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SAND Journal
SAND is a literary journal based in Berlin, Germany featuring short fiction, poetry, translations, and visual art. It publishes two issues a year, typically in May and November.

History and Profile
SAND was founded in 2009 by Becky Crook, an American writer and translator, and has since been directed by Christina Wegener (2012-15), Lyz Pfister (2015-16), and the current editor in chief, Jake Schneider (since 2017). Each edition from Issue 16 onward has highlighted an emergent theme running through the work (e.g. containers, mottos, or ancestry); this theme emerges organically from the journal’s unsolicited submissions and is not announced to submitters in advance.

SAND focuses on publishing work by women, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and people from marginalized locations as well as literature in translation. The journal treats the visual art as an editorial section parallel to the poetry, fiction, and nonfiction sections; in 2018, it added a consecutive 16-page block of art at the center of the journal and announced a new interest in performative and sculptural work. There has also been an emphasis on flash fiction and prose poetry: micro-prose from the journal was anthologized in three editions of Best Small Fiction, and in 2015 the journal held a flash fiction and nonfiction competition entitled Quick.SAND.

Structure
Operated independently without ongoing public subsidies, major benefactors, or institutional affiliations, the journal is incorporated as a not-for-profit eingetragener Verein, with a team of fifteen to twenty Berlin-based members, all working in a voluntary capacity.

Events & Collaborations
As well as publishing print issues, SAND Journal also organizes and participates in frequent events, both in Berlin and worldwide, alone and in collaboration with other organizations.

SAND holds a launch party for each new issue in Berlin, featuring readings and artist talks by contributors. These events partly serve as fundraisers, with the admissions fees contributing towards the journal’s printing costs.

List of Events & Collaborations

 * After Becky Crook founded the journal in late 2009, the first issue of SAND was released in May 2010 with a reading at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI) Berlin.
 * In 2013, SAND held a “Found in Translation” weekend retreat for poetry and prose translators under 30, funded by a European Union Youth In Action grant from the European Commission. The winners of the associated translation contest were published in Issue 7.
 * Issue 9 in 2014 featured a collaboration with Visual Verse, where SAND published a group of works at the intersection between poetry and visual art.
 * In 2016, SAND co-ran a workshop and pop-up exhibition as part of the Stadtsprachen festival celebrating Berlin writing in languages other than German.
 * SAND editor-in-chief Jake Schneider and poetry editor Greg Nissan ran a workshop on “Translating the Untranslatable” at A-Festival 2017 of poetry and translation in Vietnam, hosted by AJAR Press.
 * In 2018 SAND participated in the International Literature Award by holding a panel discussion with the shortlisted essayist Eliot Weinberger, his German translator, and local authors in the Haus de Kulturen der Welt.

Notable Contributors

 * Friederike Mayröcker
 * Dag Solstad
 * Momtaza Mehri
 * Wladamir Kaminer
 * Donna Stonecipher
 * Lidija Dimkovska
 * Osip Mandelstam