Featured in Publishers Weekly’s Endnotes, how the incredible cover for Ito Romo’s forthcoming book FILTH EATERS came to be with the hard work of artist Vincent Valdez and designer Jen Blair!

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Happy pub date to BEST LITERARY TRANSLATIONS 2026 from @deepvellum.bsky.social. I’m very proud to have a translation in this volume, a poem by a Kyiv-based poet Olga Bragina, first published in @consequencef.bsky.social.

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I love the recent book mail from Womb House Books, I have wanted to read the STW letters and had to get the poetry anthology. I am also looking forward to the new book from @deepvellum.bsky.social , I have seen rave reviews 📚✨

Best Literary Translations 2026, guest edited by Arthur Sze and published by @deepvellum.bsky.social, is out today. What an honor to be included in this vibrant anthology. Order it here: store.deepvellum.org/products/bes...

Including @jrichards.bsky.social’s translation of Marosia Castaldi, originally published in issue 33!

This graphic reads: 2026 BEST LITERARY TRANSLATIONS SELECTIONS: Featured selections: Chico Buarque, trans. by Alison Entrekin, “The Cousins from Campos” (46.1) Josué Andrés Moz, trans. by Janel Pineda, “The Grave (Instructions to Avoid the Crime . . .)” (46.2) Longlisted: Jorge Galán, trans. by Christopher Soto, “B.C.” (46.2) Krisma MancÍa, trans. by Emma Trelles, “Summer” (46.2) Michelle Recinos, trans. by Reyes Ramirez, “Casting” (46.2)

Congratulations to the New England Review contributors who will appear in the Best Literary Translations 2027 anthology (@deepvellum.bsky.social), guest edited by Emily Wilson!

Best Literary Translations 2026 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: Arthur Sze.

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Best Literary Translations 2026, guest edited by US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, is available now!

✨ it's always a good day when I have new work out ✨ here I am reviewing Rodrigo Hasbún's novel The Invisible Years, out now in translation from @deepvellum.bsky.social. it's so good! read it, buy it, get your heart broken by it

We could not be more proud of our contributors Jennifer Reeser (Winter 2025) and Anne Milano Appel (Summer 2025), whose translations were chosen by the great Emily Wilson for inclusion in BLT 2027!

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Three books: Aside from my Heart All is Well by Héctor Abad, The Book of Homes by Andrea Bajani, and Restless was the Night and Other Stories by Buddhadeva Bose.

More new books: I've never read Hector Abad but this sounds great (thanks @archipelagobooks.bsky.social), The Book of Homes features a quote from my review of Bajani's If You Kept a Record of Sins (@deepvellum.bsky.social),
and a long awaited collection by Buddhadeva Bose (tr @arunava.bsky.social)

Full Press Release here: www.deepvellum.org/news/announc...

Art by Jimmy Baldwin!

The inaugural Deep Vellum Music & Literature Festival is coming to Dallas July 10th-12th, with stages and venues throughout the Deep Ellum neighborhood. Full press release in comments!

From one of Colombia’s most innovative modern poets, María Paz Guerrero’s collection PINK TONGUE OUT, BLIND CAT is filled with sinuous verses on the human experience told in a cadence akin to salsa music.

Translated by the incomparable Robin Myers!

A fragmented inventory of being: Fourteen Ways of Looking by Erin Vincent At fourteen I decided I would be as hard as a stone and burn as bright as the sun. At fourteen. Australian writer Erin Vincent remembers being fourteen with a sucker punch to the gut intensity that…

ICYMI I wrote about Erin Vincent's brilliant fragmentary meditation on all that fourteen can be and more. @erinvincent.bsky.social @cbeditions.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social Upswell Pub
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Publication Day! It is such a great honour to be published by A Strange Object/Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social. I still can't quite believe it! 🤗

New arrivals. I'm very excited about these.
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A fragmented inventory of being: Fourteen Ways of Looking by Erin Vincent At fourteen I decided I would be as hard as a stone and burn as bright as the sun. At fourteen. Australian writer Erin Vincent remembers being fourteen with a sucker punch to the gut intensity that…

A fragmented inventory of being: Fourteen Ways of Looking by Erin Vincent @erinvincent.bsky.social @cbeditions.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social Upswell Publishing
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🧩 TONIGHT at City Lights LIVE! Monday 4/6 7pm PT
@maxlawton.bsky.social & Sean Thor Conroe
Antonio Moresco’s THE BEGINNINGS
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I reviewed Ito Romo’s novel “Filth Eaters” for the @latinobookreview.bsky.social. The book is out next month from @deepvellum.bsky.social. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did!

Filth Eaters - Ito Romo| Latino Book Review What makes good vampire fiction? Bram Stoker’s Dracula turned the immigrant body into a vessel for the anxieties of empire. Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire made immortality a theater for grief....

A prceptive, stirring review of FILTH EATERS by @itoromo.bsky.social.

“Romo writes the body with meticulous, devotional attention… The prose doesn’t separate the erotic from the predatory…That fusion is the novel’s thesis about power.”

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The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes by Tatiana Țîbuleac, tr. Monica Cure (@deepvellum.bsky.social). Reviewed by @memonteith.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/the-...

Setting an alarm for 11:59 tomorrow night

Deep Vellum’s POETRY OPEN CALL starts April 1st.

details and guidelines: deepvellum.submittable.com/submit

The Beginnings By Antonio Moresco Translated by Max Lawton The first novel in Moresco's magnum opus, the Games of Eternity trilogy. Publishing in 2026

“Special surprise” only available with paperbacks ordered through our own website: store.deepvellum.org/products/beg...

Rakkasan Tea: An Evening of Sri Lankan Tea — Deep Vellum Join Rakkasan Tea as they welcome journalist and Sri Lankan tea expert Diana Jendoubi for a conversation and tasting on Wednesday, March 25! Diana will discuss her experience living and working with S...

Tea enthusiasts in Dallas: Just a reminder that we're hosting a free event on Wednesday (with @deepvellum.bsky.social). Come check it out. We hardly ever do events!

Interview with Prof. Gisela Heffes published in El Nacional, World Literature Today | Modern Languages and Literatures An interview of MLL's Prof. Gisela Heffes has been featured in both El Nacional and World Literature Today. Conducted by Claudia Cavallin, the interview discusses Prof. Heffes' body of work, including...

My interview with Gisela Heffes, published in El Nacional and World Literature Today!

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The Translator’s Voice — Max Lawton on Translating Antonio Moresco’s “The Beginnings” - Chicago Review of Books An interview with translator Max Lawton on Antonio Moresco's "The Beginnings."

"Translation... should be more free... [but] let other people tell you where you’re coloring too far outside the lines."

Read Ian Battaglia's interview w/ @maxlawton.bsky.social on his translation of "The Beginnings" by Antonio Moresco (@deepvellum.bsky.social).
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