SAND 22 Virtual Launch Event
We launched SAND 22 on 28 February 2021 with a live-streamed evening of fiction, poetry, art, translations, and discussions on our YouTube channel.
We launched SAND 22 on 28 February 2021 with a live-streamed evening of fiction, poetry, art, translations, and discussions on our YouTube channel.
Because we tend to publish emerging voices, our contributors’ most impressive accomplishments often come after their appearance in SAND. We are always delighted to celebrate them. Below is a brief, incomplete list of some of the accolades collected by past SAND contributors (before or after appearing in our pages). We know there will be many …
On 11 October 2020, between the coronavirus lockdowns, we held a writing and reading event at Hopscotch Reading Room in collaboration with The Poetry Project. We’ve been navigating a time in which communication has been largely limited to online interactions, all while we have a growing and pressing need to remain connected, and find new …
“Simply by publishing in our native English, we find ourselves heir to a dark legacy of British and US cultural imperialism. Resisting that legacy, we try to use our platform – and our language’s huge audience – to amplify voices that publishers and curators have often erased or marginalized.”
In a video feature for the virtual Lyrikmarkt (poetry fair) at the 2020 poesiefestival berlin, our poetry editors Crista Siglin and Emma Lawson discussed the poetry of SAND 21 during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, exploring the subjectivity of time and how our daily experience changes our readings of poems.
From 29 to 31 May 2020, SAND held a live-streamed weekend of readings, art explorations, musical performances, panel discussions, interactive sessions and more to celebrate the publication of SAND 21 and our 10-year anniversary.
Morgan Stokes, our SAND 21 cover artist, gave a virtual studio tour and had a conversation with our art editor Ruhi Amin for our online 10th anniversary festival in May 2020. Watch the videos here.
The bios of all our contributing writers, artists, translators and illustrators included in SAND 21.