SANDRA ALLAND
Curriculum Vitae
sandraATblissfultimes.ca
Feature Readings & Performances (Selected)
Edinburgh: The Wailing Banshee, Noisy Nights (Traverse Theatre), The Eruption of Kilauea & Other Treasures (Screen Bandita), Edinburgh Feminist Society, Ladyfest Edinburgh, Cocoon Counter Culture Festival (GRV), Edinburgh Fringe 2009, The West Port Book Festival 2008, Roxy Arthouse/The Bowery, Poetry at the..., Muse-ic (Bongo Club), VoxBox, Itsy Kabarett (Voodoo Rooms), The Golden Hour, Who's Your Dandy?, Club Welto (The Village), Out of the Bedroom (Canon's Gait), IDAHO (GRV), Stories of the Soul (St. Augustine United Church), Queer Mutiny, Forest Café, Feminist Freeschool, Elvis Shakespeare, Cachín Cachán Cachunga!
Glasgow: Words Per Minute, The Arches, Stereo, Aye Write! Festival 2009, Manifesto Politikal Kabaret (Tron Theatre), street level Gallery (Tower of Babble), The Hidden Cafe
London: Express Excess, Farrago Poetry, Bar Wotever, GFest (Cochrane Theatre), Museum of London, Soho Theatre, The G-Lounge, Push Play Track 1, Push Play Track 2
Oxford: Oxford Playhouse/Burton Taylor Studio (Chroma)
Skipton: Moor Music Festival 2009
New York: Pink Pony, Frequency
Rowe, Massachusetts: Rowe Centre (Narco News)
Hamilton, Bermuda: Flow Sundays
Toronto: Lab Cab Festival, Pivot, Word on the Street, Scream Literary Festival, Harbourfront Centre, Mayworks Festival, Test Reading Series, The Art Bar, I.V. Lounge Reading Series, Dub Poets Collective, Strong Words, Live Poets (Ryerson University), Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, Get Your Lit Out, Pontiac Quarterly, Toronto WordStage, Kat Biscuits, Lexiconjury, Hysteria: A Festival of Women, Cheap Queers, The Idler Pub Reading Series, Syntactic Sundays
Manitoulin Island: M.I. Libraries Reading Festival
Hamilton: Lit Live
Ottawa: International Writer's Festival
Guelph: The Hillside Festival, UofG Queer Identities Week
St Catharines: Grey Borders
Orillia: The Mariposa Festival
Kingston: Kingston Writers' Festival
Montreal: Café Esperanza
Halifax: Venus Envy
Mahone Bay: The Biscuit Eater
Banff: The Banff CentreProduced Plays
Body Geometry: A Good Night Out (script and performance commissioned by the Theatre Centre, 2002, Toronto)
Seeing Each Other (written and performed with Heather Lash, invited to the New York International Fringe 2002)
The Man (Waterspout Productions Bermuda 1999, Toronto Fringe Festival 2000)Multi-Media Performances and Installations
We Apologise For Any Inconvenience (with Y. Josephine and Zorras, various UK performances 2008-2009)
Found in Translation (with Y. Josephine and Zorras, Oxford Theatre/Chroma, 2009)
Other Me (with Alejandra Perez-Gomez, Scream Festival 2005, Toronto)
Poetry Is Not a Luxury (with Anna Camilleri and Karen Augustine, Mayworks Festival 2005, Toronto)
Strange Attractors (with Michelle Ramsay and M. Somerville, Hysteria Festival 2004, Toronto)
What Do You Play With? (concept, with Allison Cummings, Pteros Gallery, 2002, Toronto)
Creed by Corrina Hodgson (Rhubarb! Festival 1998, Toronto)
and he lost his head (Bald Ego, 1997, Toronto)
...and I kept on moving (with Goldy Notay, commissioned by University of Western Ontario, 1997)Film, TV, & Video (Features & Performances)
The Heart of a Poet (feature pilot, Book Television/Bravo, Toronto), Sex TV (City TV, Karen Murray, Toronto), Bermuda Artsweek, Canadian Race Relations Foundation (commissioned to write/perform national commercial)Published Poetry – Books
Blissful Times (BookThug) – March 2007 – Toronto, 80 pages
Proof of a Tongue (McGilligan Books) – October 2004 – Toronto, 104 pagesPublished Fiction – Chapbooks/Pamphlets
Here's To Wang – (Forest Publications) – April 2009, Edinburgh, 16 pagesPublished Poetry – Chapbooks/Pamphlets (Selected)
The Mathematics of Love (13th Tiger Press) – February 2000, Toronto, 15 pages
Partings (Stumblin’ Tongues) – June 1997, Toronto, 25 pagesPublished Fiction – Anthologies
