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Dive into the @fictionable , with readings and interviews from @mjohnharrison Joyce Carol Oates, Etgar Keret, Diana Evans, Evie Wyld and more…

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Climb into the Fictionable archive, with exclusive from @mjohnharrison Joyce Carol Oates, Ali Smith, Sarah Hall, Diana Evans, Etgar Keret, Sabba Khan and more …

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Is that sleigh bells jingling?

Give the gift of a year's free access to the best and from all around the world, with from Joyce Carol Oates, Etgar Keret, Ali Smith, Lizzy Stewart and lots, lots more in 2024…

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On the @fictionable we go looking for mushrooms with Catriona Bolt.

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Zwieblein, to poetry
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I was stupidly thrilled while reading my e-newsletter from @elcultural to find the word "letraheridos" (more or less "people hurt by letters") to describe what English might call or lovers—and now I'm wondering if the origins of this newer term have anything to do with declaring was hurt into ... Wherever it came from, I'm declaring it the best word I've heard in ages.

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Wrestling with work and illness, @seanbirnie dissects the everyday horrors of office life on the @fictionable

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We turn it up to eleven on the @fictionable with Irena Karpa and her short story, Fellow Traveler.
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The “International Center for Research on Collaborative rewards MA theses and PhD dissertations in English, French and Italian that make a significant professional/practical or academic contribution to the field of Collaborative Translation."

🗓️Deadline for Submissions: January 30, 2024

📌Further Information:
https://avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/job/ma-thesis-phd-dissertation-on-collaborative-translation-award/ @italianstudies @litstudies

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i_ngli, to sts
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Isn't that a story of ala , ? Design intentions betrayed, design, body, voice, documents, humans, capital? Thanks to @sts for the ANT goggles :)
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/dec/02/viagra-inventor-welsh-miners-began-rise-dr-david-brown?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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Have you done all your shopping yet?

Give the gift of a year's free access to the best and from all around the world, with from Joyce Carol Oates, Etgar Keret, Ali Smith, Lizzy Stewart and lots, lots more in 2024…

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avldigital, to germanistik German
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The "Exhibit and Lecture" "TANGO TYPOGRAPHY. On Avant-Garde and Popular Culture in the Early 1910s" will take place at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin on December 4, 2023 ().

📌Further Information:
https://avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/event/tango-translation-typography-on-avant-garde-poetics-and-popular-culture-in-the-early-1910s-exhibit/ @germanistik @LitertureRussian @litstudies

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'Flowers are useful to no one.' Catriona Bolt stitches a growing obsession in her mycological short story, Bloom.

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Annie's watching telly in the staff flat and wondering when her life will really start in Matching up the Pattern at the Join by Shauna Mackay.

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#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #ShortStories @bookstodon

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When Lowe applies for an internship, he’s offered a job. @seanbirnie calculates profit and loss in his short story The Medical Room.

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When we offer a stranger help, where should we draw the line? Irena Karpa tests the boundaries in Fellow Traveler, translated by Kate Tsurkan.

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Image: Alyssa Black

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A series of letters arrives on sheets of old paper in I Can't Tell by @mjohnharrison But what are they communicating?

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This poem by Grigory Pozhenyan (1922–2005) later became a great song by Mikael Tariverdiev:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNfo3rZN7Rk

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'How should a society decide who gets to be a writer?

In the present-day US, the answer is simple: Submittable.com.'

Samsun Knight on the tyranny of the slush pile.

https://themillions.com/2023/10/on-the-tyranny-of-slush-piles.html

Or just send your #ShortStories to us:

https://www.fictionable.world/submit.html

#books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #translation @bookstodon

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for the "New Voices in ’s in . Culture, Power and Approaches", which will take place at Stockholm University () on August 22-23, 2024.

🗓️Deadline for Abstracts: November 30, 2023

📌Further Information: https://avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/new-voices-in-childrens-literature-in-translation-culture-power-and-transnational-approaches/ @germanistik @italianstudies @litstudies

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'Every decision in favour of a sentence is a decision against countless other sentences. Every decision in favour of a story passes up countless other stories. One word destroys another word. Writing means obliterating.'

Judith Hermann examines the paths not taken in We Would Have Told Each Other Everything, translated by @Katyderbyshire in Granta 165., due 23 November.

https://granta.com/issues

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On the @fictionable , Seán Padraic Birnie talks chronic fatigue, genre and the everyday horror of office life.

Catch it at https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/sean-padraic-birnie-work-office-short-story-interview or via and more…

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