Sharni Wilson シャーニ・ウィルソン

Writer, Japanese-to-English translator. 📚One to Many and other experiments (ATB I te Kokoru, 2024); Fumio Takano's Swan Knight @LunaPressGlobal 2024. 日英翻訳者、作家。

[Sharni Wilson シャーニ・ウィルソン @sharniw]

Very honoured my book made the shortlist for the 2026 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing (fiction category). Find it really hard to believe my paper baby is among such incredible books! Huge thanks to ATB ¦ ITK & everyone who supported me #amwriting

[Sharni Wilson シャーニ・ウィルソン @sharniw]

Hot off the press in the latest ANMLY, a new short story by emerging writer Tamaki Senomoto (瀬本 環), transl. me, with multiple translation challenges: Tsugaru dialect, child's voice, set in Neputa Festival. A privilege to work w ANMLY editor Nour Kamel Ibrahim #xl8 @Read_WIT

[ANMLY :: Anomaly :: Anomalous Press @ANMLY_LIT]

"She’s twenty-something, and she said, ‘Don’t you dare call me auntie,’ so I call her Junko. She took me to Disneyland and the Tokyo Skytree. She used to have a boyfriend, and he lived with her..."

—Sharni Wilson translates Tamaki Senomoto

https://t.co/AXjaCbB6je

[sarah clark (they) @petitobjetb]

"There was a man playing a Tsugaru shamisen and I’d never heard that before. It was completely different to the electric guitar Dad played when he’d been drinking: it gave me a tingle down the spine, like cracking open the door of a big old abandoned house."

[Stanford University Libraries @StanfordLibs]

We are pleased to present the shortlist for the twelfth William Saroyan International Prize for Writing (Saroyan Prize)!

https://t.co/VBFARaIeWV

[Sharni Wilson シャーニ・ウィルソン @sharniw]

Happy to have a micropoem, 'Mother', in the latest lovely issue of Password: A Journal of Very Short Poetry, out today! Feel surrounded by gorgeous words https://t.co/TLg0w7dbeC #amwriting #micropoetry #haiku

[Sharni Wilson シャーニ・ウィルソン @sharniw]

Spotted my book in @unitybooksauckland in some really good company 😍 So happy I made it on this shelf! Sometimes I love being a W...

#startingfromthebottom #writerlife #nzfiction #damienwilkins

[Sharni Wilson シャーニ・ウィルソン @sharniw]

That's a wrap for 2025, bring on 2026! 10/10

[Sharni Wilson シャーニ・ウィルソン @sharniw]

Happy New Year of the Horse! This is my end-of-year publishing roundup for 2025. I branched out and tried some completely new things, including collaborations with friends #2025roundup #writingroundup #xl8 1/10

[Sharni Wilson シャーニ・ウィルソン @sharniw]

Forthcoming in 2026, a short story collaboration (the first I’ve done), a short story translation in a German lit mag, and I'm currently translating another book on yokai art 9/10

[Sharni Wilson シャーニ・ウィルソン @sharniw]

I've #justsponsored Raychel Aldred, who's fundraising for Greenpeace on @JustGiving. Donate now https://t.co/Z0wWTgAMWN

[Sharni Wilson シャーニ・ウィルソン @sharniw]

I just backed Unauthorised Absence 🎥🚸 Parents & Schools in a SEND Crisis on @Kickstarter https://t.co/acC8DKgoPa

[Sharni Wilson シャーニ・ウィルソン @sharniw]

@writesfromla https://t.co/poySLjffPc

[Sharni Wilson シャーニ・ウィルソン @sharniw]

V happy (also v surprised) to be on list with these writers, Renee Liang, Michael Botur, Shelley Burne-Field, Tim Saunders, Lee Hana, Cristin Leach, Jessica le Bas, Lorraine Carmody, Kirstie McKinnon! (KM Sparkling Prose shortlist, winners announced next month) #amwriting