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A network for the literary Global South · Bringing readers, writers, publishers, academics, and institutions in conversation · By @jshelat1.bsky.social and @dissentum.bsky.social
This extract from our British Latinx issue – titled 'Journal in Babylon' (Diario en Babilonia) – is from the unpublished diary of Afro-Cuban poet, novelist, journalist, and broadcaster, Pedro Pérez-Sarduy. It is translated by our Translator in Residence, @juanapoetry.bsky.social. buff.ly/QNBOlm0
Hellfire Through her raw, unfiltered voice, Mera recounts her descent into a hellfire of deceit, hatred, murder, and betrayal — a story from Phyllis Akpoti t.ly/KTVvx
Hellfire
Through her raw, unfiltered voice, Mera recounts her descent into a hellfire of deceit, hatred, murder, and betrayal — a story from Phyllis…
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In our July issue, Mina Raminsabet recommends 7 books of Iranian literature, culture, and history plus a “why read it” for each. worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/july/ir...
Elizabeth Nunez Awards 2026 Longlist Announced #LiteraryAwards #Fiction #CaribbeanWriting #BookSky www.writingafrica.com/elizabeth-nu...
Elizabeth Nunez Awards 2026 longlist Announced
The longlist for the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival’s Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean 2026 were announced on Tuesday, August 4, 2026.
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Check out my CFP, "Views from the Global South: New Horizons in World Literature," for ACLA 2027. It will be online, and there are plans for a follow-up publication.
Juan Meneses@dissentum.bsky.social · 4d agoCFP: "Views from the Global South: New Horizons in World Literature" ACLA 2027 seminar! It explores new disciplinary horizons that emerge from the comparative friction between the categories “world literature” and “Global South.” There are plans for a possible follow-up publication.
ACLA CFP: "Views from the Global South: New Horizons in World Literature" 👇
Juan Meneses@dissentum.bsky.social · 6d agoFriends! Consider sending an abstract for my "Views from the Global South: New Horizons in World Literature" ACLA 2027 seminar! The seminar explores new disciplinary horizons that emerge from the friction between the categories “world literature” and “Global South.” More 👇!
ACLA CFP!
Pavel Andrade@pavelandrade.com · 6d agoCombined and uneven modernism seminar for the upcoming ACLA. In person, U of Houston, 20-23 May, 2027. How do peripheral literatures register, model, and think the historical and material configurations of the world system? www.acla.org/seminar/f2f2...
In the latest @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, I had the great privilege of speaking with Guadeloupian author Marie Léticée and translator Kevin Meehan about their novel Camille's Lakou. Please check it out: newbooksnetwork.com/camilles-lakou
"Written in the first person, 'City Like Water' is as much about mourning as it is about the nature of memory." Teresa Xie reviews Dorothy Tse's dystopian parable "City Like Water": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/city-like-water-dorothy-tse-hong-kong-protests/
By chance—I walked into the film late. And there, in the middle of the crowd, my loneliness betrayed me. arablit.org/2026/07/20/n...
New Poetry in Translation: Sayed Abolela’s ‘Cinema’
This poem is from a forthcoming collection, مصمم معارك, to be published by the General Egyptian Book Organization.
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Read from the first chapter of Shady Lewis's third novel, A BRIEF HISTORY OF CREATION AND EASTERN CAIRO, newly translated into English by Katharine Halls. The novel unfolds over the course of a single day, against the backdrop of real-life events that took place in the 1980s.
A Brief History of Creation and Eastern Cairo by Shady Lewis, trans. by Katharine Halls
Read an excerpt from Chapter One of Shady Lewis's third novel, A Brief History of Creation and Eastern Cairo (Dar Elain, 2021), translated by Katharine Halls.
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Adam Oyebanji on Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize 2026 Shortlist #LiteraryAwards #Fiction #BookSky www.writingafrica.com/adam-oyebanj...
Adam Oyebanji on Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize 2026 Shortlist
Adam Oyebanji has made the shortlist for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize 2026 announced on Thursday, May 28, 2026.
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I wrote about dirt roads, dead ends, and capitalist hallucinations in José Agustín's _Se está haciendo tarde_. A long time in the making!
On a Road to Nowhere: Circularity and Repetition in José Agustín’s Se está haciendo tarde (final en laguna)
This essay examines José Agustín’s novel Se está haciendo tarde (final en laguna) (1973) as a work that gives spatial form to the collapse of the Mexican state’s postwar program of autonomous indus…
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Friendly reminder that we are meeting on July 31 at 2:00 pm EST to discuss Dorothy Tse's 96-page novella (a quick read!), translated by Natascha Bruce. See details below about getting a link! 👇
south·lits@southlits.bsky.social · last mo.South·lits, a new initiative about the literary Global South, presents its first event: a book club meeting to discuss Dorothy Tse's @graywolfpress.bsky.social novel City Like Water (translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce). Get your copy and support indie presses and bookstores! Details 👇
Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism mexicanists.org/2026/07/09/a...
Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism
by Ericka Beckman Verso Latin America’s agrarian novels chronicled the birth of a new world Between 1910 and 1970, Latin America experienced a rapid and radical transformation. Rural societie…
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Los Llaneros: The Mexican Southern Plains, 1500-1900 mexicanists.org/2026/07/03/l...
Los Llaneros: The Mexican Southern Plains, 1500-1900
edited by Joel Zapata, Andrew Reynolds, Alex Hunt and John Beusterien University of Oklahoma Press For centuries Mexican people of the plains—or los Llaneros—have inhabited and embodied the borderl…
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South·lits, a new initiative about the literary Global South, presents its first event: a book club meeting to discuss Dorothy Tse's @graywolfpress.bsky.social novel City Like Water (translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce). Get your copy and support indie presses and bookstores! Details 👇
You can also find Sumit's work in THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF -- he contributed a short comic called "Spacewali"! www.blaft.com/collections/...
The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF
An anthology of weird, fantastic, supernatural, Dalit futurist, & magical realist fiction by writers from South Asia and the diaspora. edited by R.T. Samuel, Rakesh K. and Rashmi R.D. cover art by...
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Graphic novels back in stock in our "Other Indie Stuff" section: Sumit Kumar's AMAR BARI TOMAR BARI NAXALBARI and Varun Grover's KAREJWA 🧵 www.blaft.com/collections/...
The July issue is out, featuring the special section “Iranian Literature: Persian Antecedents & Contemporary Culture,” Carolyn Forché, Santiago Craig, and many more. Check out the table of contents here and let us know what you think! worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/july
Friends! Consider submitting an abstract for the ACLA 2027 seminar "Views from the Global South: New Horizons in World Literature" I have just proposed. Please click on the link for details, let me know if you have any questions, and please repost! www.acla.org/seminar/fcb8...
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The final decade in our archives essay series is covered by Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng, looking at the years 2015-2025. Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng writes 'To My Faraway Friend: A Letter in Nine Cuts', a moving epistolatory prose-poem. modernpoetryintranslation.com/subscribe/
Check out this event from our friends @southlits.bsky.social on the 31st of July!
south·lits@southlits.bsky.social · last mo.South·lits, a new initiative about the literary Global South, presents its first event: a book club meeting to discuss Dorothy Tse's @graywolfpress.bsky.social novel City Like Water (translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce). Get your copy and support indie presses and bookstores! Details 👇
A great CFP for a conference in Toronto. "Literatures of the Global South: Space, Place, Environment." Details 👇
Call for paper | Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto
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Join our event, in which we will discuss Dorothy Tse's novel City Like Water! More information about the novel and a chance to get your copy directly from the press here: www.graywolfpress.org/books/city-w...
City Like Water | Graywolf Press
Your city is gone, as if sunk to the bottom of the ocean. So much has vanished with it—counterfeit watches, streets echoing with the sound of stilettos, and even some of your classmates and teachers. ...
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south·lits@southlits.bsky.social · last mo.South·lits, a new initiative about the literary Global South, presents its first event: a book club meeting to discuss Dorothy Tse's @graywolfpress.bsky.social novel City Like Water (translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce). Get your copy and support indie presses and bookstores! Details 👇
ZamaShort #15 'Guava Jam' by Lizzy Attree @lizzyattree.bsky.social. “Attree crafts a poignant, moving story with a strong sense of place." — Tendai Huchu, author of The Hairdresser of Harare. Pre-Orders Up, click link to see options and more! #AfricanLit #ContemporaryFiction #booksky 💙📚
ZamaShort #15 'Guava Jam' by Lizzy Attree
ZamaShort #15
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The Slightest Green is “an expansive novel that offers readers access to a world too often reduced to explosive news stories or data-driven human rights reports. Mustafah is a witness, and this book is powerful testimony.” – Keija Parssinen worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/may/sli...
SO great to see @eliasjahshan.bsky.social and @marwankaabour.bsky.social on this list! Thank you @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/nine-books-t...
Nine Books That Showcase Queer Life in the Arab World
When the genocide in Gaza began in 2023, I remember seeing a repeated commentary on social media: every time a queer-presenting person posted about Israeli war crimes, a troll would pop up to tell …
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Join our event, in which we will discuss Dorothy Tse's novel City Like Water. Have we mentioned it's only 113 pages long? Feasible summer read for sure! For more details about our first south·lits event, see 👇
south·lits@southlits.bsky.social · last mo.Join our event, in which we will discuss Dorothy Tse's novel City Like Water! More information about the novel and a chance to get your copy directly from the press here: www.graywolfpress.org/books/city-w...
Join our event, in which we will discuss Dorothy Tse's novel City Like Water! More information about the novel and a chance to get your copy directly from the press here: www.graywolfpress.org/books/city-w...
City Like Water | Graywolf Press
Your city is gone, as if sunk to the bottom of the ocean. So much has vanished with it—counterfeit watches, streets echoing with the sound of stilettos, and even some of your classmates and teachers. ...
graywolfpress.org
south·lits@southlits.bsky.social · last mo.South·lits, a new initiative about the literary Global South, presents its first event: a book club meeting to discuss Dorothy Tse's @graywolfpress.bsky.social novel City Like Water (translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce). Get your copy and support indie presses and bookstores! Details 👇