🚨 This afternoon MPs vote on change to law which could mean #LGBT people from India & Georgia seeking safety here could be sent back to their countries. Their lives will be at risk if this change goes through. ⚠️ Ask your MP to stop it! It's easy to do> bit.ly/41QuMzZ

The finalists for the NBCC Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize are Kareem Abdulrahman and Bachtyar Ali, Natascha Bruce and Dorothy Tse, Don Mee Choi and Kim Hyesoon, Todd Fredso and Azo Vauguy, Maureen Freely and Tezer Özlü, and Tiffany Tsao and Norman Erikson Pasaribu.

Very, very moved by this essay on parenthood in The Common Reader The Common Reader - thanks to Michael Sims for writing and sharing it

This piece from Sirin Kale (& all her reporting on stalking) is so important. I was watched obsessively by a neighbour for years who then became verbally abusive & the police were sympathetic but ultimately useless theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The March issue is out! “Writing the Polycrisis” headlines+ Tsotsil filmmaker María Sojob, Mai Al-Nakib, Bora Chung, Patrícia Melo, Erica N. Cardwell, and more. Check out the table of contents and begin reading! worldliteraturetoday.org/2024/march

“Croft has reinvented ecofiction with this seductive, erudite, and terribly funny tale about ‘book people.’” Hannah Weber reviews Jennifer Croft’s debut novel in our March issue’s featured review. worldliteraturetoday.org/2024/march/ext…

The NBCC John Leonard Prize for Best First Book goes to “Waiting to Be Arrested at Night” by Tahir Hamut Izgil (Tahir H. Izgil), translated by Joshua L. Freeman (Joshua L. Freeman)! penguinpress #NBCCAwards

The NBCC Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize goes to Maureen Freely’s translation of Tezer Özlü’s “Cold Nights of Childhood”! Transit Books #NBCCAwards

Today, we’re remembering Dubravka Ugrešić, who died on 3/17/2023. She was one of our first authors, and we’re thrilled that Open Letter Books will publish two more of her books this year.

📢Call for proposals! We are inviting submissions on stereotypes in the credibility assessment of asylum claims from LGBTQI+ people.

‘The more they keep coming back, the bigger the resistance seems to be getting.’ I spoke to some of the dozens of protesters who successfully blocked a coach from taking asylum seekers to the Bibby Stockholm today. novaramedia.com/2024/05/02/pro…

Raised in a household where nobody had a job, I believed a steady income would keep my novels “free” from financial constraints. Then I wrote a book about my life, money came in. Was this extraction “cheap”? On literary work and class tlth.co.uk/cheaplit (I love this mag)

We are seeking submissions for a British Latinx special issue of Wasafiri, to be guest co-edited by Leonardo Boix (Leo Boix) and Karina Lickorish Quinn (Dr Karina Lickorish Quinn), and published in winter 2025.

In Jenny Croft’s THE EXTINCTION OF IRENA RAY, 8 translators search for an author gone missing in a primeval Polish forest. Join Jennifer, @hannahsweber & moderator @dianestern10 online for FOUND IN TRANSLATION, Thu, Sep 5, 7pm EDT. Virtual. Sign up at salemlitfest.org.

and remember we are open for fiction, essay and experimental submissions throughout August ... guidelines and more info here: oleada.io/publication/mi…

TONIGHT! FREE! VIRTUAL! Join writer/translators Jenny Croft (THE EXTINCTION OF IRENA REY) & @hannahswebster for FOUND IN TRANSLATION, mod. by award-winning news anchor @dianestern10, TONIGHT Sep 5, 7pm EDT. Register for link at salemlitfest.org.

Great podcast from Spiracle with the peerless Sophie Lewis, who has translated Peirene books from both French AND Portuguese. Sophie reflects on the changing role of translators in the industry 👇 spiracleaudiobooks.com/interviews/sop…