Mayra Santos-Febres’s BOAT PEOPLE, translated from the Spanish by Vanessa Pérez-Rosario, “remains as devastatingly urgent as the day it was written.”. Read more about this collection from @CardboardHouseP! #WomenInTranslationMonth .

Be sure to bookmark our #WITMonth reading list for year-round recommendations from @HangingLooseNY, @GreenLinden1, @uglyducklingprs, @SlantBooks, @losthorsepress, @ZephyrPress, @AyinPress, @FeministPress & more indie publishers!

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Bea Vianen’s MY NAME IS SITA (@SandorfP) “shadows Sita, a young East Indian girl, as she copes with the loss of her mother and defends herself against her father’s many mistakes.”. This 1969 novel translated by Kristen Gehrman is on our #WITMonth list! .

Congratulations to the CLMP members publishing new issues this month! Visit our roundup for new works from @adroitjournal, @AfterDinnerCon, @AnodyneMag, @anotherchimag, @ArtemisJournal, @beestungmag, @conduitmagazine, @CV2magazine, and more lit mags:

“She moved to West Berlin at eighteen to work in one of the factories. Eyes accustomed to the colors of Istanbul. ”. Read “Özdamar’s Tongue,” an essay written by Mariana Oliver & translated from the Spanish by Julia Sanches, in @wwborders this #WITMonth: .

Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s LUNULAE “revisits and reworks poems from her previous collection.”. Check out this collection published by @WFUPress and translated from the Irish by Ní Ghríofa! #WomenInTranslationMonth .

“Drawing on her own experiences as a hostess and adult film actor,” Suzumi Suzuki’s novel GIFTED is an “intimate portrayal of the lives of a mother and daughter.”. Translated by Allison Markin Powell and published by @transitbooks! #WITMonth.

“I started taking anxiety medication two months after my father’s funeral…”. Read an excerpt from Adriana Riva’s novel SALT (translated from the Spanish by Denise Kripper & published by Veliz Books) in Tupelo Quarterly this #WITMonth:.

UGLINESS by Moshtari Hilal (translated by Elisabeth Lauffer) is on our #WITMonth reading list!. This @NewVesselPress book of hybrid nonfiction presents “the human body as a foreign specimen under the surveillance of judging, watchful eyes.”.

Check out Brynja Hjálmsdóttir’s A WOMAN LOOKS OVER HER SHOULDER (translated by Rachel Britton) for #WITMonth!. These poems from @CircBooks explore “what it can be like to be a woman and to slither through and away from threat to find voice.”.

Writers, submission deadlines are coming up at @SHB_books, @sho_journal, @9syllablespress, @SundressPub, @ZoeticPress, and more indie publishers! These opportunities close between August 30 and September 4:

Issue 41 of @FenceBooks features translated works by Lee Okbong, Claudia Peña Claros, Linda Maria Baros, and more! Be sure to check out the issue this #WomenInTranslationMonth:

Irene Solà’s I GAVE YOU EYES AND YOU LOOKED TOWARD DARKNESS (@GraywolfPress) is a novel “forged from the deepest and truest stories about the perversity of the body.”. Translated by Mara Faye Lethem & featured on our #WITMonth reading list: .

new words seeks poems and hybrid works for Issue 7 through September 1! The journal is open to trans* and gender-expansive poets. Submissions are free and writers are paid:

Have you browsed (and bookmarked) our #WomeninTranslationMonth reading list? Be sure to check it out for books from @arrowsmithpress, @worldpoetrybook, @nightboatbooks, @fonograf_ed, @thesongcave, @WFUPress, @action__books & more indie publishers:

Dania Suleman’s A DIFFERENT CLOTH, translated by Nouha Gorani-Homad, is on our #WITMonth reading list!. This forthcoming book from Ronsdale Press “offers a fresh perspective that acknowledges the empowering role religion can play in a woman’s life.”.

In THE LADY OF ELCHE, Amanda Berenguer “descends in search of images silenced by the neofascist Uruguayan dictatorship of 1973-1985.”. Read a Veliz Books poetry collection, translated from the Spanish by Kristin Dykstra, this #WomenInTranslationMonth!.

After nine months .of nourishing and carrying .a life in my belly (while I was working)…. —“Maternity Leave” by Karla Quimsing, translated from the Hiligaynon by Quimsing in @ANMLY_LIT, is featured on our #WomenInTranslationMonth reading list: .

Superpresent’s Fall 2025 issue will focus on the theme of “TRUTH”! Send in “all forms of visual arts, poetry, short stories, asemic writing, videos, and sound art” by September 1. Submissions are free:

Don’t miss brand-new books out from @RestlessBooks @GraywolfPress @RedHenPress @catalyst_press @PressFernwood @LFPbooks @grid_books @SlantBooks @HubCityPress @hostpublication @InlandiaInst & more indie presses! Find them all in our August roundup: