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Clare Richards @clarehannahmary.bsky.social · Feb 25
Excited (& nervous) to be sharing this personal essay on translating while neurodivergent, autistic-coding, the search for authentic representation, smiles as social currency, dropping the mask and more. Read the essay here: tinyurl.com/4veu435y
Image: fluorescent jellyfish of various shades of blue swimming against a black background Text: Face Value: Translating Divergence Image: fluorescent jellyfish of various shades of blue swimming against a black background Text: Clare Richards underscores the significance of D/deaf, disabled, and/or neurodivergent writers and translators presenting their community on their own terms. Image: fluorescent jellyfish of various shades of blue swimming against a black background Text: This disability issue of Words Without Borders is a collection of stories and essays about us and not them, written by us and not them, translated by us and not them.
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writerscentre.bsky.social
Call for Applications!

Open to translators who are Black, Asian or from Ethnically Diverse backgrounds working from any language into English, especially those connected to diaspora and heritage language communities.

nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/writing-hub/...
July 11, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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mailbykite.bsky.social
The book of my life (so far), ANNAH, INFINITE is an escape story.

A translation of a painting, in speculative nonfic, poetry & art. Took 14 yrs, &I’m inviting you to love it as I do. Aug 19 UK, Nov 11 US.

For reviews/i’views/events: tramy@tiltedaxispress.com
www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infini...
On a pink background with a dark red slash on the cover, book shows title, ‘Annah, Infinite by Khairani Barokka’, and ‘Tilted Axis Press’.
May 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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littranslate.bsky.social
New & emerging BIPOC lit translators! Apply for the Building Our Future 2-Day Virtual Workshop, meant to empower lit translators of color as they begin navigating the field. Led by poupeh missaghi & Sawad Hussain, w/ a business talk by Anni Liu. Free to participate! Apply by Monday:
ALTA
A L T A
literarytranslators.org
July 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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yilinwriter.bsky.social
I just made a donation to @wwborders.bsky.social in light of the funding cut. Please donate to them if you can to support the important work that they do publishing literature in translation.
wwborders.bsky.social Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · May 5
For most of our existence, WWB has received funding from the NEA. Now, like many others, we must chart a path forward without it. But our readers still deserve access to dazzling global writing. Please donate or share our work to support our mission of bringing the world close through literature.
The following text, above a green circle reading "swipe" connected to the WWB logo through a line: "Literature is how we create the world we want to live in. But that world is threatened by the administration's cuts to the NEA and the rich arts landscape it once supported. And the work we do to uplift bold, innovative global writing is newly at risk." The following text, above a green circle reading "swipe" connected to the WWB logo through a line: "Like many other arts organizations across the country, we learned on Friday night that our 2025 NEA grant has been terminated because our work “no longer aligns” with the administration’s priorities. Moving forward, we cannot rely on funding that has sustained our magazine and our programs for well over a decade. Yet despite these challenges, we stand firm in our mission to amplify global literary voices and invite readers to explore a wider world through literature." The following text, above a green circle reading "swipe" connected to the WWB logo through a line: "If you, like us, believe in the power of global stories, here’s what you can do in this destabilizing moment to support WWB and our vision of literature that embraces global interconnectedness:" A set of green text boxes organized above the social media logos for Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn, as well as a black button with white text reading "wordswithoutborders.org" and "wwb-campus.org". Two images, one of a teacher instructing students in a classroom and one of a selfie of smiling folks at a WWB event, are interspersed with the text boxes. The boxes contain calls-to-action to support WWB, including to donate, to subscribe to newsletters, to joine WWB Campus for free, to meet us at our free public events, and to follow us on social media and share our posts.
May 9, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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jentranslations.bsky.social
If you're an aspiring translator and don't use gen AI at all, haven't even touched it, and are willing to put in the hard work to learn, feel free to reach out and I'll give you feedback on a short translation or your resume.
fliglman.bsky.social Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · May 9
same in commercial translation I think. If the trend continues this will be the last generation of translators with a nose capable of sniffing out the shit. A generation raised inside the dungheap will never be able to develop the instincts needed to sniff out the shit
garius.bsky.social John Bull @garius.bsky.social · May 9
Was at a conference dinner a while back and one guy said "The future is AI. It doesn't replace senior developers, but no more need for juniors."

To which i replied:

"Where do you think senior developers come from. Straight from the womb?"

