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Annie Rutherford
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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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annierutherford.bsky.social
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!
bcltuea.bsky.social British Centre for Literary Translation @bcltuea.bsky.social · Oct 14
✨ 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
October 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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bcltuea.bsky.social
✨ 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
October 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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intowork.bsky.social
Join our Board of Directors!

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#EdinburghCharity #BoardMembersWanted #JoinOurTeam #NonprofitLeadership #CharityRecruitment #VolunteerOpportunities #InclusiveLeadership
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October 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
annierutherford.bsky.social
Oh no, what a shame.
October 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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editor.scot
We need this in Scotland. It’s not even wishful or fanciful thinking: it’s financially astute. Our creative industries are absolutely vital
October 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
annierutherford.bsky.social
I'm really looking forward to this, do come along!
bcltuea.bsky.social British Centre for Literary Translation @bcltuea.bsky.social · Oct 4
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
October 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social
What a fantastic event! @bcltuea.bsky.social @annierutherford.bsky.social @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
bcltuea.bsky.social British Centre for Literary Translation @bcltuea.bsky.social · Sep 24
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
September 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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leerandall.bsky.social
Sent a digital publisher's catalogue. In it, a special anniversary edition of a beloved book. They *boast* it's a new translation. Nowhere in the copy do they mention who translated. I zoom in on jacket. Nothing. I look down at writer bio, only the original author. VALUE TRANSLATORS, PEOPLE.
September 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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bcltuea.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
September 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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bcltuea.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
September 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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lawrenceschimel.bsky.social
Interesting conversation between @annierutherford.bsky.social and Paul Russell Garrett discussing how their #translation and translation-adjacent income breaks down, by activity, genre, etc.
www.newwriting.net/2025/09/tapa...

#xl8 #freelance #literaryTranslation #poetry #worldkidlit
Tapas Translation Careers
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September 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
annierutherford.bsky.social
My brilliant friend!
birdworks.bsky.social Birdworks @birdworks.bsky.social · Aug 25
🏝️ My second game, Isles & Tiles, is out now on Steam – and on sale for 15% off! If you're into hexagons, deckbuilders, or chill island vibes you should absolutely check it out.

birdworks.io/l/islesandti...

#indiegames #indiedev #boardgamesky
August 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
annierutherford.bsky.social
Loved this performance at the Loud Poets Showcase last month!
iamloudpro.bsky.social I Am Loud CIC @iamloudpro.bsky.social · Jul 7
New Video!
Watch Here: youtu.be/2v96cKcLQTU

From Abby Oliveira, a trippy, hilarious PSA about the dangers of poitín, Northern Ireland's illegal home-brewed elixir...

Learn more about Abby's work via www.abbyoliveira.com

Jack Hinks provided musical accompaniment for this poem www.jackhinks.co.uk
July 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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amnestyuk.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING: MPs have just voted for cuts to social security - with unwritten promises from the UK Government

This is reckless.

Disability rights aren’t optional. Poverty is a political choice. This Govt chose it tonight.

We'll keep fighting until this cruel Bill is rejected completely.
July 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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chronicleflask.katday.com
The *reason* Ai-generated text contains semicolons, en dashes etc. is that experienced, skilful writers use these marks to subtly convey meaning and nuance in their work. And the Ai LLMs have been trained on the stolen work of experienced, skilful writers.
June 26, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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feistybluegecko.bsky.social
This. Yesterday, today and tomorrow.
asls.org.uk Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Jun 22
My seventy-seven-year-old father
put his reading glasses on
to help my mother do the buttons
on the back of her dress…

—“George Square”, by Jackie Kay
LIFE MASK, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2005

Hear Jackie Kay read this poem on the @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social:
poetryarchive.org/poem/george-...
George Square by Jackie Kay My seventy-seven-year-old father put his reading glasses on to help my mother do the buttons on the back of her dress. ‘What a pair the two of us are!’ my mother said, ‘Me with my sore wrist, you with your bad eyes, your soft thumbs!’ And off they went, my two parents to march against the war in Iraq, him with his plastic hips, her with her arthritis to congregate at George Square where the banners waved at each other like old friends, flapping, where they’d met for so many marches over their years, for peace on earth, for pity’s sake, for peace, for peace.
June 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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pollyrowena.bsky.social
So proud of @catmitchell17.bsky.social and @pennyauthor.bsky.social for making a #Disability focus issue of @thebookseller.com happen after 3 years hiatus. So heartening to see such brilliant books by disabled, D/deaf, neurodivergent writers being published across genres, as in my preview. #BookSky
Books Spotlight page from The Bookseller: disability focus. Preview with tag line 'changing the world through representation', and five category picks by me: these moral bodies by elspeth wilson, awakened by laura elliot, the quiet ear by Raymond antrobus, Annah, infinite by Khairani Barokka and Ramping up rights by Rachel Charlton-Dailey, with intro text: In the three years since the last Disability Category Focus publishing has begun to shift its norms in response to demand for better representation, with successful examples of disabled children’s writers like Elle McNichol showing own voices narratives can be best-sellers, and making a commercial argument for the rest of us. In fiction, from literary to romance to sci-fi and fantasy, the ground for disabled, D/deaf and neurodivergent writers to tell stories with unapologetically disabled, D/deaf and neurodivergent protagonists has been laid and paved, and it shows in the wealth of stories in all genres being published this year. Crime has seen a similar shift, with Chris Bridges ‘Sick To Death’ gripping readers this spring. The space for complex disability memoirs continues to grow as does the need for practical guides both to living well as a disabled person, and to anti-ableism. Hybrid memoirs combining disability and nature writing have sown the seeds for disability nature writing to thrive, reflected in growing confidence from publishers. As disabled people in the UK come under threat of unprecedented withdrawal of support, it is more pressing than ever to hear from disabled people themselves, in their own words. Each of these books might just change the world if they reach the right readers.
June 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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womenslibrary.bsky.social
⏰️Deadline this Friday

We’re on the lookout for a part-time Production Coordinator to help bring our programmes to life at GWL!

This is a unique opportunity to work at the heart of our creative & inclusive feminist space

🔅 10 hrs/week
🔅 £27533 pro rata (actual £7,867)
🔅 Fixed-term until 1 May 2026
White text reads: JOIN OUR TEAM Information about the role at Glasgow Women’s Library
June 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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gndrising.bsky.social
There is enough money in this country. We don't have to make cuts. We don't have to invest in one thing at the expense of another.

But we do have to make the super-rich and corporations pay their fair share.

Our co-director Hannah on @bbc5live.bsky.social this morning 👇
June 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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englishpen.bsky.social
Presidents of English PEN, @peninternational.bsky.social, Wales PEN Cymru, @scottishpen.bsky.social have written to the Prime Minister highlighting grave concerns for colleagues across the OPT and calling for urgent action.

Read the letter ⤵️
www.englishpen.org/wp-content/u...
www.englishpen.org
June 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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realfraukassandra.bsky.social
Menschen in/um #Graz - das Rote Kreuz bittet dringend um Blutspenden. Zum Beispiel heute von 16 bis 19 Uhr im Jufa Hotel Graz: termine.blut.at/termine/exv8...
Blutspende in Graz, JUFA Hotel Graz
Auf geht’s – Zum Blutspendetermin am Dienstag, 10. Juni 2025 in 8020 Graz, JUFA Hotel Graz
termine.blut.at
June 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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ptbopoetry.bsky.social
We’re thrilled to launch a brand-new opportunity! With support from @ntsonline.bsky.social, we’re commissioning three bold, poetry-led performances responding to our theme: Anthropocene: The Human-Altered World. Full info▶️ pushtheboatout.org/work-with-us/
Ruxy Cantir performs In Deep on stage at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in 2024. Ruxy is dressed as a clown in an oversized pair of trousers and holding a bunched up piece of fishing net. In Deep was a collaboration between poet and playwright David McNeish and physical theatre maker and clown Ruxy Cantir commissioned by Push the Boat Out in 2024 as part of the Living Water: New Poetic Performances, in association with the National Theatre of Scotland. Photo credit: Chris Scott
May 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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alexpenname.bsky.social
So you agree? Our work is valuable and your industry can't survive without it?

Because that sure as hell sounds like something you need permission and should pay for.
May 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
annierutherford.bsky.social
A good read and a reminder that today is the last day to opt out of data scraping on meta products! (Link to do so is here: theaoi.com/news/meta-ai...)
tomhumberstone.com Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · May 26
My latest newsletter is out. Covered: Grok's meltdown, cognitive offloading, neo-luddism, resistance and Iain Softley's 1995 classic, Hackers!

grave-offerings.ghost.io/trust-your-t...
Trust Your Technolust
On Neo-Luddism, Resistance, and Hackers.
grave-offerings.ghost.io
May 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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twolinespress.com
Two Lines Press is excited to open a focused submissions call for translations of literature from Asia and Oceania. We highly encourage submissions of work from less-represented languages and from BIPOC, women, and/or queer authors and translators.

www.catranslation.org/books/submit...
May 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM