Pathlight: New Chinese Writing

29/04/2022

The League of Canadian Poets has launched a blog series for National Month. Here’s an essay by writer Yilin Wang, on translating classical , intimate connections, and more:
https://poets.ca/npm22-blog-yilin-wang/

28/04/2022

THE IMPOSSIBLE CITY: A Hong Kong Memoir is written by author Karen Cheung. Check out a podcast interview with the author and more introduction at Asian Review of Books:
https://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/podcast-with-karen-cheung-author-of-the-impossible-city-a-hong-kong-memoir/ -14363

Hong Kong is almost impossible to explain to those not from the city. Too often, the city has had to struggle with shorthand used by those writing about the city from afar—for audiences with little…

27/04/2022

Yan Ge (Author of STRANGE BEASTS OF CHINA) is leading a creative writing workshop on Friday, May 27 at National Centre for Writing, which will take place from 10am to 12pm UK time! Check out more details here:
https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/whats-on?s=Adventures+in+Fiction

22/04/2022

To continue celebrating the National Month, find five poems by Li Xiaoyang (李啸洋)/pen name Cong An, translated by Stella Jiayue Zhu up on Columbia Journal:
http://ow.ly/Sys150IP1jt

The Lock Fastened to keys and thieves in its fateJust as life is fastened to the bright and degenerate,To forgiveness or silence. Whether it is gold, silver, or bronze,In guarding a door, it also leaves longing beyond the thresholdWhen night falls, the lock sinks into infinite vigilance. Ordinarily,...

21/04/2022

Look out for more information from the Stephen Spender Prize, which will open on May 4! This is a competition for in . Submit an English of poetry from any language, find out more here: http://ow.ly/oOtM50IM5HM

20/04/2022

On April 23 & April 30, O, Miami Poetry Festival is having a workshop instructed by Layla Benitez-James & Jorge Vessel that focuses on translation and the nuances of the process. More info and RSVP at this link:
http://ow.ly/vgXf50IM5Ei

19/04/2022

Words Without Borders is now opening the application for Editorial Fellowship! Be sure to apply by May 16 before 11:59 EST, and check out more details here: http://ow.ly/U8Sf50IM5By

Part-time Remote Words Without Borders seeks applicants for its editorial fellowship. The WWB Editorial Fellowship program is designed to provide training for individuals looking to build a career around the publication and promotion of international literature. The editorial fellow will gain

18/04/2022

Part of the World Literature Festival at New York Public Library, on Saturday, April 23 at 11am EST, author Liu Yong (刘墉) will be discussing his wide collection of literary works as well as the influence of Chinese literature, more details and RSVP here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-conversation-liu-yong-tickets-310100708567

加入我们，一起欢迎作家、艺术家和教育家刘墉用普通话与我们进行交谈。

15/04/2022

At World Literature Today, find a book review by Gong Qiangwei on Chinese author Yang Benfen’s (杨本芬) sequel DRIFTWOOD (浮木), read more about the chapters and learn about the author’s style: http://ow.ly/l9q650IIh1Y

14/04/2022

If you’re looking for an opportunity to submit your or writing, Ugly Duckling Presse’s Issue 4 of second factory is open for submissions! Mark your calendar at April 18 and more details here: http://ow.ly/p1q650IHAFN

From March 28th through April 18th (end of day), UDP's second factory journal is accepting submissions in the fields of Poetry, Prose, Nonfiction, and Visual ArtSubmitters can purchase Issue 1, 2, and 3 of Second Factory. It's a great way to support the journal! However, it is optional and is not ma...

13/04/2022

Pathlight’s “Sense of Place” issue contributor Dave Haysom, has another out at Spittoon Magazine. Check out Chinese author Shen Danqi’s “A Reader of Translations (With Chinese Characteristics): http://ow.ly/Jukk50IGl8S

SHEN DANQIA READER OF TRANSLATIONS (WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS)translated by Dave Haysom He Yang had a friend named Guillaume, and Guillaume was interesting. If compelled to expand on “interesting”, she would describe him as “a maker of interesting mistakes”. Their mistake was the time th...

12/04/2022

April is National Month, and it’s about sharing lots of poetry from different languages! Check out this poem translated from Chinese by Yilin Wang “the wind would not stop” by Xiao Xi (小西) at Guernica Magazine:
http://ow.ly/OQtW50IGl4k

a child licks the candy wrapper; the treat has fallen into the mud.