Can'tLit: Fearless Fiction From Broken Pencil Magazine (Editor: Richard Rosenbaum, ECW Press) – Fall 2009 – Toronto, 2 pages, “Things I Don't Remember”Published Poetry - Anthologies (Selected)
Rogue Stimulus: The Stephen Harper Holiday Anthology for a Prorogued Parliament (Mansfield Press) – Spring 2010 – Toronto, 1 page, “Desperate Times”
Poem, Home (Paper Kite Press) – Fall 2009 – Kingston, Pennsylvania, 2 pages, “SASE”, “Lost While Translating”
The Prodigal Instant Anthology (Small Press Book Fair) – Spring 2007 – Toronto, 1 page, “Taking Leave”
Peter O’Toole (Editor: Stuart Ross, Proper Tales Press) – Spring 2007 – Toronto, 1 page, “I Tried to Act Casual But Like Most Things It Failed,” “Project Description,” “This Shouting, Whistling Lump”
Strong Words (indiepolitik) – Spring 2007 – Toronto, 2 pages, "Nuance," "Act of Nature," "The Harvest is the Seals"
Cuatro Postigos – Spring 2007 – Merida, Mexico, 40 pages
radiant danse uv being: A Poetic Portrait of bill bissett (Editors: A. Rox & Jeff Pew, Nightwood/ blewointment) – Spring 2006 – Vancouver, 1 page, “Nearest Star”
Red Light: Superheroes, Saints, and Sluts (Editor: Anna Camilleri, Arsenal Pulp Press) – Fall 2005 – Vancouver, 1 page, “Lipstick Boys”
Desire, Doom, and Vice (Editor: Nathaniel G Moore, Wingate Press) – May 2005 – Stratford ON, 3 pages, “Border”, “Scrabble for Couples”, “At the Cultural Exchange Office”
My Lump in the Bed: Love Poems for George W. Bush (Dwarf Puppets on Parade) – May 2004 – Toronto, 1 page, "Scrabble for Couples"
The Common Sky: Canadian Writers Against the War (Three Squares Press) – May 2003 – Toronto, 1 page, “Up”
Resist! (Fernwood Publishing) – Fall 2001 – Black Point NS, 1 page, “A Kiss for the Riot Cop”
Fruit uv da loom (Flow Sundays) –1999 – Bermuda, 2 pages, “Pure Ivory”, “Homecoming”Published Theatre – Anthologies
Outspoken: A Canadian Collection of Lesbian Scenes and Monologues (Editor: Susan G. Cole, Playwrights Canada Press) – Fall 2009 – Toronto, 4 pages, “Strange Attractors”Published Essays – Anthologies
The State of the Arts (Coach House Books) – November 2006 – Toronto, 10 pages, “Was this book shade-grown? Towards fair-trade Toronto lit”
Bafterc – February 2006 – 3 pages, “Some Thoughts on Poetic Translation”Published Fiction – Magazines and Journals
Chroma Journal – Summer 2010 – London, 3 pages, “Inhale”
Broken Pencil – Fall 2007 – Toronto, 2 pages, “Things I Don't Remember”
This Magazine – September 2007 – Toronto, 1 page, “I Know It's Serious”
The Fence – Summer 2007 – Toronto, 1 page, “This Thing”
dig. – May 2007 – Toronto, 2 pages, “Tomorrow Is, After All”
Draft – January 2006 – Toronto, 3 pages, “Unfortunately, a Vampire” (excerpt)
Kiss Machine – 2001, Issue 4 – Toronto, 1 page, “Visitation”Published Poetry - Magazines & Journals (Selected)
London:
Chroma Journal – Winter 2008 – “Ambilingual”, 1 page (3rd-place in international literary competition)
Glasgow:
Tower of Babble – Fall 2007 – “The Terrifying Nature of Intimacy”, 1 page
Spain:
Alucema Review – Spring 2006 – “Don’t Trust the Postcards”, 1 page
Eldigoras – Spring 2004 – “Ir por aire/Up For Air”, 1 page
Alucema Review – Summer 2004 – “Ir por aire/Up For Air”, 1 page
Toronto:
Open Letter – Winter 2009 – “Oscillation and Equilibrium”, 5 pages
Kiss Machine – Fall 2007 – “Goodbye 1”, 1 page
twaddle – March 2007 – “The Walk”, “Instability in a Gay Theatre and Feminine Debut”, 2 pages
dig.– June 2006 – “While at War”, “During an Election”, 2 pages
Misunderstandings – March 2006 – “Poem”, 1 page
bafterc – February 2006 – “Fistful Rhymes”, “Delightful Could Be Justice”, 1 page
fhole – January 2006 – “Alphabetical Translation”, “Ruined Fantasy Translation”, “Translation After Going Out”, “Halifax Pier Translation”, 2 pages
Draft – January 2006 – “Unfortunately, a Vampire”, “Translation After Going Out”, 4 pages
Literary Review of Canada – Winter 2004 – “Reasons to Stay #2”, 1 page
Shameless – September 2004 – “Heavy”, 1 page
This Magazine – March 2004 – “It Could Have Been Mad Chicken”, “UN Translator”, 1 page
Taddle Creek – Winter 2001 – “SASE”, 1 page
