Feminist Translation Network

Audrey Kelly

"The Public Shows Up for Feminist Literary Translation!" - read @audreyeileenkelly.bsky.social's report of our #BhamLitFest2025 event with Marilyn Booth, @rudotranslates.bsky.social, Seán McDonagh, @eletenf.bsky.social, Georgia Wall & Anam Zafar:
feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/10/the-...

We definitely felt the buzz at #BhamLitFest2025! So happy that the Feminist Translation Network has been supporting the work of @writingwestmids.bsky.social, bringing literature (and literary translation) to audiences in the West Midlands📚📚📚

Registrations open for this online talk next week by FTN co-lead @olgacastro80.bsky.social at @bcltuea.bsky.social

The six translators plus event chair Rosalind Harvey holding copies of the "Anthology of New Feminist Translations", at The Exchange, Birmingham

Loved seeing a packed room for our book launch on Sat #BhamLitfest2025!

The anthology, published by @theemmapress.bsky.social & featuring work by Marilyn Booth, @rudotranslates.bsky.social, Seán McDonagh, @eletenf.bsky.social, Georgia Wall & Anam Zafar, is free to download: tinyurl.com/42h742h4

Room full of people looking at a panel of speakers. Man in the foreground reading a book

Listening to folk from the Feminist Translation Network (@ftnetwork.bsky.social) talk about their practice as part of Birmingham Literature Festival.

Last chance to grab a free ticket for our book launch tomorrow #BhamLitFest2025

In-person tickets have sold out again but you can still join us online: tinyurl.com/bd63rb4x

In-person tickets for our book launch this coming Sat are available again - thanks to a move to a bigger venue!

🎟️ tinyurl.com/bd63rb4x

With Marilyn Booth, @rudotranslates.bsky.social, Seán McDonagh, @eletenf.bsky.social, Georgia Wall & Anam Zafar

In partnership with @theemmapress.bsky.social

Tickets still available for the workshop this coming Saturday #BhamLitFest25 on feminist approaches to translating South Asian literature, led by Kavita Bhanot

🎟️tinyurl.com/2jk529yk

Presented in partnership with @writingwestmids.bsky.social & @englishpen.bsky.social

It's #BhamLitFest25 week!

Thrilled that the #FTN will be part of the programme for the second year running, with two events on Sat 11 Oct, organised with @writingwestmids.bsky.social, @theemmapress.bsky.social & @englishpen.bsky.social

Full programme here: www.birminghamliteraturefestival.org

A screenshot of an online meeting, featuring 7 people and one illustration of flowers

A screenshot of a Word document with various lines of Arabic and English highlighted in different colours, showing a translation process

A picture of a bedsheet decorated with red ribbon stencils and completely covered in black handwriting

A few months ago we hosted a scratch night for the translators involved in our collab with the Feminist Translation Network. It was an honour to peek behind the scenes of the translations-in-progress, with the translators sharing insights into their processes. Watch the recording: buff.ly/XkswZyU

Main Quad, University College Cork

Translation slam with translators Ruth Donnelly and Eileen O'Connor and chair Elizabeth Rosales Martinez

Thank you to lovely colleagues at University College Cork for hosting an FTN event as part of UCC's Translation Week 2025 - including an inspiring Feminist Translation Slam with @rudotranslates.bsky.social and Eileen O'Connor, expertly chaired by Elizabeth Rosales Martinez

Looking forward to the FTN event at University College Cork next week, part of UCC's "Translation Week" programme for International Translation Day 2025
@olgacastro80.bsky.social @rudotranslates.bsky.social

📢 New blog post by Helen Vassallo about her Feminism and Translation workshop at this year's Bristol Translates summer school:

feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/09/femi...

@translatingwomen.bsky.social @bristoltranslates.bsky.social

Hilary Brown (Principal Investigator), Eleanor Fillingham (undergraduate intern) and Olga Castro (Co-Investigator) at Dragon Hall, Norwich

📢 New blog post by Eleanor Fillingham, our brilliant undergraduate intern! Eleanor, a Classics student at Birmingham Uni, joined the FTN team for six weeks over the summer thanks to the College of Arts and Law Collaborative Research Internship scheme: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/09/the-...

