Annie Rutherford
@annierutherford.bsky.social
Makes things with words. Translator, writer and cultural project leader. Particularly interested in collaborative working and creating communities. 2025 BCLT translator-in-residence. (she/they)
annietranslates.wordpress.com
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This is a lovely thing.
It's a tad down to the wire, I know, but I'm thrilled to say that I'm running the Poetry Advent Calendar again this year -- sign up by donating to @msf.ca and receive a poem every day from 1 to 24 December: book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...
November 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This is a lovely thing.
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This was a lovely part of my December last year and I'm glad to see it return. Perhaps your inbox could use some poetry, too?
It's a tad down to the wire, I know, but I'm thrilled to say that I'm running the Poetry Advent Calendar again this year -- sign up by donating to @msf.ca and receive a poem every day from 1 to 24 December: book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...
November 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This was a lovely part of my December last year and I'm glad to see it return. Perhaps your inbox could use some poetry, too?
When I first came up with this idea back in 2023, I told myself that if the Poetry Advent Calendar could raise £500 for MSF, I'd be more than chuffed - this year, we've surpassed that in the first 90 minutes of the advent calendar going live! Huge thanks to everyone who's donated and shared so far ❤️
It's a tad down to the wire, I know, but I'm thrilled to say that I'm running the Poetry Advent Calendar again this year -- sign up by donating to @msf.ca and receive a poem every day from 1 to 24 December: book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...
November 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
When I first came up with this idea back in 2023, I told myself that if the Poetry Advent Calendar could raise £500 for MSF, I'd be more than chuffed - this year, we've surpassed that in the first 90 minutes of the advent calendar going live! Huge thanks to everyone who's donated and shared so far ❤️
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Time ONCE MORE for the best advent calendar of them all! Donate! Get a poem every day throughout this miserable month!
It's a tad down to the wire, I know, but I'm thrilled to say that I'm running the Poetry Advent Calendar again this year -- sign up by donating to @msf.ca and receive a poem every day from 1 to 24 December: book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...
November 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Time ONCE MORE for the best advent calendar of them all! Donate! Get a poem every day throughout this miserable month!
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Signed! Thank you for putting the effort into organising this again, Annie. It was fabulous last year, and most importantly it's for @msf.ca Poetry friends, Annie brings you the gift of poetry, please sign up👇
It's a tad down to the wire, I know, but I'm thrilled to say that I'm running the Poetry Advent Calendar again this year -- sign up by donating to @msf.ca and receive a poem every day from 1 to 24 December: book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Signed! Thank you for putting the effort into organising this again, Annie. It was fabulous last year, and most importantly it's for @msf.ca Poetry friends, Annie brings you the gift of poetry, please sign up👇
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Perhaps, like me, you already have an extraordinarily indulgent & fancy chocolate advent calendar sent by your extravagantly delightful sibling 😇
But I recommend also signing up for Annie’s poetry advent calendar to benefit MSF & their indispensable relief work. Last year’s was an utter joy.
But I recommend also signing up for Annie’s poetry advent calendar to benefit MSF & their indispensable relief work. Last year’s was an utter joy.
It's a tad down to the wire, I know, but I'm thrilled to say that I'm running the Poetry Advent Calendar again this year -- sign up by donating to @msf.ca and receive a poem every day from 1 to 24 December: book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Perhaps, like me, you already have an extraordinarily indulgent & fancy chocolate advent calendar sent by your extravagantly delightful sibling 😇
But I recommend also signing up for Annie’s poetry advent calendar to benefit MSF & their indispensable relief work. Last year’s was an utter joy.
But I recommend also signing up for Annie’s poetry advent calendar to benefit MSF & their indispensable relief work. Last year’s was an utter joy.
It's a tad down to the wire, I know, but I'm thrilled to say that I'm running the Poetry Advent Calendar again this year -- sign up by donating to @msf.ca and receive a poem every day from 1 to 24 December: book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...
November 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
It's a tad down to the wire, I know, but I'm thrilled to say that I'm running the Poetry Advent Calendar again this year -- sign up by donating to @msf.ca and receive a poem every day from 1 to 24 December: book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...
In advance of this -- if any of my fellow translators have some favourite reviews, which you think deal with translation particularly well, I'd love to see them!
✨ A week to go ✨ Join @annierutherford.bsky.social for 'Reviewing Translations: Making the Translator Visible' ONLINE on Wednesday 22 October 📚 ✨
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM
In advance of this -- if any of my fellow translators have some favourite reviews, which you think deal with translation particularly well, I'd love to see them!
