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proofreader, copy-editor, Welsh to English literary translator
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And if you zoom in far enough, you can see the Afon Adda in #Bangor getting a mention in the newspaper article. My short poem (7" version) about the Adda is in the Afonydd book; the 12" remix as it were, is here: sgwennusue.sueproof.wales/2025/05/09/c...
May 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Y Ring, Llanfrothen

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Once in a lifetime opportunity to invest in this historic community pub!

Cyfle unwaith mewn oes i fuddsoddi yn y dafarn gymunedol hanesyddol yma!

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March 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZP0... Me talking about #translating Yn y Tŷ Hwn by Sian Northey, and Emyr Humphreys talking about translating Y Dydd Olaf by Owain Owain into English. Both of these translated from #Cymraeg #Welsh. Emyr also translates from #português #Portuguese.
Writing Wales: In Translation
YouTube video by Just Another Poet
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March 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Dim wedi gwrando i'r bennod hon eto, ond bob tro yn adloniadol a difyr.
Pennod newydd Colli'r Plot!

Colli hyder wrth sgwennu neu ddiffyg hyder wrth sgwennu yw thema’r podlediad.

Rhybudd: Mae’r bennod hon llawn hyfrydwch!

Gwrandewch nawr: amam.cymru/collirplot/y...
February 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Educators, WWB Campus’s new free Caribbean lit unit is live! It features 21 works from all over the region with tons of resources and lesson ideas—and we couldn’t be more excited to share it with you. Learn more: https://buff.ly/417PF9Y
February 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
www.outsavvy.com/event/25372/... Online lauch. Free without the book, £12 includes the book. For all you #Bangor people, I have a poem in it about Afon Adda.
Afonydd Poems for Welsh Rivers Cerddi Afonydd Cymru online book launch Tickets - - OutSavvy
Join a wonderful line up of Welsh poets for a bilingual reading from Afonydd Poems for Welsh Rivers/Cerddi Afonydd CymruAn anthology of poems about rivers is the obvious eco follow on to Northey and O...
www.outsavvy.com
February 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Look what I spotted in the #Valentines window display of Browsers Bookshop, #Porthmadog, @3timesrebel.bsky.social . "Not exactly a meet-cute", I said to the manager. "No, we embrace all forms of love", she said. 😍
January 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
We've found since publication of This House that #Welsh #learner groups are also using my package of extras for reading groups. Welcome to them! Croeso i'r darllenwyr #Cymraeg newydd!
saesnegsue.sueproof.wales/extras/
@3timesrebel.bsky.social @libripotens.bsky.social
Extras - Saesneg Sue
A package of extras for reading groups to use with This House: discussion points, extra info about music, poetry and place, and recipes!
saesnegsue.sueproof.wales
January 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
💙📚One of the photos I've just sent to @arachnepress.bsky.social to illustrate my poem about the Afon Adda in #Bangor North #Wales. This river is culverted from source to sea. Bilingual Cymraeg/English anthology 'Afonydd: Poems for Welsh Rivers/ Cerddi Afonydd Cymru' out in May.
January 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
If you're involved with a #plygain service this Christmas, and you want a translation of a plygain carol that's singable in English, here's a translation into English I did a few years back of ‘Gwêl yr Adeilad', fitted to the tune. sgwennusue.sueproof.wales/2018/03/09/b...
Behold Creation – ’Sgwennu Sue
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December 14, 2024 at 4:24 PM
It's that day again. Wrote this #OTD in 2019, dreading the next day's UK general election. @oldenoughtosay.bsky.social , you might like this.
December 11, 2024 at 11:22 AM
#food writing
Writers interested in food may be interested in this call for submissions by @honnopress.bsky.social www.honno.co.uk/recipe-book an anthology of food writing from #Wales
Recipe Book | Honno Ltd
New Call Out Guidelines: Recipe Book
www.honno.co.uk
December 3, 2024 at 10:13 AM
📚💙Ydych chi'n gwrando ar bodlediad misol Colli'r Plot? Trafodaeth ddifyr am y byd sgwennu a llyfrau bob tro, ar ben adolygon llyfrau yn y Gymraeg a'r Saesneg gan 5 awdur profiadol. Good listening for #Cymraeg learners too.
ypod.cymru/podlediadau/...
Y Pod - Colli'r Plot
Colli'r Plot gyda Bethan Gwanas, Dafydd Llewelyn, Siân Northey a Manon Steffan Ros. <br /><br />Pedwar awdur sy'n bustachu efo plotiau yn gyson ac yn aml yn ei cholli hi.<br /><br />Fe fydd yna lot o ...
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November 25, 2024 at 9:47 AM
📚💙Anyone hear today's Food Programme on Radio 4, about descriptions of food in children's fiction? Worth a listen on Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/....
The Food Programme - Once Upon a Mealtime - BBC Sounds
Sheila Dillon explores how leading children's writers depict food in their books.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 22, 2024 at 1:59 PM
the-toast.net/2016/03/22/e... Thanks to Sam Jordison of Galley Beggar Press, who was our guide through six novels on a Critical Reading, Critical Writing course. Wuthering Heights was one of them.
Every Meal In Wuthering Heights Ranked In Order Of Sadness -The Toast
A willing foe, and sea room.
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September 11, 2024 at 5:09 PM
📚💙Do you run a #book / #reading club or group? Are you a member of one? (Or maybe you're an individual who likes to read more about a book.) Here's my latest blog post – a special extra one to complement the experience of reading This House. saesnegsue.sueproof.wales/extras/
April 3, 2024 at 9:47 AM
Do you write historical fiction? Want to get your first three chapters read and potentially win some big prizes? Enter the Historical Novel Society’s First Chapters Competition by February 15!
 
For all the details look here: hns2024.com/hns-uk-2024-...
February 6, 2024 at 6:36 PM
💙📚 saesnegsue.sueproof.wales/p-day/ New blog post! This blog is documenting being a mentored early-career literary translator. #TranslationTuesday #Translation #AmTranslating
January 16, 2024 at 10:31 AM
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Announcing the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2023!

"This year’s eclectic shortlist travels far and wide – not only in the cultural and linguistic background of the authors chosen but in the genres and forms they use."

tinyurl.com/wu8uh7v4
November 9, 2023 at 4:28 PM
Hello! New year, new social media platform. Also new book coming out in March 2024: my first adult literary #translation.
#amtranslating
January 4, 2024 at 5:18 PM