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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths

@yilinwriter.bsky.social
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Writer/Poet. Editor & translator, The Lantern and the Night Moths (Invisible Publishing 2024). Clarion West '21. ace 🏳️‍🌈. linktr.ee/yilinw

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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
got a lovely message about a short story I wrote and published like nearly a decade ago. sometimes it's hard not to feel depressed about publishing but it's nice to be reminded that work can still connect with people even many years after it has been sent out into the world
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'll be taking part in the Victoria Festival of Authors later in October. Will be speaking on the panel Transformation and Translation - please check out the event if you're interested. victoriafestivalofauthors.ca/events/trans...
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm going to Victoria (BC) in mid-October for a literary event. Wondering if anyone has recommendations for any antique stores, thrift stores, or flea markets I should check out if I'm looking for vintage photos, ephemera, etc. related to Victoria's Chinatown / Chinese Canadian history.
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
有偿寻求住在东京的中日口译译者/研究助理。我是秋瑾诗词的译者,10月底-11月初会去东京研究秋瑾在日本留学生活的足迹。想要找人在与大学博物馆以及图书馆档案馆联络时提供翻译,以及帮着查一些关于秋瑾在日本生活的地址。优先考虑熟悉日本文史研究机构研究流程,学术日语,明治时期/晚清历史/女性史的。欢迎自荐或者推荐 #翻譯 #東京 #中日口譯 #日本留學
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm looking to hire a Tokyo-based Japanese interpreter/research guide (fluent in Mandarin and/or English, preferably Mandarin) in preparation for a research trip in late Oct/early Nov. Looking for: help navigating a university museum/archives and finding some Meiji era-related sites/maps/photos/etc.
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is interview a lost art? I ask angrily as I respond to an email where the interviewer accuses me of "censoring" them just because I said asking "is translation a lost art" is inappropriate and they should avoid asking it of translators again in the future.
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy mid-autumn festival!
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
While I have your attention, anyone has thoughts on the signature and who it might be? I'm wondering if it might belong to a missionary, sinologist, or photographer with China-related ties, and how it ended up in Saskatchewan 🤔
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So a few days ago I found a copy of volume 3 of the War Scenes of the Chinese Revolution when doing research. 🫨 To explain how rare this is: this is a volume from the first and oldest published series of photo books featuring firsthand photos of the Xinhai Revolution,
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I had a really stressful experience at the city of vancouver archives where one staff kept policing my handling of ordinary non-fragile paper, letters/envelopes and business cards in the Paul Yee fonds. I have to go back today and it's stressing me out. It felt like I was on constant surveilliance
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mycorrhizal wong @rrrwong.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Please speak up to protect the Burrard inlet from dredging - sign the petition and share with friends #Vancouver: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I went for a walk around Chinatown and nearby and popped into a thrift store I have been meaning to visit and found some vintage looking books. one of them has turned out to be a stele rubbing from the Qing dynasty 😆 idk what's going on but the takeaway is to go for strolls when in a bad mood?
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I didn't think things could get worse 🫠 Having a really upsetting day today
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Went looking for a Qiu Jin stamp in a local international stamp store, and not only found her and her contemporaries, but also all of these 😂 i love the ones featuring historic buildings along the Yangtze River, the Shaolin Temple, and especially the Chinese mythology ones
an assortment of stamps on the wooden table
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
exhaustion from having to explain a terrible experience with a white translator who dismissively said "it has nothing to do with race" in response to BIPOC translators' bad experiences in publishing 🫠
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Last year, I translated @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social Jane Shi's poem "incense search engine" into Mandarin as a surprise for their birthday. After lots of drafts and tweaking and back-and-forth discussions, I'm really happy to share the translation that came out of our collaboration.
A translation of “incense search engine #AskYrAncestorsAnything” by Jane Shi from English into Mandarin Chinese by Yilin Wang

上香之搜索引擎 #你的祖先们有问必答
for Jane Shi

在你的语言里怎么说帮帮我
你每天早上会服多少克人参呢
在你的语言里怎么说哎呀受够了
你最喜欢喝哪种茶呀
在你的语言里怎么说别再折磨我了
你喜欢我给你包的饺子吗
在你的语言里什么颜色才是珍贵的
我该给你倒多少白酒呢
在你的语言里能听到蝉鸣吗
你喜欢我画的这幅画吗
在你的语言里我需要平息什么风暴呢
你觉得玉米怎么样哦哦哦
在你的语言里我继承了怎样的你
但你是怎样给我包饺子的呀
在你的语言里我需要放弃些什么呢
还有这个石榴呢
在你的语言里到底要怎么做才行啊
你如何打理头发呢
在你的语言里什么会带来失望
你喜欢什么香料呀
在你的语言里你是怎样留下来的
我真的好喜欢蟠桃啊
在你的语言里我还要继续搜吗
你也喜欢它们吗
你怎么念我的名字呢
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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is so cool and special, thanks so much @yilinwriter.bsky.social <3
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Last year, I translated @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social Jane Shi's poem "incense search engine" into Mandarin as a surprise for their birthday. After lots of drafts and tweaking and back-and-forth discussions, I'm really happy to share the translation that came out of our collaboration.
A translation of “incense search engine #AskYrAncestorsAnything” by Jane Shi from English into Mandarin Chinese by Yilin Wang

