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The Third Wheel is a lit mag conceived as a hub for literary translators. thethirdwheel.org

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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There was enough space on the cover for quite a lot of people... besides the translator...
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's The International Translation Day! Thank you, translators!
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Interpret the theme in whatever way feels most meaningful to you, whether through the text, its themes, its author, or your own translation process. Deadline (optimistically): October 31
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Submit to our second issue, The Forever Foreigner. Poetry, fiction and nonfiction in translation, and reflections on your translation process - translation diaries, drafts, correspondence with colleagues/editors or any work that explores the practice of translation and the person behind it.
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy Pub Day to Iana Boukova's "Traveling in the Direction of the Shadow", masterfully translated by our contributor Ekaterina Petrova. An enthralling read. Wishing them a lot of readers! www.nyrb.com/products/tra...
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Traveling in the Direction of the Shadow
A woman who reads the future in the faces of her lovers, a dice-player whose unfailing luck becomes a curse, a manuscript illuminator who leaves his monastery to become a most fearsome bandit. Set in ...
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We now welcome submissions for our second issue, The Forever Foreigner. Deadline: October 31. Guidelines here:
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How to submit to The Third Wheel? | The Third Wheel
Contribute to The Third Wheel, a literary magazine that celebrates diverse voices and unconventional perspectives in translated literature. Join us in redefining translation and authorship today.
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"Exophonic Translators and Volunteer Iowans" Aron Aji and Jan Steyn in Conversation with Ekaterina Petrova
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"Moss grew on my face. North, always just north, that’s what I breathe onto the paper. I made a funny little map, then rolled it into a ball and threw it away: two black birds squabbled over it." From "Tales from the Inuit War" by Imre Wirth, translated from Hungarian by gabor g. gyukics.
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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A Silly Epiphany by Antonella Lettieri | The Third Wheel
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"However, I believe that greater attention to the visibility of the translator should also mean a deeper understanding of the fact that all translation is interpretation and that this interpretation never happens in a vacuum." Read "A Silly Epiphany" by the Booker-longlisted Antonella Lettieri.
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Why Keep the Literary Experience Within Your Comfort Zone? A Conversation with Lúcia Collischonn | The Third Wheel
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"It’s about questioning the processes of translation—the binaries, the structures we were placed into and continue to reproduce." Read "Why Keep the Literary Experience Within Your Comfort Zone? A Conversation with Lúcia Collischonn." with @lucycolli.bsky.social
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Translation and Self-Translation: A Comparative Analysis of Elena Alexieva’s Short Story “Birds” by Danila Raycheva | The Third Wheel
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"Self-translation occupies an uneasy position within literary and translation studies, as it can be treated either as a form of translation or as a form of authorial rewriting." Read Translation and Self-Translation: A Comparative Analysis of Elena Alexieva’s Short Story “Birds” by Danila Raycheva.
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Tímea Sipos translates Blood of the Fish by Gábor Kálmán from Hungarian | The Third Wheel
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Dob Street was a loveable ruin. Only twenty-something-year-olds lived there. Gergő’s family owned it. For years, it was the temporary living situation for the youths who had moved to the capital from Gergő’s hometown. Read Blood of the Fish by Gábor Kálmán, translated from Hungarian by Tímea Sipos.
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
"Inside the joint mouths dance young beautiful actresses Wearing tongue-splitting ghagras The dupatta skids off their breasts Their laughter soon becomes the roar of a lion" Read Three Poems by Umma Habiba, translated from Bangla by Quamrul Hassan
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"I was kneading a delicate little spanakopita" A folk lyric translated from Gorani by Denis Ferhatović together with Denis's "Musings of an Exophonic Immigrant Translator: A Long-ish Translator’s Note"
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Susan Walton translates "Wild geese" by Owain Owain from Welsh | The Third Wheel
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"Do you hear them now—those wild geese? Do you hear that tension in the long whistling of their flight and the hard beating churning the air into sheets of steel?" "Wild Geese" by Owain Owain, translated from Welsh by Susan Walton @sueproof.bsky.social.
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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Dmitri Manin translates Two Poems by Olga Kolstova from Russian | The Third Wheel
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Two poems by Olga Koltsova, masterfully translated from Russian by Dmitri Manin. Artwork by Susan Pollet
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Exact Editions @exacteditions.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
@mekongreview.bsky.social showcases incredible writers and stories from Asia and Asian diaspora communities around the world. ✏️ Its front covers are also guaranteed to stun visually. This artwork is designed by Erica Eng. 🎨 Read via Exact Editions.
