Robin Munby
@robmunb.bsky.social
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Machado Version 1 [Retrato] — Robin Munby (@robmunb.bsky.social)
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Machado Version 1 [Retrato] — Robin Munby
On pilgrimage of celebrants there I clamber and Heavenways,on the uplift carried surgeward vertexing to cumuloskies;my laddering, stepto highto and reaching for Paradise;my fallingly, inchasmic and…
minorliteratures.com
Very fond of this weird little Machado outgrowth (/poem I wrote) - and of the buena gente at @minorliteratures.bsky.social for publishing it!
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The Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators launches TWO WEEKS TODAY! Our national competition will open for entries on Monday 2 February, when students aged 11-18 will have the opportunity to translate poetry, fiction and non-fiction from French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Russian and Spanish 📝
January 19, 2026 at 3:32 PM
The Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators launches TWO WEEKS TODAY! Our national competition will open for entries on Monday 2 February, when students aged 11-18 will have the opportunity to translate poetry, fiction and non-fiction from French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Russian and Spanish 📝
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🧵 Hilo de libros de autores norirlandeses que llegarán (en inglés) este 2026 🧵
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January 20, 2026 at 11:35 AM
🧵 Hilo de libros de autores norirlandeses que llegarán (en inglés) este 2026 🧵
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After a successful 5 years at the University of Bristol, our online literary translation summer school is moving to St Edmund Hall, University of #Oxford. Once again, we have a line-up of stellar tutors and inspiring speakers!
January 15, 2026 at 10:09 AM
After a successful 5 years at the University of Bristol, our online literary translation summer school is moving to St Edmund Hall, University of #Oxford. Once again, we have a line-up of stellar tutors and inspiring speakers!
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Teaching my course Experimental Fiction again this Spring for @hastingswrites.bsky.social 🌞 www.hastingswritersworkshop.com/courses/p/ex...
January 19, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Teaching my course Experimental Fiction again this Spring for @hastingswrites.bsky.social 🌞 www.hastingswritersworkshop.com/courses/p/ex...
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Very excited to announce our Fall 2026 books via our newsletter today. And now here!
BLUE SUNSET by Denise Rose Hansen and WHAT REMAINS by Brais Lamela (trans by Jacob Rogers) will be out Oct 6, 2026!
Read more about these two wonderful new novels at our website: dorothyproject.com/books-gallery/
BLUE SUNSET by Denise Rose Hansen and WHAT REMAINS by Brais Lamela (trans by Jacob Rogers) will be out Oct 6, 2026!
Read more about these two wonderful new novels at our website: dorothyproject.com/books-gallery/
January 17, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Very excited to announce our Fall 2026 books via our newsletter today. And now here!
BLUE SUNSET by Denise Rose Hansen and WHAT REMAINS by Brais Lamela (trans by Jacob Rogers) will be out Oct 6, 2026!
Read more about these two wonderful new novels at our website: dorothyproject.com/books-gallery/
BLUE SUNSET by Denise Rose Hansen and WHAT REMAINS by Brais Lamela (trans by Jacob Rogers) will be out Oct 6, 2026!
Read more about these two wonderful new novels at our website: dorothyproject.com/books-gallery/
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We are excited to open applications for a UK-based Translator in Residence working with/in Endangered Languages.
Find full details, including fee and residency requirements, below.
Application deadline: 15 February, 2026
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Find full details, including fee and residency requirements, below.
Application deadline: 15 February, 2026
buff.ly/yibsATf
January 15, 2026 at 1:01 PM
We are excited to open applications for a UK-based Translator in Residence working with/in Endangered Languages.
Find full details, including fee and residency requirements, below.
Application deadline: 15 February, 2026
buff.ly/yibsATf
Find full details, including fee and residency requirements, below.
Application deadline: 15 February, 2026
buff.ly/yibsATf
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Yá ta disponible n'abierto el llibru "La llingua n'Asturies al traviés de los sieglos" na web d'Ediciones Trea
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La llingua n’Asturies al traviés de los sieglos - Biblioteca Abierta Trea
Entamau por la Conseyería de Cultura, Política Llinguística y Turismo y el Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte, esti volume ofrez una síntesis de la historia social del llinguaxe n...
