SAND #20 is full of taboos and transgressions, secrets and profanities, all of which would likely be censored in many times and places. Mothers walk around both inspiringly and obscenely naked, a 16th-century fire consumes gay men and furniture as equally disposable, pro-democracy poets embrace profanity as resistance, shameful body parts become the center of eroticism, lovers battle polar bears alongside the confines of monogamy, and mothers hide their real monsters in the euphemism of bedtime stories, all while the young women in Sookoon Ang’s cover art refuse to be the types of bodies that are put on magazine covers.
Cover “Exorcise Me,” Sookoon Ang, 2013
Design by Dimitris Gkikas
Ahead of the issue’s launch, we asked a selection of SAND #20 contributors from around the world about the controversial literary works that have influenced their writing and art.
An interview with Elizabeth Metzger Sampson, Executive Director of the Chicago Poetry Center which runs two school poetry programs and curates a traveling reading series…
Taking our lead from our out-going Nonfiction Editor Susanna Forrest, our resident “greedy reader”, the SAND team have got together to collect some of our…
In December, at the 2018 Stack Awards in London, we met Haydée Touitou, who had just accepted a handsome wooden trophy for her work with…
Uma Menon and I sat down in front of our respective devices for a little chat about writing, age and activism.
In the run-up to the publication of SAND #19, we quizzed our contributors on their favourite pieces of writing originally published in a language other…
Collaborations & press → Jake Schneider
General inquires → Simone O’Donovan
Fiction → Ashley Moore
Nonfiction → Dasom Yang
Poetry → Crista Siglin
Visual Art → Ruhi Amin
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