Annie Rutherford
@annierutherford.bsky.social
Makes things with words. Translator, writer and cultural project leader. Particularly interested in collaborative working and creating communities. 2025 BCLT translator-in-residence. (she/they)
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"If you use AI there’s a loss of process—art process, theatre making, translation....Process is where you build knowledge. Just going from A to B without process, you gain no knowledge, no human experience. You gain zero opportunity because you are not having to engage with anybody else..."
#xl8 💙📚
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“[I]n a sense, a translator is always like a fan. You’re always in this position of admiration, but you are also emulating the author.”
Sarah Gear interviews translator Jen Calleja on the art, politics, and livelihood of literary translation. At Asymptote: buff.ly/3WmFKtX
Sarah Gear interviews translator Jen Calleja on the art, politics, and livelihood of literary translation. At Asymptote: buff.ly/3WmFKtX
An Interview with Jen Calleja - Asymptote
I met with Jen Calleja—author, musician and translator from German extraordinaire—at the Edinburgh International Book Festival where she was taking part in two events. In the first, she appeared…
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January 23, 2026 at 10:40 AM
"If you use AI there’s a loss of process—art process, theatre making, translation....Process is where you build knowledge. Just going from A to B without process, you gain no knowledge, no human experience. You gain zero opportunity because you are not having to engage with anybody else..."
#xl8 💙📚
#xl8 💙📚
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In Praise of PLR (Public Lending Rights), all those who fought for them, lending services, all those who use them! Viva Libraries!
PLR statement day. Incredibly helpful payment (£140 for me this time) but most of all I love to see which of my books have been borrowed. Keep reading!
PLR statement day. Incredibly helpful payment (£140 for me this time) but most of all I love to see which of my books have been borrowed. Keep reading!
January 19, 2026 at 2:19 PM
In Praise of PLR (Public Lending Rights), all those who fought for them, lending services, all those who use them! Viva Libraries!
PLR statement day. Incredibly helpful payment (£140 for me this time) but most of all I love to see which of my books have been borrowed. Keep reading!
PLR statement day. Incredibly helpful payment (£140 for me this time) but most of all I love to see which of my books have been borrowed. Keep reading!
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Ahhhh I almost forgot to do one last shout out about my NEXT event.
Join me online tomorrow evening - Tuesday 20th January - for an @arvonfoundation.bsky.social at home Online Masterclass -
On 'winter writing as (self) preservation Saving up Light for The Long Night'.
#WritingSky #BookSky
Join me online tomorrow evening - Tuesday 20th January - for an @arvonfoundation.bsky.social at home Online Masterclass -
On 'winter writing as (self) preservation Saving up Light for The Long Night'.
#WritingSky #BookSky
Masterclass: Winter writing as (self) preservation | Saving up Light for The Long Night | Arvon
What does winter mean to you? Is it something to celebrate or something to survive? Would you rather hibernate through it or do you relish the cold? In 'Summer Haibun' Aimee Nezhukumatathil writes of...
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January 19, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Ahhhh I almost forgot to do one last shout out about my NEXT event.
Join me online tomorrow evening - Tuesday 20th January - for an @arvonfoundation.bsky.social at home Online Masterclass -
On 'winter writing as (self) preservation Saving up Light for The Long Night'.
#WritingSky #BookSky
Join me online tomorrow evening - Tuesday 20th January - for an @arvonfoundation.bsky.social at home Online Masterclass -
On 'winter writing as (self) preservation Saving up Light for The Long Night'.
#WritingSky #BookSky
Question for publishing people! Is Unbound Edition Press connected in anyway to the now defunct Unbound publishers, or is the name just a coincidence?...
December 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Question for publishing people! Is Unbound Edition Press connected in anyway to the now defunct Unbound publishers, or is the name just a coincidence?...
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'Write a memory, soak and tear
into as many pieces as your years...
I cannot promise you it will work'.
