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

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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 · Apr 2

Today is the day! The Lantern and the Night Moths, my debut book of translated modern Chinese poetry and essays on translation, is out from @invisibooks.bsky.social. I'm so excited to be able to share this book with all of you. (1/? thread)

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The Lantern and the Night Moths · Invisible Publishing

Chinese Canadian poet-translator Yilin Wang has selected and translated poems by five of China’s most innovative modern and contemporary poets: Fei Ming, Qiu Jin, Zhang Qiaohui, Xiao Xi, and Dai Wangs...

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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 11h

Awww thank you 💜

Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 11h

Sometimes you really need extreme public pressure to hold institutions accountable 😢 It is ridiculous but it is true

Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 11h

How about taking on the British Museum 😂

This is an appreciation post for all the real and online friends I have made through social media

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 14h

they should have just checked in academia sinica 😂

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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 14h

i think i found the rare martial arts text that everyone in the Legend of Condor Heroes was looking for...

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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 14h

我好像在台北找到了武穆遗书😂 射雕里所有武林高手都在寻求的那本

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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 1d

i hope you find a good one though!

Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 2d

i don't :/ i'm not a good person to ask for English translation recs but i don't read any of the English translations

Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 3d

happy mid-autumn festival folks! i'm about to go find some mooncakes in taipei

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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 5d

Local Authors' Book Fair at Brighouse Public Library (Richmond): October 7th, 3-7pm

I will not be at the fair in person (hoping to call in), but my friend @leataranto.bsky.social will have copies of The Lantern and the Night Moths for sale at our table
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Writers For Readers 2025

Writers for Readers is Richmond Public Library’s annual celebration of writers and readers. Local authors will be at their own booths, offering a chance for community readers to meet them in person, d...

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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 6d

Do you have any recs for someone who has never seen one before? I am going to be in Taipei for the next month

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Ninedragonspot @ninedragonspot.bsky.social · 15d

I return to Taipei next week for 2+ months and am simply overwhelmed by the number and quality of outdoor temple-fair opera offerings for the first part of October. And on the weekends there are shows in the indoor theaters. It’s bonkers!

#kuaáhì #歌仔戲 #TaiwaneseOpera

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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 6d

Ooooo taking notes

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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 6d

Oh no I think I am going to have to work on improving my skills in reading Traditional Chinese while in Taipei 😂 有些字它认得我，我不认得它

Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you! I am sure I will

Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 6d

The direct flight from Hangzhou was only 2 hours. Very smooth exit and entry. The travel gods must be on my side today 😂

Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 6d

Made it to Taiwan! First time here and very excited to do some traveling and then do my residency at the Taiwan Literature Base 💜

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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 11d

Here's the sign up link for the workshops I will be teaching for the Taiwan Literature Base during my residency

Literary Translation 101

Mandarin-English Poetry Translation Workshop

How to Submit Your Writing and Translations
for Publication: An Editor's Perspective

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國立台灣文學館

. 駐村作家讀者交流活動寫作・翻譯・出版：文學實作三部曲 Writing × Translation × Publishing: A Three-Part Literary Practice Series　　　駐村作家　王藝霖（Yilin Wang）　　　場次 1 文學翻譯入門：寫作者、譯者及出版工作者的第一堂課 Literary Translation 10...

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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 14d

The sign-up will officially open tomorrow for the 3 workshops/events that I am facilitating during my residency at the Taiwan Literature Base in Taipei. The events are related to translation and/or publishing. Watch this space for an announcement coming soon.

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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 15d

yeah for real

Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 15d

not enough

Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 15d

yikes

Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 15d

If you are reading any translated danmei from Chinese, you better be making sure that translators are not getting exploited 🫠 i see so many people look the other way though and pretend it's not happening just to keep consuming content they love

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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 15d

And honestly I think certain English publishers of Chinese literature are basically like this too... All the BS that people get away with

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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 15d

None of this is a surprise but having it laid out so clearly in English makes my blood boil

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