Earlier this week, Eva Baltasar and translator Julia Sanches joined Polly Barton to launch Mammoth with brookline booksmith! Now available to watch on YouTube! 🦣 youtube.com/watch?v=cfXzaW…

I have to stop comparing myself to people who’s parents paid their rent well into their twenties

Congratulations to Matthew Brown for his book Sport in South America: A History on winning the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 2024, awarded by the British Society of Sport History BSSH Souvik Naha Dr. Erica Munkwitz Yale University Press London📚 University of Bristol sportinhistory.org

4. Are you writing your first full-length commissioned work of non-fiction? The Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Award is open for submissions! Deadline: 30th August. rsliterature.org/rsl-giles-st-a…

Where do people get this idea that translation is a hobby you pick up in retirement? For some of us this IS our livelihood and profession, and one we’ve spent years and years working toward. Not an empty nesters’ alternative to birding for a little pocket money.

If you’re not a translator & know one language, what question/s do you have about the translation of novels/poetry? This is for research for something & FYI I won’t be replying in the thread unfortunately! Any responses much appreciated.

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We’re on this!!! Submit today!

Hi! Here is a list of 30+ literary contests that are either currently open for submissions or opening in September! Almost all are open internationally. All are fee-free. Prizes range from $100 to $1000 and even a creative Writing MA Scholarship. Good luck! #contestsubmissions

I love when someone is like “I’m funny because I have trauma and it’s a coping mechanisms” and it’s like ok not to add to your trauma, but you’re not funny

My daughter asked who was giving us driving directions on my phone and I said "Who do you think?" and she said "A person with no skin who lives in a pink room in a pile of dirt and tells people where to go while watching shows about mice on a rock painted to look like a TV."

you legally can't bully me for the next 30 days

Tesco is playing Carly Simon & every single person is lip-syncing to ‘You’re so vain’ — it’s like a film

Artist spotlight 🧵 Bad Betty Live is back on Sunday! We are back at Peggy's Skylight Jazz Club with this outrageously good lineup. 2:30pm masterclass at Waterstones Notts with 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus (low tickets) 6pm doors open for food. 7pm performances begin. peggysskylight.co.uk/events/bad-bet…

Join W4G for our first poetry reading featuring a small fraction of the many U.S.-based poets in solidarity with the people of GZ: Fady Joudah Solmaz Sharif, Wendy Trevino wendy trevino Juliana Spahr and Joshua Clover 🔥🔥 workshops4gaza.com/calendar/a-poe…

Calling all #poets! Our poetry submissions are now open for new collections of 55pp or more & pamphlets up to 25pp (max). Submit your work for consideration by 5pm Monday 30th September. Visit our submissions page for details serenbooks.com/submissions/. Zoë Brigley Rhian Edwards

Join one of Latin America's most daring literary talents, Alia Trabucco Zerán, at Foyles next month for a discussion about CLEAN 4th Estate Books, her trenchant novel of class and violence. She'll be in conversation with THE LODGERS author, Holly Pester🎫bit.ly/4crFWih

To celebrate the publication of my new book GOBLINHOOD: GOBLIN AS A MODE, out next week from Rough Trade Books, I’ll be going on tour! thebookseller.com/news/goblinhoo…