Love this poem, 'Home-Charm' by Harry Josephine Giles on @annierutherford.bsky.social 's Advent Calendar today in aid of #msf Still time to sign up!
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into as many pieces as your years...
I cannot promise you it will work'.
Love this poem, 'Home-Charm' by Harry Josephine Giles on @annierutherford.bsky.social 's Advent Calendar today in aid of #msf Still time to sign up!
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Poetry Advent Calendar: 9 December
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December 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
'Write a memory, soak and tear
into as many pieces as your years...
I cannot promise you it will work'.
Love this poem, 'Home-Charm' by Harry Josephine Giles on @annierutherford.bsky.social 's Advent Calendar today in aid of #msf Still time to sign up!
mailchi.mp/posteo/poetr...
into as many pieces as your years...
I cannot promise you it will work'.
Love this poem, 'Home-Charm' by Harry Josephine Giles on @annierutherford.bsky.social 's Advent Calendar today in aid of #msf Still time to sign up!
mailchi.mp/posteo/poetr...
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“There is still hope in the handwriting that refuses to be mass-produced for the world.” Leena Norms
Let me recommend the Advent Poetry Calendar by @annierutherford.bsky.social raising funds for #MSF
This year’s selection fits the world we live in like a glove
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Let me recommend the Advent Poetry Calendar by @annierutherford.bsky.social raising funds for #MSF
This year’s selection fits the world we live in like a glove
mailchi.mp/posteo/poetr...
Poetry Advent Calendar: 6 December
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December 6, 2025 at 12:08 PM
“There is still hope in the handwriting that refuses to be mass-produced for the world.” Leena Norms
Let me recommend the Advent Poetry Calendar by @annierutherford.bsky.social raising funds for #MSF
This year’s selection fits the world we live in like a glove
mailchi.mp/posteo/poetr...
Let me recommend the Advent Poetry Calendar by @annierutherford.bsky.social raising funds for #MSF
This year’s selection fits the world we live in like a glove
mailchi.mp/posteo/poetr...
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My email account finally learnt not to send these to junk today 🤦♀️ no taste! Every day so far has been a jewel, so glad I signed up
It's a tad down to the wire, I know, but I'm thrilled to say that I'm running the Poetry Advent Calendar again this year -- sign up by donating to @msf.ca and receive a poem every day from 1 to 24 December: book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...
December 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
My email account finally learnt not to send these to junk today 🤦♀️ no taste! Every day so far has been a jewel, so glad I signed up
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V proud to have had poems included in Annie’s brilliant poetry advent calendar each year. It can be a difficult time but what better company through it than a poem sent to you every day? And knowing that is helping others in terrible need? That’s the spirit of the season. Not too late to sign up!
It's a tad down to the wire, I know, but I'm thrilled to say that I'm running the Poetry Advent Calendar again this year -- sign up by donating to @msf.ca and receive a poem every day from 1 to 24 December: book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...
December 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
V proud to have had poems included in Annie’s brilliant poetry advent calendar each year. It can be a difficult time but what better company through it than a poem sent to you every day? And knowing that is helping others in terrible need? That’s the spirit of the season. Not too late to sign up!
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My other beautiful advent calendar, @annierutherford.bsky.social’s poetry calendar benefitting @msf.ca, today features Polly Atkin locating hope & endurance in the form of a grey wagtail’s winter lessons. I needed that. @pollyrowena.bsky.social
Poetry Advent Calendar: 2 December
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December 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
My other beautiful advent calendar, @annierutherford.bsky.social’s poetry calendar benefitting @msf.ca, today features Polly Atkin locating hope & endurance in the form of a grey wagtail’s winter lessons. I needed that. @pollyrowena.bsky.social
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What a lovely treat to find this, Paul! Thank you so much for doing it. Along with @annierutherford.bsky.social 's advent calendar for @msf.ca that's the season sorted 🙏 😊 🙏
Today I’m starting my #AdventPoem series. My recordings of six seasonal poems, four of them mine, bookended by a twentieth & a fifteenth-century masterpiece.