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December 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Yá ta disponible n'abierto el llibru "La llingua n'Asturies al traviés de los sieglos" na web d'Ediciones Trea
bibliotecaabiertatrea.es/producto/la-...
bibliotecaabiertatrea.es/producto/la-...
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Monthly Dispatch #30 — December 2025
A letter from the editor[s]
minorlits.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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We want YOUR manuscripts!! 📢
If you're a writer or translator, we want to hear from you! We're currently reviewing book-length prose and poetry submissions. We're interested in pretty much everything. The weirder it is, the more likely we are to publish it!
If you're a writer or translator, we want to hear from you! We're currently reviewing book-length prose and poetry submissions. We're interested in pretty much everything. The weirder it is, the more likely we are to publish it!
December 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
We want YOUR manuscripts!! 📢
If you're a writer or translator, we want to hear from you! We're currently reviewing book-length prose and poetry submissions. We're interested in pretty much everything. The weirder it is, the more likely we are to publish it!
If you're a writer or translator, we want to hear from you! We're currently reviewing book-length prose and poetry submissions. We're interested in pretty much everything. The weirder it is, the more likely we are to publish it!
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📘 Presentamos “Un casino en plena selva” en Oviedo
Acompáñanos este jueves 11 a las 20:00h en El Manglar para conversar con @icaroviedo.bsky.social sobre cómo pensar Asturies desde el bien común.
Intervendrá también Nacho Fernández del Páramo (Ecoloxistes n’Aición).
🌱 Entrada libre. ¡Os esperamos!
Acompáñanos este jueves 11 a las 20:00h en El Manglar para conversar con @icaroviedo.bsky.social sobre cómo pensar Asturies desde el bien común.
Intervendrá también Nacho Fernández del Páramo (Ecoloxistes n’Aición).
🌱 Entrada libre. ¡Os esperamos!
December 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
📘 Presentamos “Un casino en plena selva” en Oviedo
Acompáñanos este jueves 11 a las 20:00h en El Manglar para conversar con @icaroviedo.bsky.social sobre cómo pensar Asturies desde el bien común.
Intervendrá también Nacho Fernández del Páramo (Ecoloxistes n’Aición).
🌱 Entrada libre. ¡Os esperamos!
Acompáñanos este jueves 11 a las 20:00h en El Manglar para conversar con @icaroviedo.bsky.social sobre cómo pensar Asturies desde el bien común.
Intervendrá también Nacho Fernández del Páramo (Ecoloxistes n’Aición).
🌱 Entrada libre. ¡Os esperamos!
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calling all literary translators - does anyone want to talk to me (on the record) about their gendered experience of **working as a translator** including e.g. the pay gap and the motherhood penalty?
December 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
calling all literary translators - does anyone want to talk to me (on the record) about their gendered experience of **working as a translator** including e.g. the pay gap and the motherhood penalty?
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last week @ minor lits ...
— @rjdent.bsky.social interviewed by @matthewkinlin.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/12/02/a...
— experimental poetry from @robmunb.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/12/04/m...
— @rjdent.bsky.social interviewed by @matthewkinlin.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/12/02/a...
— experimental poetry from @robmunb.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/12/04/m...
Machado Version 1 [Retrato] — Robin Munby
On pilgrimage of celebrants there I clamber and Heavenways,on the uplift carried surgeward vertexing to cumuloskies;my laddering, stepto highto and reaching for Paradise;my fallingly, inchasmic and…
minorliteratures.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
last week @ minor lits ...
— @rjdent.bsky.social interviewed by @matthewkinlin.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/12/02/a...
— experimental poetry from @robmunb.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/12/04/m...
— @rjdent.bsky.social interviewed by @matthewkinlin.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/12/02/a...
— experimental poetry from @robmunb.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/12/04/m...
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🤝 Porque nun hai cuestión más constitucional que defender la #oficialidá
🏛️ Casi 50 años depués de l'aprobación de la Carta Magna ye’l momentu de da-y cumplimientu a la previsión constitucional del artículu 3.2 n’Asturies
🌐 Más información ⤵️
iniciativapolasturianu.org/iniciativa-p...
