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Monthly archive - October 2015

'I had yet to live an interesting life'

2 November 2015

'I remember telling myself that I had yet to live an interesting life. What could this twenty-something woman who'd lived only in Massachusetts write about? Weren't there enough poems singing the praises of New England leaves? I decided to stop writing. I needed to go out and extend the margins of my world before I'd know anything worthy of a poem.  Read more

'Writing is a kind of revenge against circumstance too: bad luck, loss, pain. If you make something out of it, then you've no longer been bested by these events.'

— Louise Glück

Translations in the news

26 October 2015

Two of our links this week relate to AmazonCrossing's announcement of $10m to be spent on publishing translations, an impressive figure which shows how much translations are entering the mainstream. Whatever your view about Amazon's initiative, there's no doubt that translations in general are garnering much more international attention than they used to.  Read more

26 October 2015 - What's new

October 2015
  • You'll have to move fast to get involved in National Novel Writing Month 2015, which starts on Sunday 1 November and finishes on 30 November, and is this week's Writing Opportunity. NaNoWriMo is a thoroughly international writers' event which challenges you to write a 50,000 word novel in one month - and thousands of writers accept the challenge every
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