First, inspired by a Lancelot Andrewes sermon, TS Eliot’s glorious Journey of the Magi
#poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #Advent #Christmas
First, inspired by a Lancelot Andrewes sermon, TS Eliot’s glorious Journey of the Magi
#poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #Advent #Christmas
December 1, 2025 at 7:01 AM
What a lovely treat to find this, Paul! Thank you so much for doing it. Along with @annierutherford.bsky.social 's advent calendar for @msf.ca that's the season sorted 🙏 😊 🙏
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The best Advent Calendar is back!
It's a tad down to the wire, I know, but I'm thrilled to say that I'm running the Poetry Advent Calendar again this year -- sign up by donating to @msf.ca and receive a poem every day from 1 to 24 December: book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...
December 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The best Advent Calendar is back!
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This is a lovely thing.
It's a tad down to the wire, I know, but I'm thrilled to say that I'm running the Poetry Advent Calendar again this year -- sign up by donating to @msf.ca and receive a poem every day from 1 to 24 December: book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...
November 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This is a lovely thing.
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This was a lovely part of my December last year and I'm glad to see it return. Perhaps your inbox could use some poetry, too?
It's a tad down to the wire, I know, but I'm thrilled to say that I'm running the Poetry Advent Calendar again this year -- sign up by donating to @msf.ca and receive a poem every day from 1 to 24 December: book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...
November 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This was a lovely part of my December last year and I'm glad to see it return. Perhaps your inbox could use some poetry, too?
When I first came up with this idea back in 2023, I told myself that if the Poetry Advent Calendar could raise £500 for MSF, I'd be more than chuffed - this year, we've surpassed that in the first 90 minutes of the advent calendar going live! Huge thanks to everyone who's donated and shared so far ❤️
It's a tad down to the wire, I know, but I'm thrilled to say that I'm running the Poetry Advent Calendar again this year -- sign up by donating to @msf.ca and receive a poem every day from 1 to 24 December: book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...
November 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
When I first came up with this idea back in 2023, I told myself that if the Poetry Advent Calendar could raise £500 for MSF, I'd be more than chuffed - this year, we've surpassed that in the first 90 minutes of the advent calendar going live! Huge thanks to everyone who's donated and shared so far ❤️
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Time ONCE MORE for the best advent calendar of them all! Donate! Get a poem every day throughout this miserable month!
It's a tad down to the wire, I know, but I'm thrilled to say that I'm running the Poetry Advent Calendar again this year -- sign up by donating to @msf.ca and receive a poem every day from 1 to 24 December: book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...
November 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Time ONCE MORE for the best advent calendar of them all! Donate! Get a poem every day throughout this miserable month!
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Signed! Thank you for putting the effort into organising this again, Annie. It was fabulous last year, and most importantly it's for @msf.ca Poetry friends, Annie brings you the gift of poetry, please sign up👇
It's a tad down to the wire, I know, but I'm thrilled to say that I'm running the Poetry Advent Calendar again this year -- sign up by donating to @msf.ca and receive a poem every day from 1 to 24 December: book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Signed! Thank you for putting the effort into organising this again, Annie. It was fabulous last year, and most importantly it's for @msf.ca Poetry friends, Annie brings you the gift of poetry, please sign up👇
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Perhaps, like me, you already have an extraordinarily indulgent & fancy chocolate advent calendar sent by your extravagantly delightful sibling 😇
But I recommend also signing up for Annie’s poetry advent calendar to benefit MSF & their indispensable relief work. Last year’s was an utter joy.
But I recommend also signing up for Annie’s poetry advent calendar to benefit MSF & their indispensable relief work. Last year’s was an utter joy.
