News & Features
SAND Issue #20 Launch, Prachtwerk – 22nd November 2019
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.
Taboo: Inside SAND #20 – Contributors On The Controversial Books That Have Influenced Them
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 Of The Chicago Poetry Center
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…
SAND Team Recommends: Our Nonfiction Picks
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…
Profiles in Transnational Publishing: The Skirt Chronicles
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…
Interview with Poet Uma Menon
Uma Menon and I sat down in front of our respective devices for a little chat about writing, age and activism.
Contributors On Their Favourite Work In Translation
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…
Write Place, Write Time: Paul Scraton
In conversation with the British writer Paul Scraton where he talks Brexit, where he talks place, history, and writing about them both, followed by his original short story “Trans Europa Express.”
Out Of Place: Launching SAND #19
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