My delicious (enormous!) vanilla panna cotta with forest fruit compote and honeycomb The Saracens Head overlooking the Wye at Symonds Yat East. Gorgeous combination of flavours and textures.

Jessica Cohen is giving her lecture ‘The Reluctant Editor: Translating Unstable Originals’ at #BCLT2023 If you couldn’t make it today, recordings of our plenary sessions will be made available on our YouTube channel! 🎥 #xl8

“The world is full of paper. // Write to me.” — Agha Shahid Ali . . . This poem appeared in The Half-Inch Himalayas by Agha Shahid Ali, published by Wesleyan University Press, 1987. Shared here with profound gratitude.

If you missed the wonderful Julio Serrano Echeverría and @lawrenceschimel reading poems in Spanish and English, talking translation for children and so much more, you can catch the recording here 👇👇 We highly recommend! The Emma Press Outside In World youtu.be/rAnuw8qOKTo

Interested in #art and looking to add to your specialisms as a #translator / #interpreter? This 1.5-hour session focuses on museum audio description – the visual description of artworks, cultural artefacts and archaeological findings. Highly qualified in her field, Chiara

We’re hiring! As WWB’s books editor, you’ll be right in the middle of the global literary conversation, commissioning and editing reviews of new books in translation. Find out more at: buff.ly/44Z99xL

This is going on my reading list!

Oh, and by the by... due to the miracle of air travel and time zones, I will have a 34-hour long August 1st this year. Happy 10th #WITMonth, everyone!!!!!!

If you’re writing for children or young adults and you’re ready to share your work with agents, keep me in mind. I’m very much on the lookout for a new talent to work with. Submissions guidelines are on the AMH website.

I'm delighted to take over the reins Petra-E Network Twitter. I'm Josephine Murray, Literary Translator, Journalist & now Secretary of PETRA-E Network. Looking forward to sharing literary translation ideas & events with you all.

Sad news about the death of Robbie Shepherd at 87. He may have described himself as "just a loon fae Dunecht", but he was "Mr Doric" to so many. Robbie loved the north-east, the music and the people of the region and he was a genuinely nice man! pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberde…

New Fiction in Translation section in Richard Booth's Bookshop, Hay on Wye.

“I’ll be the first Romani woman to write sci-fi."” Journey through Romani heritage, from folklores to challenging taboos, and explore the quest for identity and revival in literature with Maria Siváková: tinyurl.com/bde5pm9m

As a reader, or a translator or writer, how do you feel about words left untranslated?linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Thanks to Josephine Murray for mentioning the Foodie Translators Facebook group in her lovely article on food translation in the ITI Bulletin. Anyone else now also craving toad in the hole?! #xl8

Where is the largest collection of translated children’s books in the UK? #WorldKidLitMonth

Today we relaunch our #RivetingReviews eurolitnet - to celebrate #InternationalTranslationDay & to ensure that translated literature in English receives the attention it deserves. Our editor this Quarter is the great West Camel & published by @Anna__Hyde eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingreview…

Happy #BookshopDay! What better excuse to get yourself down to #Stroud Bookshop to treat yourself…& pick up a copy of the #StroudBookFestival programme while you’re there! #InStroud 📚 📖🤓

#CFP: The Child and the Book Conference: Making, Building, Mending: Creativity and Craftsmanship in Children’s Literature and Culture Deadline for submissions: 31 October 2023 2-4 May 2024, University of Rouen Normandy Email: [email protected] Website: cbc2024.sciencesconf.org

The fully-open access children's literature and culture journal Strenae has just launched this CFP: Children’s Literature in Times of War Deadline for abstract submission : 15 January 2024 Editors: Svetlana Maslinskaia and Kirill Maslinsky Details here 👇journals.openedition.org/strenae/10329