🏛️ Casi 50 años depués de l'aprobación de la Carta Magna ye’l momentu de da-y cumplimientu a la previsión constitucional del artículu 3.2 n’Asturies
🌐 Más información ⤵️
iniciativapolasturianu.org/iniciativa-p...
December 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
🤝 Porque nun hai cuestión más constitucional que defender la #oficialidá
🏛️ Casi 50 años depués de l'aprobación de la Carta Magna ye’l momentu de da-y cumplimientu a la previsión constitucional del artículu 3.2 n’Asturies
🌐 Más información ⤵️
iniciativapolasturianu.org/iniciativa-p...
🏛️ Casi 50 años depués de l'aprobación de la Carta Magna ye’l momentu de da-y cumplimientu a la previsión constitucional del artículu 3.2 n’Asturies
🌐 Más información ⤵️
iniciativapolasturianu.org/iniciativa-p...
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Mui contentu esta mañana pola Mención especial que tán acabante anunciar que tuvo’l mio rellatu «Les figurines» nel XXII Concursu de Microrrellatos Mineros Manuel Nevado Madrid, que convoca la Fundación Juan Muñiz Zapico.
December 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Mui contentu esta mañana pola Mención especial que tán acabante anunciar que tuvo’l mio rellatu «Les figurines» nel XXII Concursu de Microrrellatos Mineros Manuel Nevado Madrid, que convoca la Fundación Juan Muñiz Zapico.
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“I, to the soft engreening of the universe, accede.”
Machado Version 1 [Retrato] — @robmunb.bsky.social
Machado Version 1 [Retrato] — @robmunb.bsky.social
Machado Version 1 [Retrato] — Robin Munby
On pilgrimage of celebrants there I clamber and Heavenways,on the uplift carried surgeward vertexing to cumuloskies;my laddering, stepto highto and reaching for Paradise;my fallingly, inchasmic and…
minorliteratures.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“I, to the soft engreening of the universe, accede.”
Machado Version 1 [Retrato] — @robmunb.bsky.social
Machado Version 1 [Retrato] — @robmunb.bsky.social
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Gracias to @missadadoom.bsky.social for including my translation of THE BOOK OF DENIAL by Ricardo Chavez Castañeda & Alejandro @magallanes71.bsky.social ( @enchantedlion.bsky.social ) in her folk #horror in #translation roundup for CRIME READS:
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🥰🥰🙏🏽🙏🏽
#booksky #xl8
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🥰🥰🙏🏽🙏🏽
#booksky #xl8
6 Great Folk Horror Novels in Translation, Recommended by a Translator of Folk Horror
Togetherness that’s on the side of suffocating, history that won’t stay put or past, and nature that doesn’t just exist, benignly, but watches and waits….Folk horror deals in dissonance, drea…
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December 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Gracias to @missadadoom.bsky.social for including my translation of THE BOOK OF DENIAL by Ricardo Chavez Castañeda & Alejandro @magallanes71.bsky.social ( @enchantedlion.bsky.social ) in her folk #horror in #translation roundup for CRIME READS:
crimereads.com/folk-horror-...
🥰🥰🙏🏽🙏🏽
#booksky #xl8
crimereads.com/folk-horror-...
🥰🥰🙏🏽🙏🏽
#booksky #xl8
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“On to rotting, rotting and living; decompose slipflesh slow unemerge.
By new mechanics living, seep to mushroomlike suppur
and seeping through and seeping out and spreading to succulence…”
Machado Version 1 [Retrato] — @robmunb.bsky.social
By new mechanics living, seep to mushroomlike suppur
and seeping through and seeping out and spreading to succulence…”
Machado Version 1 [Retrato] — @robmunb.bsky.social
Machado Version 1 [Retrato] — Robin Munby
On pilgrimage of celebrants there I clamber and Heavenways,on the uplift carried surgeward vertexing to cumuloskies;my laddering, stepto highto and reaching for Paradise;my fallingly, inchasmic and…
minorliteratures.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
“On to rotting, rotting and living; decompose slipflesh slow unemerge.
By new mechanics living, seep to mushroomlike suppur
and seeping through and seeping out and spreading to succulence…”
Machado Version 1 [Retrato] — @robmunb.bsky.social
By new mechanics living, seep to mushroomlike suppur
and seeping through and seeping out and spreading to succulence…”
Machado Version 1 [Retrato] — @robmunb.bsky.social
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"On pilgrimage of celebrants there I clamber and Heavenways ..."
