Thank you for a very rich discussion this evening, Ece. Much to think on.

Today!👇🏼

We are thrilled to share that our Human Authored scheme is now live.

This scheme has been designed for the benefit of SoA members, to help identify works written by humans in a market increasingly flooded by AI-generated books.

Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign Thousands of authors including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman have published an “empty” book to protest against AI firms using their work without permission. About 10,000 writers have contributed to Don’t Steal This Book, in which the only content is a list of their names. Copies of the work are being distributed to attenders at the London book fair on Tuesday, a week before the UK government is due to issue an assessment on the economic cost of proposed changes in copyright law. Continue reading...

Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work

⏰👉 Calling all professional and aspiring translators: the deadline for applications for Oxford Translates is fast approaching.

Apply by the 16th March to make sure you don't miss out on our scholarship places (see our website for details).

Apply by the 31st March for the early-bird discount!

Warning: AI even hallucinates while translating, adding mistakes and references that are not in the source text.

In other words: just having someone proofread your AI-generated translation isn't enough. Hire a professional (who will tell you it'll take less time to translate the text themselves).

The 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction longlist! Join us as we reveal the 2026 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction longlist on Wednesday 4 March at 2pm GMT.

We are thrilled to reveal the 2026 #WomensPrize for Fiction longlist. 16 titles that showcase the profound force, resonance and scale of fiction writing: from tackling turbulent global issues to examining the intensely intimate. Discover the longlist here: youtu.be/fyPfDaHddLg

know, I know, times are tough and money is short but as we find ourselves increasingly in a world where stories are censored and the corporates buy up shelf space with their discounts.

If you are able please do support Independent publishers.

@northernfiction.bsky.social

Not in my name.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Germany’s Queen of Krimi is BACK with #AChastityRileyInvestigationSeries👑🦈

#SHARKS by Simone Buchholz (translated by @racheltranslates.bsky.social) plunges Prosecutor Chastity Riley into corruption, greed and deadly secrets in Hamburg.

ORDER YOUR COPY NOW!
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Image of the right corner of an office building against a purple sky. Overlaid on the top right of the image in black lettering it reads: for Early-Career Translators Apply by February 28, 2026 Words Without Borders announces the fourth annual MOMENTUM GRANT.

Translating a book into English? You might be eligible for our Momentum Grant, funded by the Malecha Family Foundation.

Read more about the grant here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Submissions are due by 11:59pm EST February 28, 2026. Winners will be notified in June 2026.

Advert for a new drama series ‘Dirty Business, uncovering a major sewage scandal, beginning on Channel 4 tonight at 9pm. It will make you angry, and so it should.

Won’t be an easy drama to watch, nor is it intended to be, but a big shout-out for ‘Dirty Business’ starting on Channel 4 tonight at 9pm. Starring Jason Watkins and David Thewlis, the series was inspired by a decade long investigation into England’s water companies. Horrific sewage scandal.

Nancy Naomi Carlson reads from Sylvie Kandé's GESTUARY (Seagull Books, 2026) A richly imagined, physically charged poetry collection in which history, myth, and protest are transformed into lyrical gestures. Sylvie Kandé’s Gestuary offers a collection of gestures—of death…

It's our privilege to share translator Nancy Naomi Carlson's reading from French-Senegalese poet Sylvie Kandé's GESTUARY, a timely and timeless collection inspired by unexpected sources including jazz, sculpture, the legacy of the slave trade, proverbs, and elements of Diola culture.

FAVORITA by Michelle Steinbeck is out today in my translation from @faberbooks.bsky.social 💗 🚬 💅 🍰

"Part hallucinatory road trip, part feminist revenge fantasy."

“an absolute joyride of a novel […] in a stunning and sure-to-be-prizewinning translation by Jen Calleja” - THE IRISH TIMES

The crisis in foreign language studies | University Challenged | The Critic Magazine Our universities are rapidly losing the very faculty for speaking foreign languages.

The crisis in foreign language studies. Our universities are rapidly losing the very faculty for speaking foreign languages. thecritic.co.uk/issues/febru...

Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

A pile of the winning books.

Tonight we announce the winners of our 2025 Translation Prizes. Nine literary translators and one editor will be honoured at a ceremony at the British Library, celebrating outstanding translations of prose, poetry and non-fiction, from languages from around the globe and across a range of genres.

The Turkish writer and thinker Ece Temelkuran: ‘We're going through a political crisis, but also a moral crisis’ The exiled author of How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Fascism, returns with a new book exploring how dissidents can find new communities. She talks about resilience, the comfort of...

Interview: driven out of Turkey in 2016, writer @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social responded with a book– subtitled The 7 Steps from Democracy to Fascism – that foreshadowed today’s authoritarian resurgence. Her new work explores how dissidents find new communities in exile
www.thenerve.news/p/turkish-ec...

Last week we co-launched Brave New World? alongside other creator organisations. This groundbreaking new report reveals the stark impact of GenAI on creators’ livelihoods.

In Brave New World? our co-launched report, we advocate for stronger platform protections against Al-generated copycat publications.

Write to your MP to make your voice heard. You can find a sample letter here
buff.ly/viwELVz

#JusticeForCreators

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

✨ Applications are open for the John Dryden Translation Competition ✨

Sponsored by the BCLA and the BCLT, the competition awards prizes for the best unpublished literary translations from any language into English.

bcla.org/prizes-award...

The ‘anticipatory obedience’ Timothy Snyder talks about in On Tyranny.

A bunch of kids holding up books they got from The Big Green Books 500 Club.

SCHOOLS!

Would you like £500 of FREE books?!

I do a thing called "The Big Green Books 500 Club"

Lovely people donate £1 each week & when I get £500, I send a school a load of books.

We're close to £500, so if you'd like some books, get in touch!

www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-bo...

“To translate is not just to haul stories across languages, but to help them remain when everything else falls away. It is a quiet, stubborn refusal to disappear.” #xl8

The Third Wheel is a new literary magazine, whose mission is to create a dedicated space for literary translators, and to illuminate the art of translation: the invisible struggles, creative battles, and quiet triumphs that shape every text.

sultry 😉

Photo of a beach with close-up of a mandala created with small pebbles on sand as it meets a wave from the sea

"Everything changes, nothing is lost", stone mandala by land artist Katie Griesar #WomensArt
#NewYear2026