Deadline EXTENDED! Register by 12 January for the final spots on the Jan-Feb courses: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... Learn more about the Literature Fires the Imagination project: www.stephen-spender.org/literature-f... #CreativeTranslation #edusky #curriculumforwales

ICYMI: @grantamag.bsky.social published poems from the Poetry in Translation Prize shortlist. The inaugural winner of the prize will be announced in January 2026. Read them here: granta.com/the-poetry-i...

We are delighted to invite MFL teachers to attend our 2026 webinar series, organised as part of the Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators competition launch. Come along to learn about the Prize, meet the judges, and try your hand at creative translation from Mandarin! Full details below 🔽

What do Ursula Le Guin, Diana Bellessi, and Karan Kurose have in common? They're all featured in our essay anthology, Living in Language: International reflections for the practising poet! For this week only, read two of the essays from the anthology on the PTC website FOR FREE! buff.ly/rZxRxC9

Exciting news! 📣 We are delighted to announce the workshop strands for the BCLT Literary Translation Summer School 2026. Next year’s Summer School will take place online from Monday 20 July – Friday 24 July 2026. Bursaries are available. Find out more and apply: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

There's still time to register for free Creative Translation training! Register by 5 Jan to book your place on the final spots for the Jan-Feb courses: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... Learn more about the Literature Fires the Imagination project: www.stephen-spender.org/literature-f... #edusky

📣ANNOUNCING THE 2025 POETRY IN TRANSLATION PRIZE SHORTLIST📣 Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions are pleased to announce the shortlist for the inaugural Poetry in Translation Prize. Read more about the shortlist here: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/2025/12/anno...

It’s that time of year again… Welcome to the Anthea Bell Prize Christmas Draw for Teachers! 🎄 Tell us about your experience of the Anthea Bell Prize so far this year by 23:59 on Sunday 14th December 2025 and you will be entered into our Christmas Draw...

The #PoetryByHeart festive elves have been busy packing up our competition packs to send out to schools. That's over 2,000 packs bursting with resources! If you haven't registered for our 2026 competition, there's still time ❤️ Head over to our website for more - poetrybyheart.org.uk/register

OUT NOW! The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus Guest-edited by Jessica Sequeira Featuring artwork by Phoebe Giannisi ('Aegis') Buy this issue: buy.stripe.com/5kQeVedZOgRY... See full contents: modernpoetryintranslation.com/magazine/the...

Your annual reminder that we have a bank of festive poetry learning resources, free to download on our resources site Poetryclass! Teachers, students, parents & poetry learners everywhere, check them out at bit.ly/FestivePoetryResources We'll be adding a special new poem & resource soon... 👀 🎄 ⛄

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What an honour it has been to judge the Stephen Spender Trust’s #PortugueseSpotlight Prize, with entries by KS1–5 students from across the UK! Today’s celebration event with winners and commendees, teachers and judges, truly illustrated the transformative power of creative translation.

Congratulations to all winners and commendees, and thank you to everyone who entered the Stephen Spender Prize 2025! Read the winning translations, judges’ commentaries and more: www.stephen-spender.org/stephen-spen... #SSTPoetryPrize2025 #PortugueseSpotlight #youngpoets @georgianasseh.bsky.social

This Wednesday 19 November! Join us online 6pm-7:30pm to celebrate the winners of the Stephen Spender Prize 2025 and another wonderful year of #CreativeTranslation at the Stephen Spender Trust. Book tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stephen-sp... #SSTPoetryPrize2025 #PortugueseSpotlight #youngpoets

Join Deepa Bhasthi – our inaugural International Translator in Residence – for her second online workshop next Saturday, 22 November. This is a unique opportunity for an intimate learning experience with an International Booker Prize-winning translator.

