Happy International Translation Day! Two literary translators keeping each other company over Zoom while translating a novel from Maltese (Kat) & German (me). Please contact literary translators today & tell them how much you love them/offer them presents & cash.
My Substack starts tomorrow! Free monthly newsletter on what I’m up to, a featured bookshop & recommendations. Paid subscribers get a weekly writing prompt from me in their inboxes substack.com/@jencalleja
Writer (Vehicle, Goblinhood, Fair), literary translator from German (Wim Wenders, Gregor Hens, Michelle Steinbeck), publisher (Praspar Press).
Reprint!!! Makina Books have printed another 500 copies of my long poem Dust Sucker, first published online by The White Review. This little book also includes a German translation by Austrian poet Carolina Schutti 💜💙🧡 makinabooks.com/dust-sucker/
Universities - if you’re looking for supervisors for creative writing/creative-critical writing MAs/MFAs I’m here (though please pay me, unlike the last place I supervised an MFA student, where they said they had & then ghosted me for a year until I gave up)
I have some space this autumn/winter to give feedback on writing projects-in-progress (novels, story collections, poetry collections, memoir-essays). You can contact me on the email address on my website: jencalleja.com/contact/
1 Oct I’m starting a Substack! First monthly piece will be about going away to work on my translation memoir (out next year from Prototype), the dream café-bookshop I found & my new book Goblinhood. Paid subscribers will also get a weekly writing prompt 🐌 substack.com/@jencalleja
Writer (Vehicle, Goblinhood, Fair), literary translator from German (Wim Wenders, Gregor Hens, Michelle Steinbeck), publisher (Praspar Press).
I made a starter pack of literary translators on here. Let me know if you want to be added, or indeed taken off! go.bsky.app/4bjCEPr
You’re doing the Bluesky Lord’s work here!
I’m starting a Substack (RIP lost newsletter) All subscribers get an indie bookshop rec + mini bookseller interview; my publication, event & workshop news each month. Paid subscribers will get weekly writing prompts. Starts 1 Oct! substack.com/@jencalleja