📢 New blog post from Khadidja Merakchi @heriotwattuni.bsky.social about two feminist author-translators from Algeria, Taos Amrouche and Assia Djebar: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/09/from...

Free tickets for book launch at #BhamLitFest25: tinyurl.com/2f7c8dss

Sat 11 Oct, 2-3.30pm, The Exchange (in-person/online)

With Marilyn Booth, @rudotranslates.bsky.social, Seán McDonagh, @eletenf.bsky.social, Georgia Wall & Anam Zafar

@theemmapress.bsky.social
@writingwestmids.bsky.social

Calling all translators with an interest in South Asian literature!

Come and join our workshop at #BhamLitFest25, led by Kavita Bhanot

Sat 11 Oct, 10-12, The Exchange, Birmingham

Tickets: tinyurl.com/2jk529yk

Presented in partnership with @englishpen.bsky.social

@writingwestmids.bsky.social

Great to read that one of our #FeministTranslationNetwork events helped to inspire your PhD project, @rudotranslates.bsky.social!

Panel discussion about 'Feminist Translation and its Audiences'

Photo of speakers and FTN team

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the 'Feminist Translation and its Audiences' events in Norwich yesterday, co-organised with @writerscentre.bsky.social & @bcltuea.bsky.social - a lovely mix of reflections on practice, discussion, and poetry readings
#BCLT2025

National Centre for Writing at Dragon Hall from the outside

View of the inside of Dragon Hall

This is the venue for our #BCLT2025 events today, co-organised with @writerscentre.bsky.social and @bcltuea.bsky.social

Thank you to @hughespeg.bsky.social for a backstage tour of beautiful Dragon Hall before the audiences arrived! 🐉

Looking forward to this discussion about translations of ancient love poetry by feminists and non-feminists through the centuries #BCLT2025

The British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School is in full swing and we can't wait to join you on Wednesday 30 July for our events on feminist translation! #BCLT2025

Last few tickets left for our events on 'Feminist Translation and its Audiences' in Norwich this week, co-organised with @writerscentre.bsky.social and @bcltuea.bsky.social

Booking links here: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/02/even...

Congratulations to FTN member @rudotranslates.bsky.social 🎉

Illustration of a bunch of flowers with text 'An Anthology of New Feminist Translations'

Book launch coming soon!

Sat 11 Oct, 2-3.30pm

With Marilyn Booth, @rudotranslates.bsky.social, Seán McDonagh, @eletenf.bsky.social, Georgia Wall, Anam Zafar & Rosalind Harvey

The Exchange, Birmingham & online

Part of Birmingham Literature Festival

Co-organised with @theemmapress.bsky.social

Photo of Kavita Bhanot

Save the date!

Workshop on 'Translating South Asian Literature: A Feminist Approach', facilitated by Kavita Bhanot

Sat 11 Oct, 10-12

The Exchange, Centenary Sq, Birmingham

Part of Birmingham Literature Festival @writingwestmids.bsky.social

Presented in partnership with @englishpen.bsky.social

Brilliant new blog post by Marie Martine about a creative, feminist translation project she ran with undergraduate students in Oxford @queenscollegeox.bsky.social: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/07/femi...

YouTube video by The Emma Press Feminist Translation Network: Scratch Night

What makes a translation 'feminist'? Catch up with translators Marilyn Booth, @rudotranslates.bsky.social, Seán McDonagh, @eletenf.bsky.social, Georgia Wall & Anam Zafar discussing their works-in-progress for a new anthology published by @theemmapress.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAwP...

Delighted to welcome Eleanor Fillingham to the FTN team! Eleanor is a second-year Classics student and will developing web resources linked to our events @writerscentre.bsky.social (30.07.25) as part of the College of Arts & Law Collaborative Research Internship scheme @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Positionalities of Translation Studies This volume explores historical, cultural, linguistic, and anthropocentric influences on Translation Studies (TS). It brings together nuanced, individual, self-…

Our first academic article is now out! 'Feminist Positionalities in Translation Studies' by Hilary Brown & @gabrielasaldanhav.bsky.social in "Positionalities of Translation Studies", ed. Elsherif & Sobesto @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/positiona...