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✨ A week to go ✨ Join @annierutherford.bsky.social for 'Reviewing Translations: Making the Translator Visible' ONLINE on Wednesday 22 October 📚 ✨
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
✨ A week to go ✨ Join @annierutherford.bsky.social for 'Reviewing Translations: Making the Translator Visible' ONLINE on Wednesday 22 October 📚 ✨
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
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Join our Board of Directors!
Deadline for applications: Monday 20 October at 2 pm.
Find out more and to apply on our vacancy page: buff.ly/IMUuTQP
#EdinburghCharity #BoardMembersWanted #JoinOurTeam #NonprofitLeadership #CharityRecruitment #VolunteerOpportunities #InclusiveLeadership
Deadline for applications: Monday 20 October at 2 pm.
Find out more and to apply on our vacancy page: buff.ly/IMUuTQP
#EdinburghCharity #BoardMembersWanted #JoinOurTeam #NonprofitLeadership #CharityRecruitment #VolunteerOpportunities #InclusiveLeadership
October 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Join our Board of Directors!
Deadline for applications: Monday 20 October at 2 pm.
Find out more and to apply on our vacancy page: buff.ly/IMUuTQP
#EdinburghCharity #BoardMembersWanted #JoinOurTeam #NonprofitLeadership #CharityRecruitment #VolunteerOpportunities #InclusiveLeadership
Deadline for applications: Monday 20 October at 2 pm.
Find out more and to apply on our vacancy page: buff.ly/IMUuTQP
#EdinburghCharity #BoardMembersWanted #JoinOurTeam #NonprofitLeadership #CharityRecruitment #VolunteerOpportunities #InclusiveLeadership
Oh no, what a shame.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Oh no, what a shame.
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We need this in Scotland. It’s not even wishful or fanciful thinking: it’s financially astute. Our creative industries are absolutely vital
The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow
Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent
The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow.
www.rte.ie
October 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
We need this in Scotland. It’s not even wishful or fanciful thinking: it’s financially astute. Our creative industries are absolutely vital
I'm really looking forward to this, do come along!
Join @annierutherford.bsky.social for 'Reviewing Translations: Making the Translator Visible' ONLINE on Wednesday 22 October 📚 ✨
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
October 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I'm really looking forward to this, do come along!
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What a fantastic event! @bcltuea.bsky.social @annierutherford.bsky.social @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
Join @annierutherford.bsky.social for 'Reviewing Translations: Making the Translator Visible' ONLINE on Wednesday 22 October 📚 ✨
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
What a fantastic event! @bcltuea.bsky.social @annierutherford.bsky.social @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
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Sent a digital publisher's catalogue. In it, a special anniversary edition of a beloved book. They *boast* it's a new translation. Nowhere in the copy do they mention who translated. I zoom in on jacket. Nothing. I look down at writer bio, only the original author. VALUE TRANSLATORS, PEOPLE.
September 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Sent a digital publisher's catalogue. In it, a special anniversary edition of a beloved book. They *boast* it's a new translation. Nowhere in the copy do they mention who translated. I zoom in on jacket. Nothing. I look down at writer bio, only the original author. VALUE TRANSLATORS, PEOPLE.
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Join @annierutherford.bsky.social for 'Reviewing Translations: Making the Translator Visible' ONLINE on Wednesday 22 October 📚 ✨
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Join @annierutherford.bsky.social for 'Reviewing Translations: Making the Translator Visible' ONLINE on Wednesday 22 October 📚 ✨
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
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Join @annierutherford.bsky.social for 'Reviewing Translations: Making the Translator Visible' ONLINE on Wednesday 22 October 📚 ✨
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Join @annierutherford.bsky.social for 'Reviewing Translations: Making the Translator Visible' ONLINE on Wednesday 22 October 📚 ✨
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
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Interesting conversation between @annierutherford.bsky.social and Paul Russell Garrett discussing how their #translation and translation-adjacent income breaks down, by activity, genre, etc.
www.newwriting.net/2025/09/tapa...
#xl8 #freelance #literaryTranslation #poetry #worldkidlit
www.newwriting.net/2025/09/tapa...
#xl8 #freelance #literaryTranslation #poetry #worldkidlit
Tapas Translation Careers
www.newwriting.net
September 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Interesting conversation between @annierutherford.bsky.social and Paul Russell Garrett discussing how their #translation and translation-adjacent income breaks down, by activity, genre, etc.
www.newwriting.net/2025/09/tapa...
#xl8 #freelance #literaryTranslation #poetry #worldkidlit
www.newwriting.net/2025/09/tapa...
#xl8 #freelance #literaryTranslation #poetry #worldkidlit
My brilliant friend!
🏝️ My second game, Isles & Tiles, is out now on Steam – and on sale for 15% off! If you're into hexagons, deckbuilders, or chill island vibes you should absolutely check it out.