11/04/2022

To start off a new week, let’s check out the latest episode from The Translated Chinese Podcast hosted by Angus Stewart! This episode invited translator Paul Bevan to discuss the novel THE ADVENTURES OF MA SUZHEN:
http://ow.ly/n3BH50IGl0s

08/04/2022

It’s always a good idea to read more translated from Chinese, and today, we have two from Aiden Heung at Columbia Journal. Find “On the Lookout at a Temple up Wugongtai on an Autumn Day” by Liu Changqing (刘长卿) and “Yangzhou Dreams” by Qin Guan (秦观):
http://ow.ly/rUzx50ICxBZ

On the Lookout at a Templeup Wugongtai on an Autumn Day by Liu Changqing On the stand that collapsedlong before my arrival, I haltand look to the autumn sun—it hangs like an idea of home.A temple, almost abandoned, unvisitedby men; clouded hills,refused to the other shoreby water, fall to a darker...

08/04/2022

What are the upcoming books in April this year? Check out a list of 12 new books at The New York Times, which includes “Rouge Street: Three Novellas” by Shuang Xuetao, translated by Jeremy Tiang, which will be out at Metropolitan Books:
http://ow.ly/Hb5Z50ICxuH

Novels from Jennifer Egan and Emily St. John Mandel, poetry by Ocean Vuong and nonfiction from Elizabeth Alexander. Plus: Did jealousy conceal the true inventor of the motion picture?

07/04/2022

At Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine, find “the car is backing up, please pay attention” (倒车，请注意) by poet Xiao Xi (小西) translated by Yilin Wang in bilingual version: http://ow.ly/V2zJ50ICxwS

be mindful of the rocks behind you, the tiny blades of grass

06/04/2022

Pathlight’s “Sense of Place” issue contributing translator, Dylan Levi King, has a published at The World of Chinese. Check out Hi-Lee-Bon by Chinese writer
Zheng Zaihuan (郑在欢):
https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2022/03/hi-lee-bon-fiction/

“Hi-Lee-Bon” by young writer Zheng Zaihuan, translated by Dylan Levi King, is a cynical and humorous tale of an old man and a mysterious snack

01/04/2022

Nightboat Books is now welcoming applications for their Editorial Fellowship, a program designed to support an aspiring BIPOC editor in developing a book project of their choosing for publication. Apply by May 15 and more details here:
http://ow.ly/TnTQ50IwJmq

Nightboat Books is delighted to announce our new Editorial Fellowship, a program designed to support an aspiring BIPOC editor in developing a book project of their choosing for publication at Nightboat! Over the course of the two years, the selected Fellow will become familiar with the full life c*c...

31/03/2022

Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB)’ summer workshop is open for applications! The workshop will take place this summer from June 20 to July 22. Submit by April 15 and check out more details about scholarship here: http://ow.ly/sUMh50IwJit

30/03/2022

One week left till the 2022 International Booker Prize announces its shortlist! Let's take one more look at the 13 titles on the longlist -- including works in from 11 languages.
http://ow.ly/2Jv150Itqvp

Including Geetanjali Shree’s ‘Tomb of Sand’, translated by Daisy Rockwell

29/03/2022

In the 69th episode at The Translated Chinese hosted by Angus Stewart, features a conversation between the host, alongside audiobook producer Nicola Clayton & voice actor Sarah Lam, on author Xue Mo’s story “The Women, the Camels, and the Dholes”: http://ow.ly/WPua50Itqtn

28/03/2022

TODAY at 12:30PM! You don’t want to miss out on this event hosted by Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies: “I’m That Tongue: On Visibility or Otherwise of the Translator” featuring guest speaker Jeremy Tiang, register here:
http://ow.ly/gEx250ItqnV

Event Registration Jeremy Tiang is a novelist, playwright and literary translator from Chinese. His translations include novels by Yeng Pway Ngon, Yan Ge, Lo Yi-Chin, Zhang Yueran, Shuang Xuetao, Geling Yan, Chan Ho-Kei and Li Er, as well as plays by Chen Si’an, Wei Yu-Chia, Quah Sy Ren and Han La...

17/03/2022

At World Literature Today, find a book review on CELIA, MISOKA, I by Chinese Canadian author Xue Yiwei (tr. Stephen Nashef) out from Rare Machines. On modern solitude, globalization and more:
https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2022/march/celia-misoka-i-xue-yiwei

Trans. Stephen Nashef. Rare Machines. 2022. 286 pages.

