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Digital Marketing & Communications Manager Full-time Brooklyn, NY The digital marketing and communications manager will drive audience and engagement growth across Words Without Borders’ online platforms. The ideal candidate will be an organized self-starter ready to think creatively

Shanahan: ‘A Hard-Headed Refusal To Give In’ While translator and co-guest editor Scott Shanahan at Words Without Borders‘ magazine this month works well in his introductory essay to stress that Galician is neither a dialect nor a transcription of Spanish or Portuguese, the Galician region in northwestern Spain is known this year for its decree that the coronavirus COVID-19 vaccine is compulsory for all 2.7 million inhabitants. Fines for non-compliance are reported to range from €1,000...

Women Writing War Redux: Ukraine’s Iya Kiva In their introduction to Words Without Borders’ “#Russophonia: New Writing in Russian” issue, Hilah Kohen and Josephine von Zitzewitz highlight several significant issues that “preoccupy Russian society and Russophone communities around the world. The first is the war in Eastern Ukraine.” Words Without Borders’ “Women Write War” issue of April 2016 featured the writing of two Ukrainian poets about this war, Lyudmyla Khersonska and...