Image: “Hair Vigilante” by Vicky Charles, 2018. We’ll be launching our new issue, SAND #19, on 24th May. Come and celebrate with us! From Istanbul to Greenland, Nigeria, and the Caribbean, the prose, poetry, and art of SAND #19 resound with dissonance, disconnection, and things not quite where they should be… Join us at …
Who, if not contemporary writers, are better qualified to reflect on the absurd, the utopian and the dystopian implications of Brexit? Who better to riff on the intentionally and unintentionally amusing, the realer than real and the weirdly surreal? In the run-up to midnight, when Britain was set to officially leave the EU, join us at …
March 2019 SIX FEET UNDER POETRY: an immersive theatre experience feat. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 6 March 2019, Friedhof II der Sophiengemeinde, Bergstr. 29, Berlin 10115 (U8 Rosenthaler Platz or S Nordbahnhof) SAND presented a unique immersive literary event, curated by Jos Porath and Corinna Duemler, within the walls of a historic Protestant cemetery, Friedhof II der Sophiengemeinde …
New SAND Art Editor Ruhi P. Amin joined the team with an exciting new vision and identity for the artistic direction of the journal. As a British-Indian artist, chef, and writer (in that order), Ruhi was born in London, spent four years in Paris studying Fine Arts, and has performed and had her work exhibited …
2018 is coming to close and we here at SAND were in a reflective mood collecting all the great books, short stories, poems, and essays (published by others) we read this year. The result of which is a reading list to help you through the holiday season or as last-minute gift idea. Ben Fergusson’s The …
Main image designed by Bárbara Fonseca incorporating the issue cover photograph of Elina Bergmark Wiberg’s ‘Still Life with Grapes’, 2017, mixed media including silicone, soap and legumes, dimensions variable. Courtesy: the artist. Who are our people? What came before us? How far back can we go? Our 18th issue features work from Brazil, the Philippines, …
Plenty of comparisons have been made between Berlin and New York, especially their “equivalent” neighborhoods. Because this upcoming week-long festival in Berlin of the two cities’ literary intersections (8-15 July) shares a name with an online slang dictionary of questionable reference value, I thought I’d find out what the internet had to say about both metropolises. …
If you don’t live where you were born, who are you? How do you identify as you move to other places and make a new home in the world? On 9 June, ‘Who am I? Stories of Migrations’ focused on migration as part of the Long Night of the Sciences, including a reading by novelist, playwright, and translator Kate McNaughton, who …
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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