SAND Journal

Here at SAND, this September marks the start of bookfair season – and submissions season 📚

This weekend, we'll be packing up our lovely new issue, SAND 27 (pictured), and heading to Hamburg for the annual bookfair. If you're in town, come and say hello at the SAND booth 👋🏽

Meanwhile, back here in Berlin, our editors are getting ready for your submissions! We open for submissions for SAND 28 on 10 September, and we'll be looking for poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, translations, and art.

As always, we're looking for work that pushes the boundaries of form, message, and voice in fresh and surprising ways. If you know SAND, you know we're all about work that subverts, work that takes risks. We publish both emerging and established writers, and anyone is welcome to submit, from anywhere in the world.

Read our full submissions guidelines and order your copy of SAND 27 via the links in our bio 🔗

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Just two days until we launch SAND 27 at 🚀

We're excited to gather our wonderful SAND community again and to meet new readers and contributors!

This launch is extra special, as it marks not only the publication of SAND 27, but also 15 years of SAND. As many of you know, this project is run entirely by volunteers, fuelled by the work of talented writers and artists all around the world. We're very proud and grateful to have made it this far 💙

Join us on Thursday at the launch for readings and mini-performances from this new issue's Berlin-based contributors:

· Poet with self-translated work in English & Spanish

· Poet/translator duo &

· Poet who will also read translations by

· Fiction writer .kurlyka

· Artists & who will talk about the process behind their works in SAND 27

Follow the link in our bio for the full lineup (text version) and tickets 🔗

"I crossed green seas on my knees, / sticky clubs and bars, /balconies bathed in violet blood / while the nightingale sang a couplet by Manrique."

An extract from "Aniseed Bird" – a poem forthcoming in both English and Spanish in SAND 27 – by Nicol Navas.

Join us at our SAND 27 launch on 1 August to hear Nicol reading her poetry live (follow the link in our bio) 🐦

Nicol Navas Gómez (Cúcuta, 2001) is a poet and playwright, whose work explores the complexities of urban realities and identity. Beyond her creative pursuits, Nicol’s research career focuses on counterculture and minorities with projects such as "Hearing New Voices of Venezuelan Migrant Women." Bridging academia, creativity, and social commitment, Nicol emerges as a strong voice at the intersection of literature, migration, and the city