It's a tad down to the wire, I know, but I'm thrilled to say that I'm running the Poetry Advent Calendar again this year -- sign up by donating to @msf.ca and receive a poem every day from 1 to 24 December: book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Perhaps, like me, you already have an extraordinarily indulgent & fancy chocolate advent calendar sent by your extravagantly delightful sibling 😇
But I recommend also signing up for Annie’s poetry advent calendar to benefit MSF & their indispensable relief work. Last year’s was an utter joy.
But I recommend also signing up for Annie’s poetry advent calendar to benefit MSF & their indispensable relief work. Last year’s was an utter joy.
It's a tad down to the wire, I know, but I'm thrilled to say that I'm running the Poetry Advent Calendar again this year -- sign up by donating to @msf.ca and receive a poem every day from 1 to 24 December: book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...
November 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
It's a tad down to the wire, I know, but I'm thrilled to say that I'm running the Poetry Advent Calendar again this year -- sign up by donating to @msf.ca and receive a poem every day from 1 to 24 December: book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...
In advance of this -- if any of my fellow translators have some favourite reviews, which you think deal with translation particularly well, I'd love to see them!
✨ A week to go ✨ Join @annierutherford.bsky.social for 'Reviewing Translations: Making the Translator Visible' ONLINE on Wednesday 22 October 📚 ✨
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM
In advance of this -- if any of my fellow translators have some favourite reviews, which you think deal with translation particularly well, I'd love to see them!
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✨ A week to go ✨ Join @annierutherford.bsky.social for 'Reviewing Translations: Making the Translator Visible' ONLINE on Wednesday 22 October 📚 ✨
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
✨ A week to go ✨ Join @annierutherford.bsky.social for 'Reviewing Translations: Making the Translator Visible' ONLINE on Wednesday 22 October 📚 ✨
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
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Join our Board of Directors!
Deadline for applications: Monday 20 October at 2 pm.
Find out more and to apply on our vacancy page: buff.ly/IMUuTQP
#EdinburghCharity #BoardMembersWanted #JoinOurTeam #NonprofitLeadership #CharityRecruitment #VolunteerOpportunities #InclusiveLeadership
Deadline for applications: Monday 20 October at 2 pm.
Find out more and to apply on our vacancy page: buff.ly/IMUuTQP
#EdinburghCharity #BoardMembersWanted #JoinOurTeam #NonprofitLeadership #CharityRecruitment #VolunteerOpportunities #InclusiveLeadership
October 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Join our Board of Directors!
Deadline for applications: Monday 20 October at 2 pm.
Find out more and to apply on our vacancy page: buff.ly/IMUuTQP
#EdinburghCharity #BoardMembersWanted #JoinOurTeam #NonprofitLeadership #CharityRecruitment #VolunteerOpportunities #InclusiveLeadership
Deadline for applications: Monday 20 October at 2 pm.
Find out more and to apply on our vacancy page: buff.ly/IMUuTQP
#EdinburghCharity #BoardMembersWanted #JoinOurTeam #NonprofitLeadership #CharityRecruitment #VolunteerOpportunities #InclusiveLeadership
Oh no, what a shame.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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October 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Oh no, what a shame.
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We need this in Scotland. It’s not even wishful or fanciful thinking: it’s financially astute. Our creative industries are absolutely vital
The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow
Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent
The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow.
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October 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
We need this in Scotland. It’s not even wishful or fanciful thinking: it’s financially astute. Our creative industries are absolutely vital
I'm really looking forward to this, do come along!
Join @annierutherford.bsky.social for 'Reviewing Translations: Making the Translator Visible' ONLINE on Wednesday 22 October 📚 ✨
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
October 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I'm really looking forward to this, do come along!
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What a fantastic event! @bcltuea.bsky.social @annierutherford.bsky.social @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
Join @annierutherford.bsky.social for 'Reviewing Translations: Making the Translator Visible' ONLINE on Wednesday 22 October 📚 ✨
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
What a fantastic event! @bcltuea.bsky.social @annierutherford.bsky.social @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social