for the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival are now available. The festival opens Oct 9 with a live performance from Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, followed by three days of award-winning films, discussions with artists, a culinary workshop & a children's program dcpfaf25.eventive.org/schedule

📚🌞 20% off in Sept #TranslationMonth 🌊 #riverinanocean & 🌹 #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar Buy direct from our website & support trace’s unique (& challenging) work as a bipoc/ feminist-run literary press. tracepress.org/products/riv...

📚🌞 20% off in Sept #TranslationMonth 🌊 #riverinanocean & 🌹 #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar Buy direct from our website & support trace’s unique (& challenging) work as a bipoc/ feminist-run literary press. tracepress.org/products/riv...

The 2025 Austin Clarke Prize is open for submissions! This year's prize will be judged by Iryn Tushabe (fiction) & Faith Arkorful (poetry). To learn more & submit your work: ex-puritan.ca/news/the-202...

Some responses to US event, from Trinidad to Uganda, shows how far & deep US evangelical networks run. Time to re-read Iryn Tushabe’s brilliant memoir-essay “Saved” on colonialism, religion & language in Uganda in #riverinanocean (essays on translation) #TranslationMonth

Chile, Afghanistan, Iraq… the threads extend before & after 2001. our hearts are still with those tortured, those killed in the millions, those children of Iraq that were called ‘collateral damage.’

🌹Thinking of you, dear readers, as we unpack 2nd print run of #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar 🌹 Read the poems alone, in groups & in public. Please order from our website & local bookstores in Canada & US. We also have a European distributor so email us to ask.

🌹Thinking of you, dear readers, as we unpack 2nd print run of #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar 🌹 Read the poems alone, in groups & in public. Please order from our website & local bookstores in Canada & US. We also have a European distributor so email us to ask.

Beware the warmonger. And the capitalist who sees a buck in death.

📚#TranslateMonth A time for closure (yes, #TamilTerrains is almost ready to print!) & boxes of our 2nd print-run for #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar just arrived… & a time for new beginnings—signing contracts & receiving manuscripts for trace’s 🌶️award-winning 2026 & 2027 lists.

In this bilingual poetry anthology edited by Norah Alkharashi and Yasmine Haj, “language dissolves into cities, landscapes, or portals that open to rubble, or only air.” Read ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR (@tracepress.bsky.social) this #NationalTranslationMonth: tracepress.org/products/ara...

As #WomenInTranslationMonth comes to an end (& #TranslationMonth begins… revisiting World Literature Today’s review of #riverinanocean our feminist decolonial collection of essays on translation

We need your voice now to support arts and culture in Canada! Please send a letter through our campaign. We need all who care about culture - business leaders, students, artists, audiences, everyone - to submit a letter before Sept 15. canadianartscoalition.com/campaign-for-culture-2025/

🩸Their blood is their mosques… their churches, windows to their homes, their love and their anger, a piercing reproach —Ibrahim Nasrallah (trans. Eman Abukhadra) 🩸

🩸Their blood is their mosques… their churches, windows to their homes, their love and their anger, a piercing reproach —Ibrahim Nasrallah (trans. Eman Abukhadra) 🩸

Some people think that nonwhite people are just here to inspire you. That this is our role in politics and intellectual work.

Read the poems “A Lonely Man Walks on the Bridge by Samar Diab, translated from Arabic by Nofel; and “Their Blood” by Ibrahim Nasrallah, translated by Eman Abukhadra. (& thanks to @alllitupcanada.bsky.social for featuring these powerful & poems)

Read the poems “A Lonely Man Walks on the Bridge by Samar Diab, translated from Arabic by Nofel; and “Their Blood” by Ibrahim Nasrallah, translated by Eman Abukhadra. (& thanks to @alllitupcanada.bsky.social for featuring these powerful & poems)

At least 100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 61 in Gaza City, as Al Jazeera reports intensified strikes in the north while Israel prepares to seize Gaza City aje.io/io4cij

It’s #WomenInTranslation month— thrilled to note that #riverinanocean is now taught in Translation & creative writing programs around the world! “Translation, here, is decolonial feminist work." – from the Foreword by Françoise Vergès

Beautiful #review of #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar “This collection of poems travelling …between English & Arabic, here & there, the future & the past, are like Fadwa Tuqan’s wish ‘to rid this planet of the nightmare of war,’ a wish to save our dreams from being lost in translation.” (Herizons, 39:2)

There are numerous ‘book deserts’ in Canada (where only those monopolistic “I” bookstores set up camp). We need more BIPOC-run/centred independent bookstores in our urban/suburban communities! Our people read—in multiple languages.

Beautiful #review of #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar “This collection of poems travelling …between English & Arabic, here & there, the future & the past, are like Fadwa Tuqan’s wish ‘to rid this planet of the nightmare of war,’ a wish to save our dreams from being lost in translation.” (Herizons, 39:2)

Looking back to the June 2023 launch of #riverinanocean & forward to our beautiful 2025-2026 books… @alllitupcanada.bsky.social invited us to tell trace’s publishing story. alllitup.ca/in-house-wit...

Available from @tracepress.bsky.social and on Bookshop (affiliate link): bookshop.org/a/90290/9781...

" I began trace with no money, and few connections within the Canadian publishing sector." We hear from the publisher of @tracepress.bsky.social about its origins and publishing program in this edition of In House. alllitup.ca/in-house-with-trace-press/

YES! (recalling Richard Fung’s 1996 film « Dirty Laundry » that queers the nation-building railway narrative.)

What’s most interesting about ndugu Zohran’s win is watching the reactions… (meanwhile folks in Uganda & South Africa connecting dots & chai on M Sr. at UCT & Makarere)

Sign & share. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The #StrongBordersAct threatens human rights, refugee and migrant rights, and privacy of all residents of Canada. "We believe Bill C-2 cannot be fixed," the joint letter reads. "The cost of its appeasement—and resulting betrayal of Canadian interests and democratic values—is unacceptably high."

These military parades, these obscene arms sales, these ‘global’ leaders meeting on stolen lands, these complicit nations, these technologies, these billionaires, these bombs, these drones, these betrayals The dead, the dead, the dead, & all of us who refuse to forget them.

River in an Ocean advances a position that’s even more compelling now in our globalised world, that translation is crucial for increasing connection and understanding, but also that it’s important to preserve the diversity that causes us to need translation in the first place.

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...

♥️Thank you to all our readers & supporters. #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar has sold out. More copies & ebook out soon… We hope these poems bring solace, & remind us of interconnected spaces & struggles.

Starts tonight

Eid Mubarak to our friends & beloveds, to those standing together at al-Aqsa & in the open sea, & to the children of Gaza. —& if you wish to give a gift of poetry & support the Sameer Project please buy #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar at @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social with @workshops4gaza.bsky.social

📌 « Can you get funding? Mention the hell out of it. »

Writers who refused to add their names since Oct 2023 are suddenly signing petitions in 2025, & no doubt book deals. Did they take all this time to contemplate genocide with ‘nuance’? — we remember the names of all who resisted silencing & spoke out from the start.

Glad Day has been such a vital queer hub, forced out of Church St by gentrification— Please support their move to Queen west.

Apply: Two Free Spots in ‘Bristol Translates’ Summer School An anonymous donor is sponsoring two spots for the Arabic-English strand with Sawad Hussain in the Bristol Translates summer school taking place this July 7th-11th.

600 DAYS OF GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE. The world watches as Palestinians are bombed, abducted, tortured, starved, and burned to death.