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We are thrilled to announce the four finalists chosen for the 2024 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing in Fiction! Read excerpts from all finalists over at @commonmag: thecommononline.org/read-excerpts-….

P&T Knitwear Books & Podcasts Friday, September 27 · 6:30 - 8pm EDT 180 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002 This event is an official 2024 Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event. Purchase tickets via the link in bio! #BKBF

Join us at @ptknitwear for an electrifying evening at the 2024 @BKBF! Get ready for a spine-tingling journey into The Dark Heart: Thrillers, Killers, and the Art of Obsession. Featuring authors @flynnberry_, Praveen Herat, Sam Bett , and moderated by Ed Lin.

Our friends @WasafiriMag are hosting the first workshop with their 2024/25 Translator-in-Residence @sawadhussain. ‘Writing Your Translation Memoir' is taking place online on Tuesday, 8 October, 7-9pm (BT).

Exciting day as we celebrate the publication of THE TRIAL OF ANNA THALBERG by Eduardo Sangarcía, translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer! 🧙‍♀️ Does evil lurk in the shadows of the forest or within the human heart?

Happy U.S. Pub Day to FROM SAVAGERY! In this English PEN Award-winning translation by Katie Brown (@DrKatieBrown), FROM SAVAGERY announces Alejandra Banca (@AlejBanca) as a resplendent and masterful new voice in Latin American literature—one that will take readers by storm.

Indie Presses Make Welcoming Homes for Immigrant Writing! publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/1-… via @publisherswkly

Don't miss the chance to listen along to Praveen Herat's debut novel "Between This World and the Next." Head to Largehearted Boy for the playlist! bit.ly/3WIrrSp

TEMPLE ALLEY SUMMER is a fantastical and mysterious adventure featuring the living dead, a magical pearl, and a suspiciously nosy black cat named Kiriko. 🔥 The paperback is out now! Order from us, and you'll receive free shipping! Link: restlessbooks.org/bookstore/temp…! #books #tbr

Huge congrats to Sachiko Kashiwaba and translator Avery Fischer Udagawa! TEMPLE ALLEY SUMMER was featured on the IBBY's (@IBBYINT) 2024 Honours List for its translation into English! To check out the entire list, click here: ibby.org/awards-activit…!

You can now read an excerpt of the highly-anticipated FROM SAVAGERY (@AlejBanca, @drkatiebrown) in the new issue of @LatAmLitToday! latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/2024/06/from-s… To pre-order FROM SAVAGERY in the US, go to: restlessbooks.org/bookstore/from…

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Deadline extended!

@DrKatieBrown @elliottholt @AlejBanca We can hardly wait! ❤️‍🔥

@elliottholt My translation of From Savagery by @AlejBanca - visceral, fearless stories of young Venezuelans - comes out with @RestlessBooks in August restlessbooks.org/bookstore/from…

We're thrilled for this beautiful book with quite possibly the best cover of the decade. Congrats Patrícia Melo and @sophietimes !!

@awpwriter Thank you for the shout-out, @awpwriter ! We are very much looking forward to our summer manuscript reading! ☀️

The @RestlessBooks Prize for New Immigrant Writing offers $10,000 and publication of a debut work of fiction by a first-generation immigrant! The deadline is May 31. AWP members can learn more on our Opportunities page. awpwriter.org/contests/award…

@bookanista Thank you @bookanista !!

"He didn’t understand why he couldn’t, even for a moment, hate the book he held between his hands." An existential crisis for the new guy at the Censorship Authority. Extract from Bothayna Al-Essa's fantastical satire #TheBookCensorsLibrary @RestlessBooks bookanista.com/the-new-censor

“What separates humans from nonhuman animals, Sorman suggests, is not our thumbs or our mental gymnastics, but our lack of insides, or maybe, rather, our shame about them, or their uselessness”—Ania Szremski reviews Joy Sorman’s “Tenderloin” @RestlessBooks 4columns.org/szremski-ania/…

@4_columns Thank you Ania Szremski and @4_columns for this tremendous review of Joy Sorman and @laravergnaud's TENDERLOIN! ❤️‍🔥