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Lawrence Schimel

@lawrenceschimel.bsky.social
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Reader. Multilingual author & literary translator. Kidlit. Poetry. SF/F/H. Comics. 🌈 He/él I’ve translated: Maggie Nelson, Danez Smith, George Takei, Juan Villoro, Carmen Boullosa, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Koleka Putuma, etc.

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Chytomo @chytomo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On International Translation Day, Chytomo turns the spotlight on the translators who help Ukrainian literature reach more readers worldwide.
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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For comparison: Sep 25: 77 books: 11 novels, 48 poetry, 18 graphic novels & 1 essays/stories book. Sep 24: 71 books: 14 novels, 46 poetry & 11 GNs. Sep 23: 28 books: 20 novels, 1 poetry, 5 GNs, 1 short stories & 1 memoir. Sept 22: 57 books: 12 novels, 34 poetry, 10 GNs & 1 essay. #booksky 2/?
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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#worldkidlit #kidlit #scbwi #booksky
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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's not even funny what kind of loss I will absorb if I have to create an account to do business with you. I will walk away from a winning lottery ticket, I promise you.
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We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚨 Applications for WNDB’s Walter Dean Myers Grants are officially open! 💻 bit.ly/2026WalterGrants 📅 Applications close at 11:59 PM on October 31st, 2026
Red graphic titled “Walter Grants: Applications Now Open”. A subtitle beneath that says, “$2000 grant opportunity for diverse, unpublished writers and illustrators.” In the lower left hand corner is an illustration of a writer sitting at a table and typing on their laptop. In the lower right hand corner is a light blue starburst that says, “Accepting Applications Through October 31st”.
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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's spooky season which means I can finally bring this piece back 🎃🐈‍⬛
A pumpkin patch featuring multicoloured pumpkins, some with carved faces, and black and white cats, frogs, crows and foliage
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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i am not an expert on london by any means, but this trip i felt the classism play out where if retail and service industry people feel you are not in (or, rather, performing) the right class, they will act unfriendly to punish your trespassing of norms. exhausting
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 3h
You should* preorder this splendid new book! *If you're so inclined.
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a book!
[in which, once again, I spend your money for you]
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 3h
The whiplash from seeing how the country’s being run to seeing how New York is being run. Daily Moments of “oh we can do that?” But in a good way.
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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 4h
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Nalo Hopkinson - Jamaica Ginger & Other Concoctions @nalohop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Help save "Room" (Canada's oldest feminist lit magazine), especially if you'd like to see new fiction from me in their next issue. But mostly do it because they rock, and they're important: roommagazine.com/whats-new/an...
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Save Room Magazine: A Fundraiser - ROOM Magazine
SAVE ROOM MAGAZINE: A FUNDRAISER Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary magazine, running since 1975. For over 50 years, our small nonprofit has carved out a space in Canadian literary publishing w...
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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 4h
#booksky
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maasslitagency.bsky.social @maasslitagency.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Deal: Martha Wells New York Times Bestselling author of The Murderbot Diaries Martha Wells has partnered with Cosmic Lighthouse for a graphic novel adaptation of All Systems Red. All Systems Red by Martha Wells is being officially adapted into a graphic novel by Erica Schultz (Daredevil, Spawn and…
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Deal: Martha Wells
New York Times Bestselling author of The Murderbot Diaries Martha Wells has partnered with Cosmic Lighthouse for a graphic novel adaptation of All Systems Red. All Systems Red by Martha Wells is being officially adapted into a graphic novel by Erica Schultz (Daredevil, Spawn and X-Men) and Gary Erskine (Dan Dare, Hellblazer, Punisher and Wolverine), published by Cosmic Lighthouse, and containing a new Murderbot short story by Martha Wells, exclusive to the graphic novel.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 6h
Thrilled to share the cover art for "From An Antique Land," a new short story @reactorsff.bsky.social will publish on November 18! Art by Jon Juarez, editor @annvandermeer.bsky.social
red overhanging rock and blue ruins below. 

 

From an Antique Land

by Jeff VanderMeer

Illustrated by Jon Juarez

Edited by Ann VanderMeer
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 7h
Morning, theydies and gentlefolk! Today's the day! We'll see you in a couple of hours.
Ignyte Awards 2026: Winners Announcement Oct 3 @ 12pm ET
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Joe Keenan @joekeenan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos." Hegseth's vision for the military always sounds like an old gay personals ad written by a fussy Bloomingdale's necktie salesman named Bryce.
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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Standing in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ people of Turkey against these draconian human rights abuses. 🌈 www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Turkish police detain dozens in raids on gay bars and homes of LGBTQ+ activists
Human rights groups in Turkey have accused the government of using a family- values campaign to target the LGBTQ+ community.
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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today is the start of 2SLGBTQI+ History Month. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ I may be biased, but I know the perfect book to help celebrate and educate. Get your copy at Audreys, Magpie, or your local independent bookstore. 📚🌈 magpiebooks.ca/item/s55Ya9R...
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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
social media is for socializing. if you are not enjoying who you are socializing with, then you should probs stop engaging with them. internet time can be fun if you maintain your own boundaries, just like real life.
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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What a perfect way to celebrate both #InternationalTranslationDay #ITD & the last day of #WorldKidLitMonth: my translator copies of WHEN YOU WERE A CLOUD written by María José Ferrada & illustrated by Azul López (@theemmapress.bsky.social) arrived in the mail! 😍😍 #kidlit #booksky #worldkidlit #xl8
A selfie (I am a middle-aged white man with close-cropped dark hair and a close-cropped salt-and-pepper beard, wearing a black t-shirt) in front of the bookcase of books I've translated, holding a copy of WHEN yOU WERE A CLOUD, published by The Emma Press, featuring an image by Azul López on the cover of a female-presenting dark-skinned figure in a yellow t-shirt and blue shorts lying on a golden field, looking upward, surrounded by red and green splotches to represent flowers.A photo of my hand holding two copies of WHEN YOU WERE A CLOUD, so we can see the spine, which reads: Ferrada, López & Schimel and then the title.

