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TURKOSLAVIA is now open for submissions until August 15! Send us your poetry and prose in translation from Turkic* and Slavic* languages—broadly conceived––to turkoslavia@gmail.com. FAQs, along with our first five issues, over at: exchanges.uiowa.edu/about-tu…
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Please send us your poetry and prose translated from Turkic and Slavic languages (broadly conceived)!!!
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I'll be teaching Chaghatay literature at this upcoming summer school, designed to offer an opportunity for students of Persian, Turkic, and Urdu literatures to be acquainted with the shared Persianate literary tradition interlingually and intertextually.
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📢 Cover Reveal 📢 We’re happy to share a first look at our next title. From the celebrated author of Madonna in a Fur Coat, now discover Sabahattin Ali’s poems and a play. Coming soon!
Cover image: Ali's cell block in Sinop Prison. #sabahattinali
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Deep Vellum’s POETRY OPEN CALL starts April 1st.
details and guidelines: deepvellum.submittable.com/s…
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Read more Moldovan literature!
Read more Moldovan literature! The great Tatiana Țîbuleac's novel "The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes" is now available in English translation. My latest book review for @KyivIndependent.
kyivindependent.com/loss-and…
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In TURKOSLAVIA ISSUE 5, John Hennessy and Ostap Kin @ostap_kin translate two poems by Moisei Fishbein. We need more poetry in our lives, always. exchanges.uiowa.edu/moisei-f… #ukrainian
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Exciting news: @aliner is joining us as in-house poetry editor! Those of you who have already been graced with her editing—or have had the joy of reading her work or of just being in conversation with her—know what a special occasion this is for us all. turkoslavia.com/about
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'Sometimes I think about us ... as planets moving in certain directions, pulled by each other’s gravity.'
Translator Sasha Dugdale on her collaboration with Maria Stepanova for our latest #BookClub pick, and the importance of holding onto our humanity: tinyurl.com/d5tbepy7
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From revolutionary fighting for Ukraine's independence to vegan farmer in the south of France, Volodymyr Vynnchenko led a wild life. My piece on this brilliant but deeply competitive author, conflicted leftist, and ladies man now in @KyivIndependent.
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Our bestseller One Thousand and One Kisses draws on the tradition of the Nights: 65 loosely connected stories on similarly sultry themes, unfolding one after another. Read translator @burkukarahan's piece for a better sense of it: translationattached.com/2025… #1001Kisses
It’s called One Thousand and One Nights not because it contains exactly that many stories, or because the storytelling literally lasts that long, but because the number works as exaggeration and symbol. The title is formulaic and legendary, not strictly numerical. #1001nights
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BEST LITERARY TRANSLATIONS 2026 is available for preorder now! This instalment in our annual anthology was compiled from over 450 submissions written in 62 original languages.
It will be available on April 14th, 2026, and you can preorder it now on our website.
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This translation is from the new issue of Turkoslavia
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The Digital Library of the National Library of Serbia offers researchers access to digitized Serbian books, newspapers, manuscripts, and Ottoman-era historical documents.
#ottomanstudies #serbianstudies #history
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Featuring a story by our own Suhbat Aflatuni!
Our spring issues is finally here! Featuring work from @stellayywong and Tyler Patton, @row_ie_argument and Hassan Herzallah, plus translations of prose and poetry, with art from Jennifer Strings, find inside the much needed voices for late-winter days: massreview.org/issue/volume-…
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Wednesday at 4 pm is sure to be a disaster! Please be there to witness this possibility with me. 🖤
ATTN BALTIMORE BRUISERS & AWP CRUISERS:
JOIN US
for two power-packed off-site readings featuring some of BRUISER's best
Wednesday March 4 // Friday March 6 // 4 PM // RTH Gallery
BE THERE
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I translated a letter from Lesia Ukrainka to Olha Kobylianska for my students, and since it's Lesia's birthday, here it is - with a short essay on why she matters right now. open.substack.com/pub/uillea…
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My little love letter to Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi, whose INTERMEZZO is long overdue for a major English translation. (Hit me up, publishers!) The latest in @KyivIndependent + @UA_Institute's Hidden Canon project, give it a read.
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Next week!!
How beautiful are these book covers! In Baltimore next week? Don't miss his one-of-a-kind reading that brings together poets, prose writers, and translators from Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet countries who now make their homes across the United States.
ALT A collage of book covers
ALT Background: Blue with a black X in the lower right corner Foreground: Words in black read : Resistance + Reinvention Words in Yellow Read: Eastern European Voices March 6, 7:00-9:30 pm Library Nineteen 606 S. Ann St, Baltimore MD, 21231 Words in white read : A benefit reading for Ukraine Words in white read:This one-of-a-kind reading brings together writers from Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet countries who now make their homes across the United States. Taking place during the 2026 AWP Conference, the event celebrates a growing circle of poets, prose writers, and translators from complex, cross-cultural identities whose work is shaped by displacement and immigration, survival and resilience. Featuring Words in white read: Alina Adams, Valerie Bandura, Svetlana Binshtok, Daniel Blokh, Katie Farris, Katarzyna Jakubiak, Victoria Juharyan, Andrea Jurjevic, Ilya Kaminsky, Julia Kolchinsky, Maria Kuznetsova, Ellen Litman, Olga Livshin, olga mikolaivna, Asya Partan, Irina Reyn, Ena Sel
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