Wendy Call
@wendycall.bsky.social
wordworker / writer / translator / developmental editor / educator / co-editor & co-founder Best Literary Translations
We are looking for a new series co-editor for Best Literary Translations! Deadline to apply is Monday, August 4! www.deepvellum.org/news/call-fo...
Call for Applications: A series co-editor for Best Literary Translations 2027 — Deep Vellum
The Best Literary Translations co-editors are looking for a new editor with expertise in Middle Eastern literatures. The Best Literary Translations is an annual anthology that has been published by De...
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July 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
We are looking for a new series co-editor for Best Literary Translations! Deadline to apply is Monday, August 4! www.deepvellum.org/news/call-fo...
Bay Area folx! I am coming your way for a book launch at SF's Medicine for Nightmares on Tues, May 27, in conversation with the wonderful multilingual writer / critic Britta Stronmeyer, and would love to see you there! medicinefornightmares.com/events/deep-...
Deep Vellum and Center for the Art of Translation present: Best Literary Translations 2025 — Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery
Join Deep Vellum and the Center for the Art of Translation in celebrating the publication of the second annual Best Literary Translations anthology! Guest edited by Pulitzer Prize winner Cristi...
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May 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Bay Area folx! I am coming your way for a book launch at SF's Medicine for Nightmares on Tues, May 27, in conversation with the wonderful multilingual writer / critic Britta Stronmeyer, and would love to see you there! medicinefornightmares.com/events/deep-...
Plenty of grim news out there, but here's one point of light ~ today is pub day for BLT 2025!! Read it for brilliance coming to the U.S. from all over the world, from Algeria to the Faroe Islands to Puel Mapu to Ukraine! store.deepvellum.org/products/bes...
Best Literary Translations 2025
Best Literary Translations redefines the canon of global literatures in English translation, showcasing the brave and brilliant work of contemporary translators and editors. Guest editor: Cristina Riv...
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April 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Plenty of grim news out there, but here's one point of light ~ today is pub day for BLT 2025!! Read it for brilliance coming to the U.S. from all over the world, from Algeria to the Faroe Islands to Puel Mapu to Ukraine! store.deepvellum.org/products/bes...
Seattle-area folks ~ Would love to see you at Third Place Books Ravenna on Monday, May 5! www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/wendy-...
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April 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Seattle-area folks ~ Would love to see you at Third Place Books Ravenna on Monday, May 5! www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/wendy-...
Longest letter to the editor I've ever had published (this one co-written with the fabulous Whitney DeVos) is up World Literature Today's website. worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/transla...
“Language as Refuge”: A Letter to the Editor, by Wendy Call & Whitney DeVos
Wendy Call & Whitney DeVos respond to a recent column by Veronica Esposito.
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April 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Longest letter to the editor I've ever had published (this one co-written with the fabulous Whitney DeVos) is up World Literature Today's website. worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/transla...
All praise to Representatives R Tlaib (MI), M Pocan and G Moore (WI), N Valasquez (NY), D Ramirez (IL), I Omar (MN), J Crockett and A Green (TX), S Lee (PA), A Pressley and J McGovern (MA), L Simon (CA), A Carson (IN), and N Williams (GA) Shame on ALL others. What will happen when they come for you?
March 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
All praise to Representatives R Tlaib (MI), M Pocan and G Moore (WI), N Valasquez (NY), D Ramirez (IL), I Omar (MN), J Crockett and A Green (TX), S Lee (PA), A Pressley and J McGovern (MA), L Simon (CA), A Carson (IN), and N Williams (GA) Shame on ALL others. What will happen when they come for you?
Even as things grow grim and grimmer in the U.S., poetry shines a light. It's lovely to see this book still getting attention, more than a year after publication. rhinopoetry.org/reviews/mike...
REVIEWS — RHINO — How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems, by Mikeas Sánchez - Reviewed by Lúcia Leão
Self-translation is an encounter with the Other in us. Every new language brings a new universe, but when the other language is the language of the colonizer, exploring the meaning of that Other “new ...
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March 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Even as things grow grim and grimmer in the U.S., poetry shines a light. It's lovely to see this book still getting attention, more than a year after publication. rhinopoetry.org/reviews/mike...
Reposted by Wendy Call
“The Houses of Your Village Have Eyes.”
A Poem by Irma Pineda, in Three Languages
The houses of your village have eyes
that seek the beach’s sandgrains
in the distance they see the sun
that doesn’t shine on their heads today
doesn’t brighten their shingle-tresses
[...]
lithub.com/the-houses-o...
A Poem by Irma Pineda, in Three Languages
The houses of your village have eyes
that seek the beach’s sandgrains
in the distance they see the sun
that doesn’t shine on their heads today
doesn’t brighten their shingle-tresses
[...]
lithub.com/the-houses-o...
“The Houses of Your Village Have Eyes.” A Poem by Irma Pineda, in Three Languages
I first encountered Irma Pineda’s poetry in the Mexico City literary journal Generación in 2005, as I was writing a nonfiction book set in her home region (No Word for Welcome, Nebraska, 2011). Pin…
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August 25, 2024 at 10:51 PM
“The Houses of Your Village Have Eyes.”
A Poem by Irma Pineda, in Three Languages
The houses of your village have eyes
that seek the beach’s sandgrains
in the distance they see the sun
that doesn’t shine on their heads today
doesn’t brighten their shingle-tresses
[...]
lithub.com/the-houses-o...
A Poem by Irma Pineda, in Three Languages
The houses of your village have eyes
that seek the beach’s sandgrains
in the distance they see the sun
that doesn’t shine on their heads today
doesn’t brighten their shingle-tresses
[...]
lithub.com/the-houses-o...
Applications (simple & quick app!) are open for just TWO more days for our nine-day writing & yoga retreat in Oaxaca, Mexico, in late September. Generous scholarships for BIPOC writers! www.wendycall.com/farawaynearb...
February 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Applications (simple & quick app!) are open for just TWO more days for our nine-day writing & yoga retreat in Oaxaca, Mexico, in late September. Generous scholarships for BIPOC writers! www.wendycall.com/farawaynearb...
Two more weeks to apply for our September retreat in Oaxaca! (...AKA an eight-day respite from the madness....) www.wendycall.com/farawaynearb...
Faraway Nearby 2025 Retreat — Wendy Call
Description of the Faraway Nearby 2025 Yoga & Writing Retreat
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February 3, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Two more weeks to apply for our September retreat in Oaxaca! (...AKA an eight-day respite from the madness....) www.wendycall.com/farawaynearb...
Please spread the word! Tomorrow (Jan 8, 2025) is the LAAAAST day to nominate translations for the next edition of Best Literary Translations -- for work published in US magazines & journals in 2024. deepvellum.submittable.com/submit/30860...
Deep Vellum - Best Literary Translations 2026 Anthology Submissions
The Best Literary Translations 2026 anthology
Call for Submissions from anthology to be published by Deep Vellum
We are accepting nominations for the third edition of our annual anthology: The Best Li...
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January 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Please spread the word! Tomorrow (Jan 8, 2025) is the LAAAAST day to nominate translations for the next edition of Best Literary Translations -- for work published in US magazines & journals in 2024. deepvellum.submittable.com/submit/30860...