He went quiet, then wandered off to a different huddle.
May 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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terribleman.com
Today is a good day, a necessary day to repost this
‘It’s a scary time’: Sophie Lewis on the ‘enemy feminisms’ that enable the far right
In a new book the scholar traces a line from reactionary tendencies in history to anti-trans feminists today
www.theguardian.com
April 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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armorysqprize.bsky.social
Time's almost up! Just 4 days remain to submit for the 2025 Armory Square Prize, open to translators working with any South Asian language.

See guidelines and submit here: www.armorysv.com/translation-...
Armory Square Prize for Literary Translation — Armory Square Ventures
www.armorysv.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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antonhur.com
Incredible article—final point on how dangerously entwined Wall Street and Silicon Valley have become augurs a spectacular economic disaster on the horizon

Also that part about a projected data center using enough electricity to power three million homes 😱 Hope AI fails otherwise humanity is doomed
ddayen.bsky.social David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · Mar 25
Some astonishing numbers in here:
-OpenAI loses $2 for every $1 it makes
-OpenAI projects annual losses of $14 billion by 2026
-To break even OpenAI needs to increase revenue 25x in just 5 years
-33% of VC portfolios are committed to AI
-5 AI-heavy stocks account for 29% of the S&P 500's value
Bubble Trouble
An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.
prospect.org
March 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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harichaart.bsky.social
drawing my chronic pain - a multi-ankle fracture (7 o’clock anti-clockwise), a sprain and a bone spur created by physical trauma / working on physio every day and accepting my pain and limits ⛅
illustration of lower limbs with a bone spur
March 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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wwborders.bsky.social
From Dareumi’s heartfelt bond with a mailbox to an eerie encounter with a shadow-like presence, the line between reality and the unknown blurs for Kim Heejin's protagonist in “By Any Other Name.” Read the story on WWB, translated from Korean by Paige Aniyah Morris: buff.ly/aDq6dzp
By Any Other Name - Words Without Borders
After surviving a fatal accident, a young woman with OCD has repeated encounters with a shadowlike presence in Kim Heejin's "By Any Other Name."
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March 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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armorysqprize.bsky.social
📢 Submissions are now open for the 2025 Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation! The prize is open to English translators working with any work in any South Asian language.
Learn more and apply here: www.armorysv.com/2025-submiss...
2025 Submissions Call — Armory Square Ventures
www.armorysv.com
January 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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mailbykite.bsky.social
A reminder that the deadline for this is April 1!

‘Any book-length work of narrative prose, fiction, or nonfiction, by a South Asian author (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Maldives or the diaspora) will be eligible.’

#xl8
armorysqprize.bsky.social Armory Square Prize @armorysqprize.bsky.social · Jan 17
📢 Submissions are now open for the 2025 Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation! The prize is open to English translators working with any work in any South Asian language.
Learn more and apply here: www.armorysv.com/2025-submiss...
2025 Submissions Call — Armory Square Ventures
www.armorysv.com
March 17, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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bethangharad.bsky.social
This sounds amazing, @anamzafar.bsky.social!
If you’re in Dublin, check this out! 👀
March 17, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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suchmayer.bsky.social
Paige is one of my favourite translators & writers! This is an excellent read.
wwborders.bsky.social Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · Mar 15
In this essay, Paige Aniyah Morris explores the poignant themes of names, identities, and the intricacies of disability in No Matter How Odd by Kim Heejin. Read it on WWB: buff.ly/grEiVq4
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March 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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littranslate.bsky.social
📣 Emerging translators, don't miss your chance: Apply to the 2025 ALTA Travel Fellowships! These are $1,000 fellowships awarded to selected emerging translators to help them get to the annual ALTA conference, where they are featured in a special reading. Apply TODAY: alta.submittable.com/submit/
March 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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alexzucker.bsky.social
"a collection of stories and essays about us and not them, written by us and not them, translated by us and not them."

Shout-out to @clarehannahmary.bsky.social for this @wwborders.bsky.social issue and the work translators are doing on the discourse around disability in the realm of literature. 🌟
clarehannahmary.bsky.social Clare Richards @clarehannahmary.bsky.social · Feb 25
Excited (& nervous) to be sharing this personal essay on translating while neurodivergent, autistic-coding, the search for authentic representation, smiles as social currency, dropping the mask and more. Read the essay here: tinyurl.com/4veu435y
Image: fluorescent jellyfish of various shades of blue swimming against a black background Text: Face Value: Translating Divergence Image: fluorescent jellyfish of various shades of blue swimming against a black background Text: Clare Richards underscores the significance of D/deaf, disabled, and/or neurodivergent writers and translators presenting their community on their own terms. Image: fluorescent jellyfish of various shades of blue swimming against a black background Text: This disability issue of Words Without Borders is a collection of stories and essays about us and not them, written by us and not them, translated by us and not them.
March 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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jenniferlcroft.bsky.social
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
March 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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wwborders.bsky.social
On WWB, Paige Aniyah Morris contemplates the choice not to explicitly name disability in Kim Heejin’s novel “No Matter How Odd.” Read this essay on representation and style from our issue “Translating Disability”: buff.ly/aIqqHxC
An abstract, mazelike landscape with the quote “The choice not to foreground disability or to forgo naming it at all may be the result of any number of personal factors, such as a lack of identification with certain terms, a fear of stigma from using particular language, or a sense of distrust toward authorities whose approaches to naming can be violent and pathologizing” and the text “Translating disability. Oddly Ineffable: Naming People and Disability in Kim Heejin’s ‘No Matter How Odd’ by Paige Aniyah Morris.”
March 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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wwborders.bsky.social
Clare Richards underscores the significance of D/deaf, disabled, and/or neurodivergent writers and translators presenting their community on their own terms. Read the essay, her introduction to our issue “Translating Disability,“ here:
Face Value: Translating Divergence - Words Without Borders
Clare Richards underscores the significance of D/deaf, disabled, and/or neurodivergent writers and translators presenting their community on their own terms.
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March 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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wwborders.bsky.social
In “The Brightest World I Knew” by Lim Sol-A (tr. @‌clarehannahmary.bsky.social ), a woman’s apartment search in Seoul turns into an act of resistance. Read this story from our new issue “Translating Disability” on WWB: buff.ly/4kbVFXX
A pattern of mold spores with the quote “I would stare, expressionless, at the laughing people. They seemed oblivious to the texture of their own laughter. I didn’t join in, even as they laughed all together. Growing up, I was always called the ‘tactless child.’ And that was what I was, but I liked my tactlessness” and the text “Translating disability. ‘The Brightest World I Knew’ By Lim Sol-A, Translated from Korean by Clare Richards”
March 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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jmz.bsky.social
I *love* Adèle Rosenfeld's hilarious imagination and biting social critique, and her story THE HEARING-AID BRIGADE was such a treat to translate for @wwborders.bsky.social! wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
The Hearing-Aid Brigade - Words Without Borders
Immersed in the job’s chaotic rhythms and unsettling hierarchies, Edwin questions the very nature of language, labor, and meaning itself.
wordswithoutborders.org
March 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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lawrenceschimel.bsky.social
#xl8
clarehannahmary.bsky.social Clare Richards @clarehannahmary.bsky.social · Feb 25
Excited (& nervous) to be sharing this personal essay on translating while neurodivergent, autistic-coding, the search for authentic representation, smiles as social currency, dropping the mask and more. Read the essay here: tinyurl.com/4veu435y
Image: fluorescent jellyfish of various shades of blue swimming against a black background Text: Face Value: Translating Divergence Image: fluorescent jellyfish of various shades of blue swimming against a black background Text: Clare Richards underscores the significance of D/deaf, disabled, and/or neurodivergent writers and translators presenting their community on their own terms. Image: fluorescent jellyfish of various shades of blue swimming against a black background Text: This disability issue of Words Without Borders is a collection of stories and essays about us and not them, written by us and not them, translated by us and not them.
February 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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wwborders.bsky.social
Read an excerpt from the Booker-nominated "The Book of Disappearance" on WWB: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
February 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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wwborders.bsky.social
In “Translation and Erasure,” Daniela Tiranti reflects on the experience of translating a “disabled love story,” and of standing up for disabled characters during the editorial process. Read the essay: https://buff.ly/43fBodR
An abstract gray pattern with the quote “They think that disability would never happen to them, as if it is something they can control. It is likely that they haven’t had enough interactions with disabled people to really see us as human” and the text “Translating disability: ‘Translation and Erasure’ by Daniela Tiranti.”
February 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM