Join us for the final event (for now at least!) of the Feminist Translation Network project:
"Feminist Literary Translation in English: Insights from an AHRC Network"
📅Tuesday 12 May 2026
⏲️14.00-15.30 BST
🎟️ In person and online
Find out more and register: tinyurl.com/yyfb4vzs
📢 New blog post about feminist literary translation in Italian
Translator Matilde Miraglia discusses her feminist translations of poetry by Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2026/02/gend...
Audrey Kelly
"The Public Shows Up for Feminist Literary Translation!" - read @audreyeileenkelly.bsky.social's report of our #BhamLitFest2025 event with Marilyn Booth, @rudotranslates.bsky.social, Seán McDonagh, @eletenf.bsky.social, Georgia Wall & Anam Zafar:
feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/10/the-...
We definitely felt the buzz at #BhamLitFest2025! So happy that the Feminist Translation Network has been supporting the work of @writingwestmids.bsky.social, bringing literature (and literary translation) to audiences in the West Midlands📚📚📚
Registrations open for this online talk next week by FTN co-lead @olgacastro80.bsky.social at @bcltuea.bsky.social
The six translators plus event chair Rosalind Harvey holding copies of the "Anthology of New Feminist Translations", at The Exchange, Birmingham
Loved seeing a packed room for our book launch on Sat #BhamLitfest2025!
The anthology, published by @theemmapress.bsky.social & featuring work by Marilyn Booth, @rudotranslates.bsky.social, Seán McDonagh, @eletenf.bsky.social, Georgia Wall & Anam Zafar, is free to download: tinyurl.com/42h742h4
Room full of people looking at a panel of speakers. Man in the foreground reading a book
Listening to folk from the Feminist Translation Network (@ftnetwork.bsky.social) talk about their practice as part of Birmingham Literature Festival.
Last chance to grab a free ticket for our book launch tomorrow #BhamLitFest2025
In-person tickets have sold out again but you can still join us online: tinyurl.com/bd63rb4x
In-person tickets for our book launch this coming Sat are available again - thanks to a move to a bigger venue!
🎟️ tinyurl.com/bd63rb4x
With Marilyn Booth, @rudotranslates.bsky.social, Seán McDonagh, @eletenf.bsky.social, Georgia Wall & Anam Zafar
In partnership with @theemmapress.bsky.social
Tickets still available for the workshop this coming Saturday #BhamLitFest25 on feminist approaches to translating South Asian literature, led by Kavita Bhanot
🎟️tinyurl.com/2jk529yk
Presented in partnership with @writingwestmids.bsky.social & @englishpen.bsky.social
It's #BhamLitFest25 week!
Thrilled that the #FTN will be part of the programme for the second year running, with two events on Sat 11 Oct, organised with @writingwestmids.bsky.social, @theemmapress.bsky.social & @englishpen.bsky.social
Full programme here: www.birminghamliteraturefestival.org
A screenshot of an online meeting, featuring 7 people and one illustration of flowers
A screenshot of a Word document with various lines of Arabic and English highlighted in different colours, showing a translation process
A picture of a bedsheet decorated with red ribbon stencils and completely covered in black handwriting
A few months ago we hosted a scratch night for the translators involved in our collab with the Feminist Translation Network. It was an honour to peek behind the scenes of the translations-in-progress, with the translators sharing insights into their processes. Watch the recording: buff.ly/XkswZyU
Main Quad, University College Cork
Translation slam with translators Ruth Donnelly and Eileen O'Connor and chair Elizabeth Rosales Martinez
Thank you to lovely colleagues at University College Cork for hosting an FTN event as part of UCC's Translation Week 2025 - including an inspiring Feminist Translation Slam with @rudotranslates.bsky.social and Eileen O'Connor, expertly chaired by Elizabeth Rosales Martinez
Looking forward to the FTN event at University College Cork next week, part of UCC's "Translation Week" programme for International Translation Day 2025
@olgacastro80.bsky.social @rudotranslates.bsky.social
📢 New blog post by Helen Vassallo about her Feminism and Translation workshop at this year's Bristol Translates summer school:
feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/09/femi...