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Exophony provides the framework for Stiliana Milkova Rousseva and Max Kassoy’s analysis of Natalia Deleva’s Arrival and its Bulgarian translation, illuminating the arising structural and linguistic tensions. thethirdwheel.org/ghosts-of-th...
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Ghosts of the Mother Tongue: Exophony, Trauma, and Translation in Nataliya Deleva’s Arrival by Stiliana Milkova Rousseva and Max Kassoy | The Third Wheel
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"The narrator reflects on her position as a foreigner both at home (“here”) and abroad (“there”), articulating a sense of liminality––the emblematic “in-between-ness” of those who permanently navigate between cultures and languages, inhabiting at once both and none.”
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
With @majorbooks.bsky.social
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Artistic Risk as a Commercial Proposition A Conversation with Pascal Nguyen and Kim Tran from Major Books | The Third Wheel
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"We decided to go with pieces that unsettle and surprise. We think that this is the only way we can be faithful to our mission. Also, in an incredibly crowded market, editorial boldness is possibly the only real differentiator." Read more about Major Books' vision in the interview. Link in comment.
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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Sritama Halder translates JanBuLena by Ayesa Khatun from Bangla | The Third Wheel
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Read “JanBuLena”, a dystopian fever dream on humanity's deathbed. Written by Ayesa Khatun, translated from Bangla by Sritama Halder.
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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C. J. Anderson-Wu translates Drugs Are an Unopened Comic Book For a Drug Offender at Chiayi Lucao Prison by Pek-êng Koa from Taiwanesee | The Third Wheel
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
"Sound of demons sucking bones is heard in the gloomy cell You have to secretly hide your longing in an inner pocket" In “Drugs Are an Unopened Comic Book” Pek-êng Koa traces out the ragged contour of a confession-like delirium. Translated from Taiwanese by @cjanderson-wu.bsky.social
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Thank you! <3
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Happy Pub Day (yesterday) to us! We finally launched Issue 1: The Exophonic Translator. Thrilled and deeply grateful to the contributors for their trust and patience. Do give it a read! thethirdwheel.org
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"The Mythical English Reader is, therefore, not a form of benign snobbery (if snobbery can ever be benign) but serves as a superego of whiteness, policing all literature so that it continues to affirm the superiority and cultural capital of whiteness..."
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Issue 1 is just around the corner. What to expect? Translations of poetry and prose from French, Bangla, Russian, Welsh, Gorani, Taiwanese, and Hungarian, along with short‑ and long‑form essays and interviews on the wonders and challenges of exophony in writing, translation, and publishing.
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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Almost 10,000 authors have come together to publish an empty book protesting the theft of books by tech companies to train AI models. Titled Don’t Steal This Book, it is empty of text except the names of the authors involved.. 🧵
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Only a few days left to submit! Translations that take risks, spark conversations, and bring new voices into focus. Paratexts that let us peek behind the curtain. Share your translator’s notes, drafts, commentaries, correspondence, reflections on collaboration, or thoughts on translator identity.
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
For the contemporary Japanese lit zealots — a great interview with Brian Bergstrom on liminality, what gets lost (or gained) in translation, and more.
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CEATL @ceatl.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Hi everyone, If you are a literary translator, please fill our survey ! It only takes a few minutes and we need your feedback to get a clearer picture 😊 www.ceatl.eu/ceatls-ai-su...
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CEATL's AI survey
CEATL is reaching out to invite you to participate in a survey regarding literary translation and artificial intelligence.
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Just a reminder that we also accept art and photography submissions. We're looking for edgy, yet playful. Send your pieces to submit@thethirdwheel.org
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
So far we’ve received many excellent pieces, but we’re still short on short stories. If you have a short‑story translation you're eager to share with the world, do send it our way!
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Punch your insecurities in the face, and give it a go :)
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Maybe now’s the perfect time to dip your toes in lit translation?
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
We’ve extended the submissions deadline to March 1. Still plenty of time for you to submit and for us to get our chicks in order (starting a lit mag definitely comes with a learning curve :))
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A Space for Literary Translators and their Process | The Third Wheel
The Third Wheel is a digital publication conceived as a hub for literary translators and literature in translation. Alongside translated poetry and prose, we feature original writing that delves into the translators’ journeys.
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Translating literature into one’s L2: audacity, whimsy, or business as usual?
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The theme of our first issue is The Exophonic Translator and it will spotlight translators who work from unconventional linguistic backgrounds: multilingual or L2 speakers, heritage learners, and voices pushing against dominant language hierarchies. Want to contribute? submit@thethirdwheel.org
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The Third Wheel is a new literary magazine, whose mission is to create a dedicated space for literary translators, and to illuminate the art of translation: the invisible struggles, creative battles, and quiet triumphs that shape every text.
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