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YouTube video by Translators Aloud Samantha Pious reads from CACTUS FLOWERS: SELECTED POEMS, Judith Teixeira (Headmistress Press, 2025)

We couldn't be more delighted to share translator Samantha Pious's reading from CACTUS FLOWERS, a collection of poems from the Roaring '20s by Judith Teixeira, (1880–1959) perhaps the only bisexual woman poet to participate openly in Lisbon’s modernist literary scene. Enjoy! youtu.be/_4jTvNHd_bk

FREE BOOK EVENT🎟️📚

Join us tomorrow at @bookcornerhx.bsky.social w/ authors David Barnett, Lesley McEvoy & M.Y Alam for readings and chat about 'The Book of Bradford', a new anthology in celebration of @bradford2025.co.uk 🎉

Free entry but RSVP👇🎟️
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🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2

Friday morning plans: get cozy with @southwestreview.bsky.social’s THE HORROR ISSUE.

Poeta angolana Ana Paula Tavares conquista o Prêmio Camões 2025

Angolan poet & historian Ana Paula Tavares has won the 2025 Camões Prize for literature in the Portuguese language!

"Awarding the prize to Ana Paula Tavares celebrates the strength and beauty of Lusophone literature," said Brazil's culture minister, Margareth Menezes.

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Published today: A literary celebration of Christmas south of the equator where the holiday falls in Brazilian summer and festivities are punctuated by rhythms of surf and samba. It's the tenth volume in the New Vessel Press holiday anthology series.

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Delighted to have one of my translations in this book. Just look at that cover! 💚🇧🇷🎄

It's #BannedBooksWeek! @everylibrary.bsky.social is
hosting Samar Yazbek, one of Syria’s most fearless literary voices, and renowned literary agent Yasmina Jraissati for a conversation about censorship & Arabic literature.

Friday, 10/9 at 5pm EDT www.youtube.com/watch?v=znZ7...

My translation of “Legs” by Evgenia Nekrasova, a Baba Yaga origin story set in modernity, is now available to read and listen to in full. Deep gratitude to @khoreo.bsky.social for featuring this tale. I hope you give it a bit of your time: www.khoreomag.com/translation/...

Rose Facchini reads from Maico Morellini's INN OF THE SURVIVORS (Snuggly Books, 2025) A visionary tale of climate dystopia, mystery, and longing for a lost world. Amid the mists of the Po Valley forests and a desolate Adriatic, this is both an existential story of homesickness and a…

Delighted to feature @rosefacchini.bsky.social reading from INN OF THE SURVIVORS, out now from @snugglybooks.bsky.social, a visionary & highly relevant tale of climate dystopia, mystery, and longing for a lost world set amid the mists of the Po Valley forests and a desolate Adriatic.

Current translation grant opportunities - English PEN

Our translation grants – #PENTranslates, including PEN Translates x SALT, and #PENPresents: Brazil – are NOW OPEN for submissions!

Find out more, apply & share ⤵️
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Front cover of "Midnight Timetable"

Bora Chung's signature inside the book.

PUBLISHED TODAY.

"Midnight Timetable", the new literary horror collection from Bora Chung, author of the phenomenal "Cursed Bunny"

We have a few SIGNED copies!

You can get one HERE.

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12 Must-Read Books of October 2025 - Chicago Review of Books Here are the 12 books you need to read this October.

Whether you crave a comfort read or (like our EIC @mbwwelch.bsky.social) something unsettling and all-around spooky come the start of October, this year brings us plenty of new books to look forward to!
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Diving Board · Invisible Publishing by Tomás Downey Translated by Sarah Moses 192 pages / 8" x 5" Forthcoming 7 October 2025 FICTION / World Literature / Argentina / Hispanic & Latino / Science Fiction / Short Stories

Starting DIVING BOARD by Tomás Downey, tr from the Spanish by Sarah Moses, from Invisible Publishing invisiblepublishing.com/product/divi...

#SFinTranslation

(Slightly belated) happy International Translators Day to all our members and friends!

Happy #InternationalTranslationDay! What better way to celebrate than with a nomination of A Carnival of Atrocities to the Cercador Prize! Congratulations @furiousleeper.bsky.social and Natalia Garcia Freire!

www.cercadorprize.com

What does it cost to produce a book? Why small presses in the UK are struggling - and what can be done about it.

An article on the pressures on publishing, rising costs, what can be done about it - and how readers can also help.

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(This ran in the Society of Authors quarterly, The Author, earlier this year. They've kindly given me permission to reproduce it on my Substack.)

Consider the Snail — The Dial “In writing about snails, I wanted to write about slowness and strangeness, solitude and death, hibernation and estivation.”

I have a new translation up at @thedialmag.bsky.social, Lauren Bastide's Courir l'escargot, which we're calling Consider the Snail. I loved this book & was so happy to get to translate some excerpts from it, about slowness, failure, grief, alterity, cycles, & goo www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

Such a wonderful day at @bkbookfest.bsky.social today! Thank you to everyone for coming out to say Hi and snag a signed copy of @jeremytiang.bsky.social‘s State of Emergency!

In this tour de force of auto-journalism, Anna Pazos explores the end of youth and the beginning of adulthood for the global nomad generation. We are taken on a journey from the ‘Mediterranean… Charlotte Coombe & Laura McGloughlin read from Anna Pazos' KILLING THE NERVE (Foundry Editions 2025)

KILLING THE NERVE by annapazos.bsky.social, co-translated by cmctranslations.bsky.social & Laura McGloughlin is OUT THIS WEEK, published by Foundry Editions. "This novel will hit like a revelation; restless, questioning, and indelible." buff.ly/sJQqwNm

I’m running to be elected to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors! Voting closes 22 October! 🗳️ 📖

Yesterday the brilliant Julia Sanches gave her fellow PELTA members a fascinating & valuable insight into the intricacies of translation contract negotiation.

PELTA regularly offers such workshops to its members - if you're a translator working in Portuguese & aren't yet a member, why not join us?

Corruption And The Natural World In ‘A Carnival Of Atrocities’ | Hola Cultura Stripped of her family, home and identity by the supposedly pious people of Cocuán, all that is left for Mildred is her hatred. In her rage, she curses the

"Entrancing in its imagery and themes, “A Carnival of Atrocities” promises exactly what its title evokes: a nightmarish journey into the depravity of the human soul." @holaculturadc.bsky.social @furiousleeper.bsky.social

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THE BOOK OF BRADFORD #Giveaway 📚

Can you name the 10 #Bradford landmarks on The Book of Bradford cover?

First person to like, share & answer all 10 correctly will receive a copy of this upcoming anthology specially commissioned for @bradford2025.co.uk! 🥳

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Future refugees The three novellas in Sololand, Hassan Blasim’s fourth work of fiction, confront the reader with uncomfortable home truths about life in Iraq – and

‘Blasim’s demotic documentary tone is not just authentic, it is also revolutionary in form... The result is prose as urgent and innovative in its style as it is uncompromising in its content.’ -
@thetls.bsky.social

✍️ Alev Adil on 'Sololand' by Hassan Blasim

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Natalia García Freire A Carnival of Atrocities Victor Meadowcroft Explorations

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Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal & Nick Antosca Adapting Coming-Of-Age Horror Novel ‘Jawbone’ For TV Monica Ojeda's novel Jawbone is being developed for television by Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, and Nick Antosca.

🐊🐊🐊 Extremely cool news!!! @monaojedaf.bsky.social !!!
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Book with off white background & title, River in an Ocean: essays on translation. With blue image by Pakistani artist Lala Rukh of moonlit river on an ocean & names of all contributors. Edited by Nuzhat Abbas

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