Machado Version 1 [Retrato] — @robmunb.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/12/04/m...
Machado Version 1 [Retrato] — @robmunb.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/12/04/m...
Machado Version 1 [Retrato] — Robin Munby
On pilgrimage of celebrants there I clamber and Heavenways,on the uplift carried surgeward vertexing to cumuloskies;my laddering, stepto highto and reaching for Paradise;my fallingly, inchasmic and…
minorliteratures.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"On pilgrimage of celebrants there I clamber and Heavenways ..."
Machado Version 1 [Retrato] — @robmunb.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/12/04/m...
Machado Version 1 [Retrato] — @robmunb.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/12/04/m...
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The University of Galway and Literature Ireland are delighted to announce the 2026 Translator Fellowship.
🗓️ Deadline: 6:00 p.m. (Irish time) on Tuesday, 6th January 2026.
🖋 For more information on eligibility and how to apply, please visit our website: www.literatureireland.com/latest/liter...
🗓️ Deadline: 6:00 p.m. (Irish time) on Tuesday, 6th January 2026.
🖋 For more information on eligibility and how to apply, please visit our website: www.literatureireland.com/latest/liter...
December 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The University of Galway and Literature Ireland are delighted to announce the 2026 Translator Fellowship.
🗓️ Deadline: 6:00 p.m. (Irish time) on Tuesday, 6th January 2026.
🖋 For more information on eligibility and how to apply, please visit our website: www.literatureireland.com/latest/liter...
🗓️ Deadline: 6:00 p.m. (Irish time) on Tuesday, 6th January 2026.
🖋 For more information on eligibility and how to apply, please visit our website: www.literatureireland.com/latest/liter...
Very fond of this weird little Machado outgrowth (/poem I wrote) - and of the buena gente at @minorliteratures.bsky.social for publishing it!
Machado Version 1 [Retrato] — Robin Munby (@robmunb.bsky.social)
minorliteratures.com/2025/12/04/m...
minorliteratures.com/2025/12/04/m...
Machado Version 1 [Retrato] — Robin Munby
On pilgrimage of celebrants there I clamber and Heavenways,on the uplift carried surgeward vertexing to cumuloskies;my laddering, stepto highto and reaching for Paradise;my fallingly, inchasmic and…
minorliteratures.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Very fond of this weird little Machado outgrowth (/poem I wrote) - and of the buena gente at @minorliteratures.bsky.social for publishing it!
Reposted by Robin Munby
Some of my editorial work comes via Reedsy. Over the past year it's become completely overrun by people (I can't call them authors) who are asking for editorial help on manuscripts that have been generated by #AI. Often, what they want is for someone to make the text sound more human.
December 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Some of my editorial work comes via Reedsy. Over the past year it's become completely overrun by people (I can't call them authors) who are asking for editorial help on manuscripts that have been generated by #AI. Often, what they want is for someone to make the text sound more human.
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Philosopheres, wryteres, artistes, filmemakeres, actors, and educatores seem to agree that Gen AI ys a terrible ydea -- but what if... what if the business executives who stande to make moneye from it are correct that it ys great?
December 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Philosopheres, wryteres, artistes, filmemakeres, actors, and educatores seem to agree that Gen AI ys a terrible ydea -- but what if... what if the business executives who stande to make moneye from it are correct that it ys great?
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Celebrate our forthcoming issue Wasafiri 124: Presencia & Resistencia, guest co-edited by Karina Lickorish Quinn and Leo Boix. This special event @britishlibrary.bsky.social brings together leading British Latinx writers including Juana Adcock and @yararf.bsky.social.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Celebrate our forthcoming issue Wasafiri 124: Presencia & Resistencia, guest co-edited by Karina Lickorish Quinn and Leo Boix. This special event @britishlibrary.bsky.social brings together leading British Latinx writers including Juana Adcock and @yararf.bsky.social.
buff.ly/uXSLTVQ
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Before the Rocket was Book of the Week and now a Book of the Month at Voce Books! Proud publisher ❤️
December 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Before the Rocket was Book of the Week and now a Book of the Month at Voce Books! Proud publisher ❤️