And the poetry longlist is equally exciting! Congrats all around! #translation #PENLitAwards

This looks amazing!

We’re thrilled to announce our intention to launch a new annual prize, the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction!    We're seeking sponsorship for the Non-Fiction Prize, to amplify female voices & books that inform, entertain and disrupt Share to spread the word: bit.ly/_WPNF

Congrats to Emily Balistrieri @tiger, Victor Meadowcroft @Furiousleeper & Anne McLean, Tiffany Tsao @TiffTsao, Caroline Waight & Anna Kushner & authors & publishers! @DortheNors Pushkin Press @EvelioRosero New Directions marcial Farrar,Straus&Giroux PEN America #PENLitAwards #xl8

I believe, after 2.5 years, this is my olive tree, producing olives! Amazing…

We have updated both our Model Trade Book Contract and Literary Translation Model Contract to include a new clause that prohibits publishers from using or sublicensing books under contract to train AI technologies. authorsguild.org/news/model-cla…

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The 2023 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation goes to Daniel Borzutzky for his work on THE LOOSE PEARL by Paula Ilabaca Núñez (co•im•press). Congratulations! #PENLitAwards.

The 2023 PEN Translation Prize goes to Tiffany Tsao (@TiffTsao) for her work on PEOPLE FROM BLOOMINGTON by Budi Darma (Penguin Classics). Congratulations! #PENLitAwards

Thrilled & awed this little portfolio is out in the world. Such a pleasure to intro readers to the art of #translation thru the brilliant work of @PSaranj, Larissa Kyzer, & Elton Uliana 🏳️‍🌈 📖 🎭 🐾 : westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu/guest-editor-a…

A little Saturday morning read. Our own Amanda Sarasien has edited a translation portfolio for West Branch Wired, featuring a curation from Portuguese, Persian & Icelandic. Read the pieces & Amanda's beautiful editor’s note at: tinyurl.com/2s3zz3zu

Honoured to be working with Carla Bessa again, and it was a pleasure to work with Amanda Sarasien on this except from Bessa’s novella “My Murilo” for West Branch, which also includes work by Parisa Saranj & Larissa Kyser. westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu/guest-editor-a… #xl8 #translation #fiction

There's incredible work in our first-ever guest-edited translation feature on West Branch Wired! Big thanks to extraordinary guest editor Amanda Sarasien and translators Elton Uliana 🏳️‍🌈 📖 🎭 🐾, Larissa Kyzer, and @PSaranj! westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu/guest-editor-a…

“If I ask for accommodations at work or in some aspect of my personal life, I seriously want to waste as much of everyone’s time as I possibly can…” Brilliant piece of satire from The Squeaky Wheel: thesqueakywheel.org/opinion-im-mor… #disability #ableism

The attempted mask-bans continue, this time right here in Chicago. And it looks like they're using the same language from the North Carolina mask ban. 😡 Below is the ordinance introduced in City Council today by Alderman Raymond Lopez:

Free to submit! We pay! 🙌

This haunting story will stay with you. Elton Uliana 🏳️‍🌈 📖 🎭 🐾’s #translation is vivid and affecting.