SAND 23 Virtual Launch

In November 2021, we celebrated the launch of SAND 23 with our fabulous creative community here in Berlin. Now, it's time to celebrate the issue once again with our friends, readers, and contributors from all over the world!

Join us on Sunday, 13th February from anywhere in the world to celebrate the publication of SAND 23 with performances from a selection of the issue's international contributors. This virtual event will feature poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and art contributors from SAND 23, as well as some surprise interactive elements and the chance to hear from some of the editors behind SAND.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, SAND 23 explores "coping" in all its many forms. As we now know all to well, coping isn't about solving the big, long-term problem. It's about what happens in between: self-care, self-indulgence, self-distraction. Making do. Making art. Telling the story.

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Cover image: Larissa Fantini, “Para não dizer que não esculpi as flores I" (detail), 2021 - as seen on the cover of SAND 23.

This event is FREE and open to all, though donations are always appreciated to support our indie publishing project! Ticketholders will be sent a link to stream the virtual launch prior to the event.

LINEUP:

Miriam McEwen writes about disability and bodily autonomy. She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is an associate editor at the South Carolina Review and a co-editor for The Swamp. Miriam’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Under the Gum Tree, Madcap Review, and South Carolina Review, among others. She lives in the foothills of South Carolina.

Keegan Lawler is a writer currently living in Washington State with his partner, their two basset hounds, and their cat. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming from the Offing, Homology Lit, SAND, the Los Angeles Review, and the Home is Where You Queer Your Heart anthology from Foglifter Press.

Sihle Ntuli is poet and classicist from Durban. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Classical Civilisations and has lectured previously at the University of the Free State. He is the author of Rumblin (uHlanga 2020) and has had work published in notable publications such as Lolwe & The Rumpus. His poetry was shortlisted for the DALRO Poetry Prize in 2017. Follow him on Instagram and Twitter.

Larissa Barddal Fantini is an artist, writer and teacher. She has exhibited her work in Brazil, France, Germany, and Sweden. Her work encompasses politics, popular culture, themes of the domestic, and intimacy, amongst others. She is the co-creator of 75m2, an independent art platform. Born in Curitiba, Brazil, Larissa has lived throughout Brazil, Indonesia, China, Uruguay, and France. She graduated in May 2017 from Paris College of Art with a bachelor of fine arts. Follow her on Instagram.

Ruth Martin has been translating fiction and nonfiction since 2010, by authors ranging from Joseph Roth and Hannah Arendt to Nino Haratischwili and Volker Weidermann. Ruth has taught translation to undergraduates at Birkbeck and the University of Kent, and was a tutor at the 2021 Bristol Translates summer school. She is also a former co-chair of the Society of Authors Translators Association. Follow her on Twitter. 

Maeve McKenna lives in rural Sligo, Ireland. Her poetry has been placed in several international poetry competitions since 2018. Work published can be found in Mslexia, Orbis, Channel Magazine, Fly on the Wall, The Haibun Journal, Bloody Amazing Anthology, Culture Matters A Working Class Anthology Of Prose Writing, among others. Her poems have appeared widely online. Maeve was a finalist in the Eavan Boland Mentorship Award and a recipient of a John Hewitt Summer School Bursary, both in 2021. Maeve’s debut chapbook, A Dedication to Drowning, will be released on 18 February 2022.

William Lessard has writing that has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Best American Experimental Writing, FENCE, and the Southwest Review. He is Poetry & Hybrids editor at Heavy Feather Review.