📚 The Voce Books Club returns with the spotlight shone on the formally & linguistically experimental 'A Book, Untitled' by Shushan Avagyan, translated from the Armenian by Deanna Cachoian-Schanz for
Tilted Axis

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And ICYMI, several translator friends and I are trying to raise funds for young poet Nadine Murtaja & her family to evacuate from Gaza. We'd love to reach at least $23,000: the equivalent of 4 PEN translation awards since we started fundraising 🤞

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Thanks to the Inpress Books 📚 lot for having me this afternoon for a catch up, talking #OptIndieBookClub , exciting new books, upcoming author events & more!

Can’t wait to share with you all the fun book plans for the autumn. More soon - meanwhile I’ll be reading these new gems! 📚

#Kazakhstan : Uralsk and its suburbs are under danger of flooding. The level of Ural (Zhaiyq) river has exceeded the dangerous level. Dachas are flooded and residents are evacuated. The Uralsk residents are worried. azattyq.org

Bocas Lit Fest, among the brightest biggest literary festivals in the Caribbean is almost upon us (April 25th -28th, 2024 in NALIS Port of Spain, Trinidad)

Highlights 📚🇹🇹🌊

“The writer who will travel the farthest to join the 2024 festival? That’s Geetanjali Shree, Indian

Booker prize winner Geetanjali Shree ( author of Tomb of Sand , Tilted Axis ) the 2022 winner of the International The Booker Prizes alongside translator Daisy Rockwell will make her Caribbean debut at the Bocas Lit Fest on Saturday 27th April in Trinidad, West Indies

Rebecca Abrams 𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 Sophie Lewis Congratulations to Charco Press, as well as to the other shortlisted presses!
Cassava Republic ScotlandStreetPress Tilted Axis

And a huge thanks to the hard work of Neil Griffiths and the judges.

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❣️ELEVATOR IN SAIGON GIVEAWAY❣️

We were overwhelmed with the requests for our gorgeous proofs of ELEVATOR IN SAIGON by Thuận, translated by Nguyễn An Lý.

Head to our instagram to enter the giveaway.

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signs at the rally on the second lawn here at columbia. thinking about all the groups of people who’ve come out these last two days to show true support and solidarity with palestinians

It's impossible to have a lovely cup of tea without declaring it a lovely cup of tea.

🌟 Attention poets! The 2024 Poetry London Prize is open! Prizes of £5k, £2k, & £1k, and judged by poet Hannah Sullivan, winner of the T.S. Eliot 2018. Submissions close on June 30th. Don't miss out on this opportunity to showcase your work! 🏅🖋️poetrylondon.co.uk/prize/

Call for Submissions: Focus on Dissent and Resistance

Deadline: Noon, 20 May 2024

modernpoetryintranslation.com/submit/

Now on WWB, Lora Maslenitsyna reviews Baqytgul Sarmekova’s collection “To Hell with Poets” (translated from Kazakh by Mirgul Kali, Tilted Axis), which is “dark and often sickening” yet “contemplative and wrinkled.” buff.ly/49D6U5g

LTI Korea is thrilled to unveil our latest exhibition - 'Springing to Life: A Celebration of Korean Literature that's Captivating the World'

Explore the award-winning works of 11 acclaimed Korean writers and poets at Starfield Library, COEX in Seoul.

Here's the scoop:
Dates:

We second this!! 👏👏👏

Which book will be declared the winner tonight?
Hint: it's one of these five.

Excited to celebrate all things small presses tonight with the Republic of Consciousness Prize! 🥳

Proud to have our own Non-practising Zimbabwean☝️🏾😌's debut #AvenuesByTrain shortlisted along such great titles and presses!