上香之搜索引擎 #你的祖先们有问必答
for Jane Shi

在你的语言里怎么说帮帮我
你每天早上会服多少克人参呢
在你的语言里怎么说哎呀受够了
你最喜欢喝哪种茶呀
在你的语言里怎么说别再折磨我了
你喜欢我给你包的饺子吗
在你的语言里什么颜色才是珍贵的
我该给你倒多少白酒呢
在你的语言里能听到蝉鸣吗
你喜欢我画的这幅画吗
在你的语言里我需要平息什么风暴呢
你觉得玉米怎么样哦哦哦
在你的语言里我继承了怎样的你
但你是怎样给我包饺子的呀
在你的语言里我需要放弃些什么呢
还有这个石榴呢
在你的语言里到底要怎么做才行啊
你如何打理头发呢
在你的语言里什么会带来失望
你喜欢什么香料呀
在你的语言里你是怎样留下来的
我真的好喜欢蟠桃啊
在你的语言里我还要继续搜吗
你也喜欢它们吗
你怎么念我的名字呢
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
i finally watched Niu Lai with a friend yesterday lol. i'm impressed and inspired by all the dedication and love that mother-son team poured into the project, even though the animation and plot are really odd at times 😂😅
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Toronto-based friends I know in real life: i'm looking for someone who lives in or near Markam to pick up a Chinese book, package it, and mail it via canada post. i can cover costs like gas, shipping, and packaging. anyone can help me out? thank you!
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
RIP, Yayoi Kusama 😢
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A while ago, when I was still away in China, I was approached by the editor of Write Magazine at the Writer's Union to write a piece about the day-to-day of a translator. This is what I sent them instead: www.instagram.com/p/DchGgSKScwj/ (will post a text version on my website when I have energy)
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
She saved lives. Thats her legacy - in so many charities and purposes, Dolly Parton saved lives. She never hoarded anything. She came from poverty, and knew to care for community. She is fundamentally - and fortunately for all of us - the opposite of what we see today. She was the best of us.
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
i got an email as a poet-translator where i'm invited to submit to the "2026 Stories Global Chinese Fiction Awards," which "explicitly allow reasonable AI or third-party assistance for translation". it's seriously messed up. so here's my PSA to please not submit to contests that allow AI
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/08/2026
For those of you following along in Bartz v. Anthropic, I gave some guidance as to when we might see money, and said in that guidance that it all depended on whether there was an appeal. Semi-bad news: there is an appeal. Want to know who is appealing? Do you, do you?
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/08/2026
I am going to do a new thread because I have now read the filings from the two law firms who are appealing and I have read the underlying order of the district judge that they are appealing.
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Yeah I am self employed as an English tutor, editor, sensitivity reader and translator (for more commercial work) to sustain myself and then I spend my free time on creative writing and literary translations. Writing is like a passion project that's also an extremely low paying job
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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in 2027! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out next year (or publicist), share the link/info here!
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
#namethetranslator
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Heard online that the British Museum is releasing a Chinese language edition of their China's Hidden Century exhibition catalogue. I hope they have paid and credited their translator(s) and ensured all copyrighted materials received proper clearance this time lol 🤪
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
it is when they keep subjecting you to verbal abuse
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Three writer friends I know have been to Sichuan (where my family is from in China) in the same month and I'm envious of all the good food and tea they are all having lol 😂
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026
The only conversation worth having is how Black people are overpoliced & over-punished & held to different standards in all aspects of life. That there is an outrage when Black people transgress that isn’t there when their non-Black counterparts do.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is 100% true. They'll gleefully destroy any institutional space that makes room for Black people, and then turn around and say it's for "intellectual diversity" or similar bullshit. And meanwhile, most of these "anti-wokers" are mediocre--at best!--occupants of those same spaces
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Thinking about all the terrible experiences I had with the British media in light of recent discussions
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
lol a lot of wuxia novels need to be 280 ep i think XD
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15/08/2026
Yuuuup. Understanding how LLMs and generative "AI" work is not some sort of secret knowledge, nor at its heart an unenduringly complex topic, and it turns out writers, who generally how to do research, are in a good position to get a bead on them.
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
really hating the auto dub on youtube videos 😅
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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Deadline is the 14th!! That's soon!! ANMLY is now open for our new folio exploring the yard as the site in which we understand modern Caribbean geography and social life. We're seeking previously-unpublished poetry, creative nonfiction, and art. No AI. More: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Caribbean Yard Poetics, ANMLY folio. Caribbean writers are invited to submit Poetry, creative nonfiction, and art. Submissions close August 14th. Guest editor Amílcar Sanatan, with ANMLY folio editor Shon Mapp.
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Good!
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Get calling!
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
terrible flashbacks about the time i was using British Museum compensation money (for stealing my work) to fund a project that was supposed to support literary translators, but i nearly got cut out from my own project... which left me bedridden from cptsd for weeks
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Recommended for folks who like translated poetry and essays on translation 😂
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
If you ever go to the vancouver flea market, beware of this antique seller who just screamed at me "you are not going to buy it anyway, if i move the stack of books for you it's trouble to put it back" when I was book shopping. I have reported him to the market
An antique market booth with lots of porcelain vases and decor
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
oh gosh the number of items i recognize here as someone in my 30s lol (btw i'm still slightly shocked every time i have to explain to a high schooler i tutor what is a landline phone lol)
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Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I found it to be of little use in writing anything of substance and I haven't used AI to write my stories. I've come to hate LLMs and I would never participate in a similar study today. I have been vocally against AI.
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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 07/08/2026
Eugenia has already said here everything I was going to say about this. One thing I will add is that the lasting thing I gained following this project was a deep hatred for AI slop and LLMs as anyone who has heard me speak on ths subject since knows. I saw how the sausage was made and rejected it.
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Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In 2022, before Chatgpt and everything that came next, I participated in this study. It was framed as a research on a new tool that I could try and offer my opinion on. I didn't know that it was trained on copyrighted material.
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