Wendy Call

Sign the Petition AWP: Don’t Censor Conference Attendees

AWP (Associated Writers & Writing Programs) is banning dissent and curtailing free speech at their annual conference. Consider expressing your concern at this sign-on letter. www.change.org/p/awp-don-t-...

Call for Applications: A series co-editor for Best Literary Translations 2027 — Deep Vellum The Best Literary Translations co-editors are looking for a new editor with expertise in Middle Eastern literatures. The Best Literary Translations is an annual anthology that has been published by De...

We are looking for a new series co-editor for Best Literary Translations! Deadline to apply is Monday, August 4! www.deepvellum.org/news/call-fo...

Deep Vellum and Center for the Art of Translation present: Best Literary Translations 2025 — Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery Join Deep Vellum and the Center for the Art of Translation in celebrating the publication of the second annual Best Literary Translations  anthology! Guest edited by Pulitzer Prize winner Cristi...

Bay Area folx! I am coming your way for a book launch at SF's Medicine for Nightmares on Tues, May 27, in conversation with the wonderful multilingual writer / critic Britta Stronmeyer, and would love to see you there! medicinefornightmares.com/events/deep-...

Best Literary Translations 2025 Best Literary Translations redefines the canon of global literatures in English translation, showcasing the brave and brilliant work of contemporary translators and editors. Guest editor: Cristina Riv...

Plenty of grim news out there, but here's one point of light ~ today is pub day for BLT 2025!! Read it for brilliance coming to the U.S. from all over the world, from Algeria to the Faroe Islands to Puel Mapu to Ukraine! store.deepvellum.org/products/bes...

Seattle-area folks ~ Would love to see you at Third Place Books Ravenna on Monday, May 5! www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/wendy-...

“Language as Refuge”: A Letter to the Editor, by Wendy Call & Whitney DeVos Wendy Call & Whitney DeVos respond to a recent column by Veronica Esposito.

Longest letter to the editor I've ever had published (this one co-written with the fabulous Whitney DeVos) is up World Literature Today's website. worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/transla...

Announcing The 2025 PEN America Literary Awards Longlists - PEN America PEN America is honored to announce the Longlists for the 2025 Literary Awards, which will confer over $350,000 to writers and translators.

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All praise to Representatives R Tlaib (MI), M Pocan and G Moore (WI), N Valasquez (NY), D Ramirez (IL), I Omar (MN), J Crockett and A Green (TX), S Lee (PA), A Pressley and J McGovern (MA), L Simon (CA), A Carson (IN), and N Williams (GA) Shame on ALL others. What will happen when they come for you?

REVIEWS — RHINO — How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems, by Mikeas Sánchez - Reviewed by Lúcia Leão Self-translation is an encounter with the Other in us. Every new language brings a new universe, but when the other language is the language of the colonizer, exploring the meaning of that Other “new ...

Even as things grow grim and grimmer in the U.S., poetry shines a light. It's lovely to see this book still getting attention, more than a year after publication. rhinopoetry.org/reviews/mike...

“The Houses of Your Village Have Eyes.” A Poem by Irma Pineda, in Three Languages I first encountered Irma Pineda’s poetry in the Mexico City literary journal Generación in 2005, as I was writing a nonfiction book set in her home region (No Word for Welcome, Nebraska, 2011). Pin…

“The Houses of Your Village Have Eyes.”
A Poem by Irma Pineda, in Three Languages

The houses of your village have eyes
that seek the beach’s sandgrains
in the distance they see the sun
that doesn’t shine on their heads today
doesn’t brighten their shingle-tresses
[...]

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Applications (simple & quick app!) are open for just TWO more days for our nine-day writing & yoga retreat in Oaxaca, Mexico, in late September. Generous scholarships for BIPOC writers! www.wendycall.com/farawaynearb...

Faraway Nearby 2025 Retreat — Wendy Call Description of the Faraway Nearby 2025 Yoga & Writing Retreat

Two more weeks to apply for our September retreat in Oaxaca! (...AKA an eight-day respite from the madness....) www.wendycall.com/farawaynearb...

Thank you!!

Please spread the word! Tomorrow (Jan 8, 2025) is the LAAAAST day to nominate translations for the next edition of Best Literary Translations -- for work published in US magazines & journals in 2024. deepvellum.submittable.com/submit/30860...