There's still time to join our Poetry Inside Out Teacher Workshop to learn how to bring poetry in translation into your classroom. The workshop takes places over 3 90-minute Zoom sessions and will be held on August 4, 5, and 6 from 3:30-5 pm PST/6:30-8 pm EST: events.humanitix.com/august-26-po...

Poetry Inside Out Teacher Workshop: August 2026

These three 90-minute sessions (August 4, 5, 6) will give you tools and techniques that you can use right away to bring Poetry Inside Out into your practice!

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SEA NOW is sailing to the @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social! Join us and @catranslation.org for an evening with Eva Meijer and Anne Thompson Melo in conversation with Gregory Hom on August 18 at 6pm. We'd love to see you there! 👋 🌊🛶 sfpl.org/books-and-me...

Announcing the keynote conversation for Day of Translation 2026! ✨️ A revolutionary force in translation, Emily Wilson (@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social) dives into how revisiting classic works allows us to shift our perceptions and interpretations of the texts & of the process and power of translation. +

📣 We're hiring for two new in-person positions in San Francisco! @twolinespress.com is hiring a full-time Press Administrator to support the administration of the press, including maintaining the submissions management system, customer service & membership coordination, mailing & fulfillment +

Our third panel for Day of Translation 2026 is A RADICAL PROPOSAL: Literary Translators as Workers with Soleil Davíd (@soleildahveed.bsky.social), Kira Josefsson (@kirajosefsson.bsky.social), Frances Riddle, and Jeremy Tiang (@jeremytiang.bsky.social). 🔖 +

Calling all translators! You have until this Sunday, August 2 to submit to our Calico Series call for translations of poetry and flash fiction about S-E-X! See the full submission guidelines here: www.twolinespress.com/submissions#...

We're also open for general submissions until August 2 as well! See all the details here: www.twolinespress.com/submissions#...

We're looking forward to this! Brilliant panel to start the day, and has us think of Kate Briggs' thoughts on embodied translation (This Little Art): ‘I read with my body. I read and translate with my body, and my body is not the same as yours.’ Can't wait to hear from these brilliant translators!

The second panel for Day of Translation is CARE, COLLABORATION, TRANSFORMATION, featuring Seta Astreou-Karides, Zeina G. Halabi (joining remotely), Katharine Halls, Sabrina Jaszi, and Ena Selimović.

Our 1st panel for Day of Translation 2026 will feature Nichole Gleisner, Paige Aniyah Morris, Amanda Sarasien (@amandasarasien.bsky.social), & Jeffrey Zuckerman (@jmz.bsky.social), THE ART OF EMBODIED TRANSLATION will explore disability in translation as both a lived experience & a creative lens. +

We’re excited to announce the lineup for Day of Translation 2026 💫 This year’s program celebrates the deeply human elements of the art of translation, featuring 3 free, provocative panels and a featured keynote by Emily Wilson (@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social), and our community afterparty! +

@penamerica.bsky.social is celebrating Women in Translation (#WiT) Month with a reading series. On August 20, 8pm ET, the online session will be moderated by Joon-Li Kim, with readings in Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, French & English, Traditional Chinese, and Spanish.

Women in Translation Month 2026: Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, French, Traditional Chinese, and Spanish

These events bring together three panels of translators, joined by their authors, working in a diversity of languages.

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👀 Our home for literary translation is taking shape in San Francisco, and we’re so excited to share this quick behind-the-scenes look at our work in progress! We've literally raised the roof and more than 84% of our $17 million goal. +

Less than 2 weeks left to submit to @twolinespress.com! Our book publisher is open for both general submissions and for an upcoming Calico featuring translated poetry and flash fiction about sex. The deadline August 2! Read Senior Editor Sarah Coolidge’s interview about Calico's submissions call.

Q&A: Sarah Coolidge on Calico's latest Call for Submissions - CAT Center

This week, Calico opened a call for submissions of poems and short pieces of flash fiction on the topic of sex to be featured in its next collection. Sarah

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Not sure where to start? Check out some of our special sale bundles!📚 www.twolinespress.com/books?mc_cid...

For orders over $50, get free U.S. shipping and either a Two Lines koozie with a quote from Colette Fellous’s THIS TILTING WORLD or a Calico koozie with a quote from Luka Holmegaard’s poem in SPLENDOR!

It's the LAST DAY to shop our CAT Days of Summer Sale! All of our books are 30% off (40% off if you're a Two Lines Press member 😎)! You have until midnight PDT to shop, including select books starting at the cool price of $8! 📚 www.twolinespress.com/books

🗣️ @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social is offering two online workshops on translation: “The Contemporary Text: Writing through genres, translation, and resistance” with Ghazal Mosadeq, from Jul 19 to Aug 9!

Workshops & Seminars - Ugly Duckling Presse

Workshops & Seminars UDP editors, authors, and staff teach one-day seminars and four-session workshops on writing, poetics, letterpress printing, and bookmaking. Workshops and seminars are either…

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The first-ever Temescal Alley Book Festival will take place on July 18, welcoming small publishers, Bay Area authors and readers at Womb House Books. Learn more: https://www.kqed.org/arts/13991679/oakland-temescal-alley-book-festival-womb-house

Oakland’s Temescal Alley Gets Its First Book Festival | KQED

Womb House Books will gather small publishers, Bay Area authors and readers on July 18.

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Join @twolinespress.com this Saturday, 7/18, 12pm - 6pm, at the first Temescal Alley Book Festival followed by a reading party at Womb House Books (Oakland). The book festival is free and open to the public. Register for the after-party!

The First Ever Temescal Alley Book Festival

Please join us for the first ever Temescal Alley Book Festival with party to follow at Womb House Books

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Select titles are $8-$10...check out some of our themed bundles!📚

All US orders over $50 will ship for free and include a FREE beverage koozie for your favorite seasonal drink!🍹

High temps, low prices: it’s the CAT Days of Summer Sale! From now until July 20th all our books are 30% off (40% off for members). 😎 www.twolinespress.com/books

📢 The 2026 Granum Foundation Translation Prize is open for submissions. One winner will receive a prize of $1,500 or more. Applications will be accepted until 1,000 entries are received or August 1, 2026. Learn more at www.granumfoundation.org/granum-prize.

Granum Foundation Fellowship Prize — Granum Foundation

“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”

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🗞️ Our July roundup of literary translation news & opportunities is live on our website, featuring open calls for submissions, workshops, and more! Do you have exciting translation news to share? DM or tag us, we'd love to hear from you! buff.ly/uAAQ6p0

July 2026 Translation News Roundup

Our monthly roundup of literary translation news and opportunities.

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✍️ 3rd-12th grade educators: join our August Poetry Inside Out Teacher Workshop to learn how to bring poetry in translation into your classrooms. The workshop takes places over 3 90-minute Zoom sessions and will be held on August 4, 5, and 6 from 3:30-5 pm PST/6:30-8 pm EST. Join us!

Poetry Inside Out Teacher Workshop: August 2026

These three 90-minute sessions (August 4, 5, 6) will give you tools and techniques that you can use right away to bring Poetry Inside Out into your practice!

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We’re delighted to reveal the judging panel for the Bukhman International Booker Prize 2027. Katie Kitamura will act as Chair and will be joined Patrick McGuinness, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Olga Ravn and Tessa Thompson.  Find out more: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

The Bukhman International Booker Prize 2027 | The Booker Prizes

The 2027 judging panel for the Bukhman International Booker Prize, the world’s most influential award for translated fiction, has been announced

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We're delighted to announce that Bukhman Philanthropies has made a generous commitment to fund the next 10 years of the International Booker Prize. In recognition of the decade-long commitment, the prize will be named the Bukhman International Booker Prize. Find out more:

📣 Open Call: Prague Unesco City of Literature invites applicants to apply for 8 two-month residencies for writers & translators in 2027. The residency offers writers and translators accommodation, travel expenses & a monthly stipend of 15,000 CZK (~€600/$680 US). The deadline to apply is 8/7.

Open Call: Prague UNESCO City of Literature Residencies 2027 - Manchester City of Literature

Prague UNESCO City of Literature are offering eight two-month residencies for writers and translators in 2027. Prague is a beautiful city where historical architecture meets modern and vibrant city…

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Save the date! ✨️On 9/25 our annual Day of Translation returns to The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY (& via livestream). This event celebrates the deeply human elements of the craft of literary translation, featuring dynamic panels, insightful conversations, & a featured keynote.