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#indiegames #indiedev #boardgamesky
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#indiegames #indiedev #boardgamesky
August 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
My brilliant friend!
Loved this performance at the Loud Poets Showcase last month!
New Video!
Watch Here: youtu.be/2v96cKcLQTU
From Abby Oliveira, a trippy, hilarious PSA about the dangers of poitín, Northern Ireland's illegal home-brewed elixir...
Learn more about Abby's work via www.abbyoliveira.com
Jack Hinks provided musical accompaniment for this poem www.jackhinks.co.uk
Watch Here: youtu.be/2v96cKcLQTU
From Abby Oliveira, a trippy, hilarious PSA about the dangers of poitín, Northern Ireland's illegal home-brewed elixir...
Learn more about Abby's work via www.abbyoliveira.com
Jack Hinks provided musical accompaniment for this poem www.jackhinks.co.uk
July 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Loved this performance at the Loud Poets Showcase last month!
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🚨BREAKING: MPs have just voted for cuts to social security - with unwritten promises from the UK Government
This is reckless.
Disability rights aren’t optional. Poverty is a political choice. This Govt chose it tonight.
We'll keep fighting until this cruel Bill is rejected completely.
This is reckless.
Disability rights aren’t optional. Poverty is a political choice. This Govt chose it tonight.
We'll keep fighting until this cruel Bill is rejected completely.
July 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
🚨BREAKING: MPs have just voted for cuts to social security - with unwritten promises from the UK Government
This is reckless.
Disability rights aren’t optional. Poverty is a political choice. This Govt chose it tonight.
We'll keep fighting until this cruel Bill is rejected completely.
This is reckless.
Disability rights aren’t optional. Poverty is a political choice. This Govt chose it tonight.
We'll keep fighting until this cruel Bill is rejected completely.
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The *reason* Ai-generated text contains semicolons, en dashes etc. is that experienced, skilful writers use these marks to subtly convey meaning and nuance in their work. And the Ai LLMs have been trained on the stolen work of experienced, skilful writers.
June 26, 2025 at 6:49 AM
The *reason* Ai-generated text contains semicolons, en dashes etc. is that experienced, skilful writers use these marks to subtly convey meaning and nuance in their work. And the Ai LLMs have been trained on the stolen work of experienced, skilful writers.
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This. Yesterday, today and tomorrow.
My seventy-seven-year-old father
put his reading glasses on
to help my mother do the buttons
on the back of her dress…
—“George Square”, by Jackie Kay
LIFE MASK, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2005
Hear Jackie Kay read this poem on the @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social:
poetryarchive.org/poem/george-...
put his reading glasses on
to help my mother do the buttons
on the back of her dress…
—“George Square”, by Jackie Kay
LIFE MASK, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2005
Hear Jackie Kay read this poem on the @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social:
poetryarchive.org/poem/george-...
June 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
This. Yesterday, today and tomorrow.
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So proud of @catmitchell17.bsky.social and @pennyauthor.bsky.social for making a #Disability focus issue of @thebookseller.com happen after 3 years hiatus. So heartening to see such brilliant books by disabled, D/deaf, neurodivergent writers being published across genres, as in my preview. #BookSky
June 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
So proud of @catmitchell17.bsky.social and @pennyauthor.bsky.social for making a #Disability focus issue of @thebookseller.com happen after 3 years hiatus. So heartening to see such brilliant books by disabled, D/deaf, neurodivergent writers being published across genres, as in my preview. #BookSky
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⏰️Deadline this Friday
We’re on the lookout for a part-time Production Coordinator to help bring our programmes to life at GWL!
This is a unique opportunity to work at the heart of our creative & inclusive feminist space
🔅 10 hrs/week
🔅 £27533 pro rata (actual £7,867)
🔅 Fixed-term until 1 May 2026
We’re on the lookout for a part-time Production Coordinator to help bring our programmes to life at GWL!
This is a unique opportunity to work at the heart of our creative & inclusive feminist space
🔅 10 hrs/week
🔅 £27533 pro rata (actual £7,867)
🔅 Fixed-term until 1 May 2026
June 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
⏰️Deadline this Friday
We’re on the lookout for a part-time Production Coordinator to help bring our programmes to life at GWL!
This is a unique opportunity to work at the heart of our creative & inclusive feminist space
🔅 10 hrs/week
🔅 £27533 pro rata (actual £7,867)
🔅 Fixed-term until 1 May 2026
We’re on the lookout for a part-time Production Coordinator to help bring our programmes to life at GWL!
This is a unique opportunity to work at the heart of our creative & inclusive feminist space
🔅 10 hrs/week
🔅 £27533 pro rata (actual £7,867)
🔅 Fixed-term until 1 May 2026