unherd – Fall/Winter 2001 - “Universal Larynx”, “Paris, Texas”, 3 pages
Who Torched Rancho Diablo? – May 2000 - “There”, “Lymphatic”, 1 page
dig. – Spring 2000 - “Naked and Clairvoyant”, “Hirsute”, 2 pages
Writing Space – Spring 2000 - “Manicure”, 1 page
The Hinterland – Spring 2000 –“Love: 12”, “Division”, 1 page
Fireweed – Issue 59, Winter 1998 – “Stutter”, 1 page
Canadian Woman Studies – Summer/Fall 1998 – “The Rise of the Progressive Conservatives”, 1 page
ink – Fall 1998 – “The Rise of the Progressive Conservatives”, “Ovid Says”, 2 pages
The Lazy Writer (Write!) – Spring 1998 - “Load”, 1 page
Sault Ste Marie:
Rampike – Spring 2006 – “Excerpts from Blissful Times”, 2 pages
Windsor:
Black Cat 115 – 1997 – “1995-1997 iv”, 1 page
Montréal:
Tessera – Volume 23, Winter 2001 – “Feminist Fatale”, “Awaken the Mother”, 2 pages
Vancouver:
Prism International – Winter 1999 – “Ma Naissance (My Birth)”, 2 pages
Winnipeg:
Zygote – Summer/Fall 1998 - “Lineage”, 1 page
St. Paul, Minnesota.:
Unarmed Poetry Journal #8, #10 – Spring 2001 - “Unarmed”, “Room 403B”, 2 pages
Portland, Maine:
Café Review (The Canadian Issue) – Spring 2000 - “Love: 11”, “Love: 12”, 2 pages
Venice, California:
make/shift – Spring 2008 – “Argh”, “Weapons of Minor Destruction”, 1 page
San Francisco, California:
Anything That Moves – Summer 1999 - “The Mathematics of Love”, 1 page
Mérida, México:
Navegaciones zur – Spring 2003 – “Razones para permanacer #2”, 1 pagePublished Poetry – Internet (Selected)
Drunken Boat, drunkenboat.com – Winter 2008 – “Blissful Times”, “Watching You Move”, “Rain Dialogue ”, “Bfillssu Eimst”, “After Going Out2”, “Looking Back”, “After the Phone Call”, 6 pages
Lemon Hound, lemonhound.blogspot.com, Nov. 7 & 20, 2007: “The Terrifying Nature of Intimacy”, “Blissful Are Out of Joint”, “Rain Dialogue 3”, “While At War”, 2 pages
Ars poetica, logolalia.com/arspoetica/archives/cat_alland_sandra.html, “Lost While Translating”, “SASE”, 2 pages
Eldigoras, eldigoras.com/eom03/2004/2/aire28jlr01.htm, “Up for Air/Ir por aire”, 1 page
Poets Against War, poetsagainstwar.ca, "After Going Out," 1 page
The Hinterland, thehinterland.iwarp.com/alland.htm “Division”, “Love:12”, 1 page
Taddle Creek, taddlecreekmag.com/contributors.shtm “SASE”, 1 pageTexts Made Into Film
“Ten Texts and Two Melodramas”, Don Gill, Banff AB, 2003Published Articles (Selected)
Trespass (London): "Fake Radicalism and the Slippery Right", July 2010, 4 pages
Xtra! (Toronto): 40+ articles, interviews and book reviews, December 2005-present, including Sarah Waters, Colm Tóibín, Staceyann Chin, Derek McCormack, d'bi.young.anitafrika, Anna Camilleri, trey anthony, Ivan E Coyote
Broken Pencil: Steph Rogerson: The Artist HelpLine, Winter 2006, 1 page
rabble.ca: "Blockage Continues as Reserve Suffers", October 2003, 1 page
NOW Magazine: Newsfront: Native Rights (“Log-Jammed”, August 2003), Naked City (“Sexing the Enemy”, July 2003), 1 page eachSCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS:
-Chroma Literary Journal (London) – 3rd Prize Poetry Contest 2008 (judge Betsy Warland)-Broken Pencil “Zine of the Month” May 2008 (Some Poems By People I Like)
-Writer’s Reserve (fiction) 2007-08 (Ontario Arts Council/Broken Pencil/Insomniac)
-Writer’s Reserve (fiction) 2006-07 (Ontario Arts Council/Kiss Machine/Coach House/ Cormorant/Sumach/Mercury)
-Grants to Writers - Level Two 2004 (Toronto Arts Council, poetry manuscript)
-Writer's Reserve (poetry) 2004 (Ontario Arts Council/McGilligan Books)
-Al Giordano’s Narco News Scholarship – Massachusetts 2003
-Canada Council Travel Grant 2003
-Banff Centre/Mexico Literature/Photography residency and scholarship (2002-2003)
-Grants to Writers - Level One 2002 (Toronto Arts Council, poetry manuscript)
-Broken Pencil “Zine of the Month” Spring 2001 (The Mathematics of Love)
-Writer’s Reserve (poetry) 2000 (Ontario Arts Council/Women’s Press)
-Grants to Writers - Level One 1999 (Toronto Arts Council, poetry CD)
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