Only two days until our Moving Forward with Languages online conference! Designed for Higher and Advanced Higher learners, teachers can find the full programme and register their class here: https://loom.ly/42qIULk

Only 1 week to go! Celebrate with us! Featuring the winners of the Stephen Spender Prize 2025 and many of the young people, teachers, translators, judges and poets involved in this year's prize and school programmes. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stephen-sp... #SSTPoetryPrize2025 #PortugueseSpotlight

Not to be missed: two events coming up with Phoebe Giannisi in Oxford and Cambridge! Cambridge: Friday 14th November with translator Brian Sneeden www.ccgs.csah.cam.ac.uk/events/poetr... And in Oxford on 17 November with Brian Sneeden and A. E. Stallings www.ox.ac.uk/event/phoebe...

The 2026 @poetrybyheart.bsky.social competition is open! > 128K young people took part last year. See how they did it in a preview of Poetry By Heart:The Movie bit.ly/PBHMoviePreview ⬇️ Great to see teachers Gareth & Alex featured, both part of our school projects! Sign up ➡️ poetrybyheart.org.uk

⭐ Coming up on 8 December: Come ready to twist, knot, and tangle words in exciting, unexpected ways—and leave with a brand-new body of multilingual work! poetrysociety.org.uk/event/online...

2 weeks to go! Join us online on 19 November 6pm-7:30pm to celebrate the winners of the Stephen Spender Prize 2025 and another wonderful year of #CreativeTranslation at the Stephen Spender Trust! Book free tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stephen-sp... #SSTPoetryPrize2025 #poetry #multilingualism

Poems that travel continents. Art that transcends borders. Voices that refuse silence. Volume 5 has arrived 📖✨ Get your copy today and let these words travel with you. othersideofhope.com/read--shop.html #theothersideofhope #migrantvoices #wordstravel #refugeeliterature

We love when publishers treat translation as part of the art. @northsouthbooks.bsky.social Editorial Director Alisah Niehaus Berger talks about nurturing bilingual books, amplifying new voices and giving translators cover credit 📖❤️ #WorldKidLit #Translation #kidlit worldkidlit.org/2025/10/21/m...

A massive congratulations are due to two of our long-standing collaborators Leo Boix and Juana Adcock for their shortlistings for the 2025 Forward Prize for Best Collection! Celebrate with us with 20% off their books on the PTC webshop until midnight this Sunday! poetrytranslation.org/shop

🎉 Congratulations to the top 15 winners of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year 2025! The winners were chosen by judges Will Harris and Colette Bryce, and were announced today at the @britishlibrary in London. Read the winning poems at bit.ly/FoyleYoungPoets 🌟

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Our latest #CreativeTranslation Digest has landed! Find all the key dates for the 2025-26 school year and info about current projects and competitions: mailchi.mp/13888ab10a75... #SSTPoetryPrize #edusky @translationexch.bsky.social

Translated by David Colmer! Why not use #CreativeTranslation to engage your students with poetry for #NationalPoetryDay? Free resources: www.stephen-spender.org/resources/ @davidcolmer.bsky.social @theemmapress.bsky.social @edwardvandevendel.bsky.social @poetrydayuk.bsky.social #play #poetry

This International Translation Day, we're thrilled to announce two events with Anton Hur in London! Anton will deliver a workshop and lecture on translation, Korean literature, literary prize culture, and more. Click here for full details and registration: buff.ly/uQNOJRb

Calling all International Language teachers in Wales! Be part of our exciting new project funded by the Welsh Government! Register interest in the professional learning programme: forms.office.com/e/rP9UruPsrr Full details: www.stephen-spender.org/literature-f... #CreativeTranslation #edusky

#MFL teachers: exciting news! The Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators - a free languages competition for students 11-18 studying French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish - launches again on 19/09. Register to receive teaching packs in time for EU Day of Languages! tinyurl.com/mue8r7hc

There are still a few tickets left for our International Translation Day event next week! Book now & join us at @conwayhall.bsky.social for a 2-part conversation exploring pressing questions for the craft, business & ethics of translation. #ITD2025 Book now ⤵️ www.englishpen.org/translation/...