So the translator is named not just on the cover but even on the spine!
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 18h
I would advise people not to talk to USA Today for any reason, about anything ever, based on this thread. It's bad enough that the whole profession is circling the drain, but for a remaining publication to feed interviews into a slopifier without telling sources? When it's about SA? I just.. 🌋
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USBBY @usbby.bsky.social · 13h
The World Directory of Children’s Book Translators, launched in partnership with UNESCO’s Index Translationum, provides a database of professional translators specializing in children’s literature www.bolognachildrensbookfair.com/en/focus-on/...
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World Directory of Children’s Book Translators
The World Directory of Children’s Book Translators was launched in partnership with UNESCO’s Index Translationum. A database listing professional ...
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 18h
"This is not models going rogue. This is gross incompetence & negligence by a particular company, which actually they could be held criminally liable for." @timnitgebru.blacksky.app cuts to the AI chase.
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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#writingcommunity #writersky #writesky #booksky
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Richard Mirabella 🐝 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
God, these AI spam emails really make your own novel sound corny to you.
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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 30/09/2026
"What is beautiful in a good novel hasn’t strayed in accidentally. Beauty in the novel is bone-deep, essential. Everything in a good story or novel is essential." You can read the original post here:
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Ursula K. Le Guin — 25. Petty Expectations
Part One. Critical Expectation: Genre and “Literary” Fiction I’ve been pondering, tracing connections, wondering about expectations. The first object of my brooding is a pair of sentences from a boo...
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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#kidlit #kidlitart #writingcommunity
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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 02/10/2026
Also YES HELLO I don't think I realized that REVOLUTION IN THE HEART was out already! Would love to see people pick up this gorgeous anthology -- I talk a bit about my story RIVER RUN RIOT RUN DRY and the difficulty of the idea/process in the commentary of blog 25! :D
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Revolution in the Heart by Charlie Jane Anders, Ai Jiang, Karen Joy Fowler, Ann Leckie, Kelly Link, Chana Porter, Aliya Whiteley, Premee Mohamed, Darcie Little Badger: 9781835412749 | PenguinRandomHou...
15 brand-new short stories inspired by and in honour of legendary writer Ursula K. Le Guin. Featuring Ann Leckie, Karen Joy Fowler, Charlie Jane Anders, Kelly Link, Ai Jiang and many others. Ursula...
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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My somewhat belated blog post about accessibility issues at the Los Angeles Worldcon is up: marikness.wordpress.com/2026/10/02/w...
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Worldcon 2026: Yes. Again.
Worldcon San Antonio 2013: I am on the floor, on a panel about poetry and fiction, unable to join my fellow panelists up on stage, because I am using a wheelchair, and the stage does not have a ram…
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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#writingcommunity #writersky
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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have too many thoughts. Like when it's summer and you have too much zucchini in your garden and you're just oh please God let up on the zucchini
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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My favorite place to go is back to bed
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Emma Kantor @emkantor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I hope you all had a wonderful World Kid Lit Month! It was a joy putting together coverage for Publishers Weekly: 10 stories for 10 years of @worldkidlit.bsky.social. Thanks to all the translators, publishers, librarians, & other children's lit champions who help inspire kids to read across borders
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World Kid Lit Month 2026: All Our Coverage
In honor of the 10th annual World Kid Lit Month, we bring you a series of stories spotlighting international creators past and present, and the connective power of children’s books in translation.
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 25/09/2026
New #WriterBeware blog post: If you're a writer, you've probably gotten one (or more) of those AI-generated scam marketing emails or book club invites that make it seem like the sender really read your book. Here's a little peek at how it's done. writerbeware.blog/2026/09/25/h...
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How Those Personalized Generative AI Scam Emails Are Built - Writer Beware
One of the things I often hear from writers whose inboxes are crammed with incredibly personalized marketing or book club or editor impersonation emails–you know, the ones that make it seem the sender...
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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#kidlituk
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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
😍 #writingcommunity #booksky
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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Started a reread of Septology by Jon Fosse, translated with sublime skill by Damion Searls. The feeling I had when reading this for the first time (in three separate volumes) has never left me and in truth I've probably been seeking it in all the books I've read since.
Plain blue Fitzcarraldo cover
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/10/2026
He is so good at messaging. It's really kind of unreal.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/10/2026
Got something in two minutes before deadline, which means, you guessed it, IT WAS IN EARLY.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's Black History Month in the uk! Schools, businesses etc this is your reminder to book Black authors and speakers IN OTHER MONTHS not just october.
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