@translatingwomen.bsky.social @bristoltranslates.bsky.social
Hilary Brown (Principal Investigator), Eleanor Fillingham (undergraduate intern) and Olga Castro (Co-Investigator) at Dragon Hall, Norwich
📢 New blog post by Eleanor Fillingham, our brilliant undergraduate intern! Eleanor, a Classics student at Birmingham Uni, joined the FTN team for six weeks over the summer thanks to the College of Arts and Law Collaborative Research Internship scheme: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/09/the-...
📢 New blog post from Khadidja Merakchi @heriotwattuni.bsky.social about two feminist author-translators from Algeria, Taos Amrouche and Assia Djebar: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/09/from...
Free tickets for book launch at #BhamLitFest25: tinyurl.com/2f7c8dss
Sat 11 Oct, 2-3.30pm, The Exchange (in-person/online)
With Marilyn Booth, @rudotranslates.bsky.social, Seán McDonagh, @eletenf.bsky.social, Georgia Wall & Anam Zafar
@theemmapress.bsky.social
@writingwestmids.bsky.social
Calling all translators with an interest in South Asian literature!
Come and join our workshop at #BhamLitFest25, led by Kavita Bhanot
Sat 11 Oct, 10-12, The Exchange, Birmingham
Tickets: tinyurl.com/2jk529yk
Presented in partnership with @englishpen.bsky.social
@writingwestmids.bsky.social
Great to read that one of our #FeministTranslationNetwork events helped to inspire your PhD project, @rudotranslates.bsky.social!
Panel discussion about 'Feminist Translation and its Audiences'
Photo of speakers and FTN team
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the 'Feminist Translation and its Audiences' events in Norwich yesterday, co-organised with @writerscentre.bsky.social & @bcltuea.bsky.social - a lovely mix of reflections on practice, discussion, and poetry readings
#BCLT2025
National Centre for Writing at Dragon Hall from the outside
View of the inside of Dragon Hall
This is the venue for our #BCLT2025 events today, co-organised with @writerscentre.bsky.social and @bcltuea.bsky.social
Thank you to @hughespeg.bsky.social for a backstage tour of beautiful Dragon Hall before the audiences arrived! 🐉
Looking forward to this discussion about translations of ancient love poetry by feminists and non-feminists through the centuries #BCLT2025
The British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School is in full swing and we can't wait to join you on Wednesday 30 July for our events on feminist translation! #BCLT2025
Last few tickets left for our events on 'Feminist Translation and its Audiences' in Norwich this week, co-organised with @writerscentre.bsky.social and @bcltuea.bsky.social
Booking links here: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/02/even...
Congratulations to FTN member @rudotranslates.bsky.social 🎉
Illustration of a bunch of flowers with text 'An Anthology of New Feminist Translations'
Book launch coming soon!
Sat 11 Oct, 2-3.30pm
With Marilyn Booth, @rudotranslates.bsky.social, Seán McDonagh, @eletenf.bsky.social, Georgia Wall, Anam Zafar & Rosalind Harvey
The Exchange, Birmingham & online
Part of Birmingham Literature Festival
Co-organised with @theemmapress.bsky.social
Photo of Kavita Bhanot
Save the date!
Workshop on 'Translating South Asian Literature: A Feminist Approach', facilitated by Kavita Bhanot
Sat 11 Oct, 10-12
The Exchange, Centenary Sq, Birmingham
Part of Birmingham Literature Festival @writingwestmids.bsky.social
Presented in partnership with @englishpen.bsky.social
Brilliant new blog post by Marie Martine about a creative, feminist translation project she ran with undergraduate students in Oxford @queenscollegeox.bsky.social: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/07/femi...
What makes a translation 'feminist'? Catch up with translators Marilyn Booth, @rudotranslates.bsky.social, Seán McDonagh, @eletenf.bsky.social, Georgia Wall & Anam Zafar discussing their works-in-progress for a new anthology published by @theemmapress.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAwP...