calling all literary translators - does anyone want to talk to me (on the record) about their gendered experience of **working as a translator** including e.g. the pay gap and the motherhood penalty?

Translation notes to my future self

Absolutely beautiful piece about how translators aren't invisible and translation isn't just word for word. "Is translation an art or an action? The answer is both, depending on the original. Literary translation is the translation of art, and so it must itself be art." lithub.com/the-future-w...

Starting a new translation today and already I've had to look up a building on Street View, identified a possible factual error and incorporated some Shakespeare—we're so back.

Two more weeks until the Stevns Translation Prize deadline! There's still time to enter! Tell all of your emerging translator friends: a book published internationally, mentorship, a beautiful retreat with a pond! www.stevnstranslationprize.com

Seriously considering moving FELT (@felttranslators.bsky.social) over from Slack to Discord now that Slack will be deleting content over a year old, especially now I've discovered you can transfer your archive over. Thoughts for or against very welcome!

A great author email quote from the end of 2024: 'Clearly, when Lisa Sinclair asks for things, things happen!' Now just need to decide what to use my newfound powers for first...

Calling all translators! We're building a Bluesky starter pack for emerging and established translators—so that we can follow each other and be in community together on the World Wide Web. If you want to be included, add yourself to this thread, and share this post far and wide with your networks :)

Just submitted my first full-length book translation to the publisher! Announcement coming soon. Now nobody ask me to make any decisions for at least a week because I just made 60,000 in a row 🛌

Trying out a therapeutic version of rejection erasure poetry

FELT has landed on Bluesky! We're a friendly international community of French-to-English literary translators who hang out on Slack. Literary translators at all career stages (aspiring, emerging, established, over it) are very welcome! Grab your invite at felttranslators.wordpress.com ✉️✨