Sarah Olive and Furzeen Ahmed share insights from the Diverse Literature in Schools project, highlighting a lack of Global Majority authors and sharing resources for schools and parents to discover a more representative literary landscape. www.nate.org.uk/2025/09/24/s...

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Are you ready for the #EuropeanDayofLanguages on 26 Sept?? Explore our free #CreativeTranslation resources and class projects covering a range of European languages (and many more!) www.stephen-spender.org/resources/ #edusky #edl2025 #EDLangs

NEW ONLINE: Ehlobo (‘Summer’) by N.S. Sigogo Translated from isiNdebele by Stephen Walsh modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/summer-2/ Published in the latest MPT: Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature

Calling all International Language teachers in Wales! Be part of our exciting new project funded by the Welsh Government! Register interest in the #CreativeTranslation professional learning programme: forms.office.com/e/rP9UruPsrr Full details: www.stephen-spender.org/literature-f... #edusky

Intrigued by #WorldKidLitMonth but not sure where to start? Our website is for you! We've featured children’s/YA books from 180+ countries and translated from 100+ languages. Search bar on every page, 550+ blog posts and dozens of reading lists. Happy exploring! worldkidlit.org/read-the-wor...

We are delighted to announce the shortlist for our Michael Murphy Poetry Prize! englishassociation.ac.uk/michael-murp... Winner announced on #NationalPoetryDay! @carcanet.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social

September is World Kid Lit Month: a month for everyone of any age to explore the world through international children’s books. How to take part? Simply read a book for young people from another country. If you use social media, share what you’ve enjoyed with the hashtag #WorldKidLitMonth

🎉 The 2026 Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation is now open! 🎉 Chair of Judges Mona Kareem says: "This special prize has introduced us to poets from across the globe, whose poems evoke and inspire and agitate, and for that I am excited to read the work of every entrant!" buff.ly/kbb7re9

Did you know that September is #WorldKidLitMonth? The month for everyone of any age to explore the world through international children’s books! 💡 Head over to the World Kid Lit blog for book recs from over 180 countries: buff.ly/plKVZ5g ☀️ Happy travels wherever you fly by book!

It's World Kid Lit Month: the annual celebration of international children's literature🎉 We kick things off with children’s librarian, author, and blogger extraordinaire Betsy Bird @fuse8.bsky.social! What will you be reading this month? worldkidlit.org/2025/09/01/k... #WorldKidLitMonth

Join The Poetry Society for a vibrant evening of poetry from Malaysian and Malaysian-heritage poets in the UK with readings from Nina Mingya Powles, L Kiew and Yee Heng Yeh alongside screenings of poetry films from the Peat on Earth project. Free tickets here: poetrysociety.org.uk/event/past-m...

The latest edition of @mptmagazine.bsky.social also features the winning poem from the Stephen Spender Prize 2024! Scrúdú (Exam) by Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha translated by Ellen Corbett: www.stephen-spender.org/first-prize-... modernpoetryintranslation.com/magazine/rhy...

OUT NOW! MPT Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature With poems by Kenzaburō Ōe, Marina Tsvetaeva, Dalia Taha, Begoña Ugalde and many others. Guest-edited by Jessica Sequeira modernpoetryintranslation.com

Next week! Join Stephen Spender Prize runner-up Mike Baynham & co-translator Jiyar Homer for the launch of Dilawar Karadaghi’s My Country’s Hair Turned White Mon 18 Aug 5pm-6:30pm at @ucl.ac.uk Featuring bilingual readings of the poems! Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/my-country... #poetrysky #xl8

Calling all International Language teachers in Wales! Be part of our exciting new project funded by the Welsh Government! Register interest in the professional learning programme: forms.office.com/e/rP9UruPsrr Full details: www.stephen-spender.org/literature-f... #CurriculumForWales #edusky