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Instructor at Seattle Central College JP-ENTranslator of GO, Finger Bone,The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park, The Lucky Ride. NEXT: Traveling Practice Info: https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/takami-nieda/
Amplifying! #seattle
28.02.2026 17:30 — 👍 231 🔁 86 💬 9 📌 1Oh, Yuko Ohnari and Koshiro Hata’s Downpour (tr. me) is in here 🥰👦🏻☔️🥳
25.01.2026 06:33 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Early career translators, get yourself a grant right here! #Translation
25.01.2026 02:28 — 👍 24 🔁 25 💬 0 📌 3Living within earshot of Lumen Field means hearing when the Seahawks score a full minute earlier than the broadcast and the rest of the world does 💙💚💙💚. #GoHawks
26.01.2026 01:50 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0We need the players unions of every professional sport to refuse to play until ICE is abolished. #FuckIce #AbolishIce
25.01.2026 02:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Seattle's own!❤️
22.01.2026 02:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's a new year, which means there are new books to read — hundreds of them. KUOW’s Katie Campbell and Spencer Ruchti from Third Place Books are here to make building your TBRs a little easier this year.
21.01.2026 21:18 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0Cool card! Definitely hunting Tong and McLean in 2026 Series 1. Don't think Sproat's in there...
22.01.2026 02:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The ones I can remember: 14 unique courses across 5 different institutions. But I also teach a 10-credit interdisciplinary courses with another prof once or 2 times a year, which also feel like new courses.
21.01.2026 00:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Dude has such a punchable face. 🤡
21.01.2026 00:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Still taking orders for this fundraiser through today.
19.01.2026 17:15 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
Today, Sun. Jan 11, Cal Anderson park: see you there! #iceout #resist #seattle
11.01.2026 16:01 — 👍 38 🔁 25 💬 3 📌 0Done. Fuck this douche bag.
10.01.2026 20:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Know your rights
10.01.2026 15:58 — 👍 733 🔁 436 💬 11 📌 9Used to love these on a hot summer day.
01.01.2026 02:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you! 🧡
30.12.2025 06:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you for compiling this! Here's another to add to your list: www.waterstones.com/book/traveli...
29.12.2025 07:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
RJL's 2025 wrap up is now available!
Top 10 favorites from 2025 *and* notable JLit publishing trends.
(To the best of my knowledge, there was more translated Japanese fiction published in English than any previous year EVER.)
Announcement for a virtual course with Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav at the Yiddish Book Center in March 2026.
If you know folks who might want to take a four-part virtual mini-course with Harriet Murav and me on the stories we translated in "In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union" let them know to keep an eye on this! www.yiddishbookcenter.org/educational-...
20.12.2025 22:39 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0So glad Doc is still with us and got his number retired last year! 💙🧡💙🧡
18.12.2025 23:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Could they be playing the Expos? Cool pics from my Mets era!
18.12.2025 23:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Translator folks--anyone been to Looren House for a residency? Thoughts and experiences you're willing to share? Thanks~. ❤️🧡❤️🧡 #Translation #amtranslating
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Losing Pete really hurts, more than Nimmo (who was overpaid), more than even Edwin. The only thing redeeming move would be if the front office miraculously got Junior Caminero (or someone of that calibur)
11.12.2025 02:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0WTF is a FIFA peace prize! 🤮
05.12.2025 19:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🔥 TOMORROW!
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Putting this here again as a reminder … six weeks away from the submission deadline! Please circulate!!
30.11.2025 21:29 — 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1Please add me!
29.11.2025 23:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
‼️ Applications for the 2026 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program close TOMORROW! Emerging translators, don't miss your chance to work 1-on-1 with an experienced translator on a translation of your choosing, at no cost to you.
Apply by 11:59pm PT tomorrow! alta.submittable.com/submit/
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to (in recent years):
Paolo Nutini
Jamie Cullum
Tedeschi Trucks Band
Billy Joel
Samm Henshaw
Publishers Marketplace Deal Report Category: Fiction: General/Other November 20, 2025 WHEN WE SWALLOWED THE SEA By Janet Hong Imprint: Flatiron Books Korean-to-English translator Janet Hong's WHEN WE SWALLOWED THE SEA, a kaleidoscopic contemporary Korean family saga pitched in the vein of Min Jin Lee and Rachel Khong, about a young woman from a long line of haenyeo, forced to leave home after a tragedy shatters her family, and her decades-long search for belonging, narrated across multiple voices and three generations, to Caroline Bleeke at Flatiron Books, in a pre-empt, by Annie Hwang at Ayesha Pande Literary (NA).
Forthcoming novel by translator Janet Hong!
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