16/03/2022

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS- The Massachusetts Review is looking for submissions of , , , and hybrid works for the forthcoming issue highlighting works by disabled and/ or D/deaf artists.The issue will be co-edited by Khairani Barokka and Cyree Jarelle Johnson, find out more details here:
https://massreview.org/node/10298

Massachusetts Review

15/03/2022

“Revel in trash. Bound down a mountain. Take a ride on a nuclear sub.” Here’s a conversation between Angus Stewart & translator Steve Bradbury on poet Amang (阿芒)’s :
http://ow.ly/TiwI50IiGoB

14/03/2022

At The Center for the Art of Translation journal, find “To a Poet Who Hasn’t Responded for a Long Time (致某久未回復的女詩人)” by Lao Yang from P*e Poems (tr. Joshua Edwards & Lynn Xu), which is forthcoming from Circumference Books:
https://www.catranslation.org/journal-post/from-pee-poems/

Yao Lang translated from Chinese by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu. “Lightly tap the space bar once / To disappear / To make way for things”

11/03/2022

If you’re looking to add more literary works to your bookshelf, take a look at this review of Liu Zhenyun(刘震云)’s Yi Ri San Qiu 一日三秋 (Laughter and Tears: A Novel) at World Literature Today! http://ow.ly/a3MX50Ig9Eh

10/03/2022

“The One Who Happened” is a poem from Xi Chuan, translated by Lucas Klein. Xi Chuan is an internationally acclaimed poet, and has won the Lu Xun Literature Prize, check out his in at The Paris Review:
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/03/04/the-one-who-happened/

“On the street, he happened to avoid a car crash, and it was great that life could go on.”

09/03/2022

Cao Kou (曹寇), Pathlight’s Sense of Place issue contributing author, has another short story “Dragon” translated by Josh Stenberg, out in Paper Republic! Take a look and enjoy more of Cao Kou’s writing! http://ow.ly/gCbn50IaZkY

08/03/2022

Yu Xiuhua (余秀华) has written the poem “Prayer” in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, published by MCLC in by Ying Bao: http://ow.ly/5W6K50IaZ6A

07/03/2022

On Tuesday, March 8 at 8pm ET, find a virtual launch event co-presented by Asian American Writers' Workshop & Tor.com Publishing, on story collection THE WAY SPRING ARRIVES edited by Yu Chen & Regina Kanyu Wang! The conversation will be moderated by writer C Pam Zhang: http://ow.ly/vp4550IaZ53

18/02/2022

The February featured author at The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing is Yan Ge (颜歌). Read more about the author at this link, and learn more about her works in as well as episodes coming along with the literary works:
http://ow.ly/Rhrh50HVP75

17/02/2022

D**g Li, one of our Pathlight contributors, has three up at Cordite Poetry Review! Check out Song Lin’s (宋琳) “Jorge Luis Borges Imagines China (博尔赫斯对中国的想象)”, “Notes from South Xinjiang (南疆札记)”, and “Remembering Another Journey on the La Plata River Ferry (在拉普拉塔河渡船上对另一次旅行的回忆)”! http://ow.ly/K7jZ50HVOXv

16/02/2022

What about listening to a podcast episode about ? This new episode from Angus Stewart features his conversation with Jenna Tang on Taiwanese author Lo Yi-Chin (駱以軍)’s novel FARAWAY, translated by JeremyTiang, about grief, the state of limbo, and more: http://ow.ly/ukuH50HVOOO

11/02/2022

Looking to learn more about contemporary Chinese Literature? Here’s an event that might catch your eyes! On March 17, Paper Republic will be launching an event, featuring Eric Abrahamsen, Xiaolu Guo, Emily Xueni Jin, and Andrea Lingenfelter:
http://ow.ly/tkat50HRjkv

10/02/2022

We never get enough of Literary Summer Schools! Here’s another for you all––Bristol Translates is still accepting applications from translators, and this year, the workshops are taking place between July 4-8! http://ow.ly/tyIj50HOyaU

09/02/2022

Still feeling like celebrating the lunar new year? For the year of tiger, the Asian American Writers' Workshop presents the series “Flash Horoscope” (organized & edited by Swati Khurana) for more astrological insights!
http://ow.ly/e69x50HOxT7

Astrological insights from twelve of our most recent flash stories

08/02/2022

Are you a translator looking to participate in a publishing conference this year? Check out the 2022 schedule (February 22-24) from Comma Press, which offers a list of workshops and events for you to join!
http://ow.ly/Jmu050HOxHq

07/02/2022

Chinese author Sheng Keyi (盛可以)’s novel DEATH FUGUE (tr. Shelly Bryant) made its release last year in August! To look deeper into the themes of the book, , and more about the author, check out this interview by Tiffany Troy at the Los Angeles Review:
https://losangelesreview.org/interview-by-tiffany-troy/

I was born in the 1970’s in a small village in Southern China. There, people walked to towns and diesel engine-fueled ships

04/02/2022

At Paper Republic, find another short story “Mother” by Cao Kou (曹寇), the writer who also appears in Pathlight’s Sense of Place issue, with English by Josh Stenberg:
http://ow.ly/eM4h50HJSo7

1 One Wednesday evening, drunk as a skunk in a Beijing eatery, I got a call from an unknown number. While the call didn’t stun me into sobriety in the exaggerated way you might see on TV, it really did give me something of a shock. For this reason, I even left my drinking buddies to find what you ...