On 22nd November 2019, the SAND team launched SAND #20 Taboo at Prachtwerk Berlin. With photos from Kfir Harbi, achso! Media we look back at a night to remember.
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 …
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, …
We will be sharing a stand called Indiecon Island with this fantastic lineup of independent magazines from Germany. So stop by and say hi to us and our fellow magazine makers. Jake and Ashley from SAND will be there in person on Wednesday and Thursday, but copies are available all week and we have special dispensation from the book fair …
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 …
Photo: “Pool Day” by Melissa Spitz. Courtesy of the artist In SAND’s newest issue, a prize-winning photographer’s mother needs a note: “To Do: ¡Be Fucking Happy! – Reminder: You Have Nothing To Worry About!” Writers and poets take us to post-apocalyptic Finland, post-marital Macedonia, post-vegetarian Australia, and post-mortem Oregon. And all the while, there is a …
9 March 2018 Stadtsprachen Magazin and SANDPresent a Reading withElnathan John and Kinga Tóth What languages does Berlin write in? The PARATAXE event series showcases Berlin authors who write in everything but German. In the March 2018 edition, Martin Jankowski introduced readings by the Nigerian novelist and satirist Elnathan John and Hungarian sound poet and illustrator Kinga Tóth. Date: Friday, 9 …
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Poetry → Crista Siglin
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