Past Events

In March 2020, Two Lines Press will launch a new book series dedicated to capturing vanguard works of translated literature—curated around a particular theme, region, language, historical moment, or style—in vibrant, collectible editions.

We’re calling it Calico. 

Join us for a Calico celebration at Churchill’s The Office!

If you’re getting into translation—whether as a reader, writer, editor, or publisher—this panel will offer suggestions about where to start.

Hey y’all! Two Lines Press is headed to San Antonio for AWP 2020. Here’s where you can find us:

Join us after work to raise a glass to Two Lines latest from Kim Sagwa, b, Book, and Me, translated by Sunhee Jeong.

Philadelphia poet laureate Raquel Salas Rivera and writer and translator Carina del Valle Schorske discuss Latinx poetics and what it means to be a Puerto Rican poet and translator after Hurricane María and the Puerto Rico protests.

Mexican writer Jorge Comensal and translator Charlotte Whittle discuss The Mutations with Julia Sanches.

Join Two Lines Press and readers of all ages for the largest celebration of books and writing in the Pacific Northwest.

For the 4th year in a row we’re sponsoring an entire weekend of international events at the 2019 Litquake literary festival in San Francisco!

Center Founder and translator Olivia Sears moderates a conversation about translation with three leading Bay Area translators.

Five members of Çedilla & Co., a collective of literary translators representing a wide range of writers, languages, and presses, join us to talk about the future of translation and share a little about their current projects.

Join us for our third annual Day of Translation co-presented with the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center. All panels and events will take place on the George Mason University campus in Fairfax, Virginia.

Join Two Lines Press at the Brooklyn Book Festival!

Italian author, journalist, researcher, and activist, Igiaba Scego, talks about her novel Beyond Babylon, translated by Aaron Robertson, at the Brooklyn Book Festival.

Celebrate 25 years of Two Lines and the latest issue with us!

Two Lines Press travels to Los Angeles to participate in LITLIT, the first annual Little Literary Fair, co-hosted with Hauser & Wirth Publishers, in partnership with the LARB/USC Publishing Workshop.

Translators Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton present Kim Sagwa’s English debut Mina at Powell’s Books in Portland.

Minna Zallman Proctor, author of Landslide and editor of The Literary Review, discusses her translation of Natalia Ginzburg’s Happiness, as Such with writer and critic Ismail Muhammad.

Join Two Lines Press at the third annual Press Fest, an indie book fair hosted by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP).

Bright author Duanwad Pimwana and translator Mui Poopoksakul join Rene Denfeld and Hanne Ørstavik at the Bay Area Book Festival.