Sandra Alland's Upcoming Events

News & Upcoming Projects

Photo by Kate Gollock

1. Online: Sandra is back blogging! Check it out here.

2. Live: Find listings of Sandra's upcoming readings, screenings, exhibitions and performances at www.myspace.com/sandraalland or www.facebook.com/ZorrasBand (including gigs with Zorras).

3. Live: Zorras present Cachín Cachán Cachunga! 11 February in Edinburgh, and a free workshop & performance 25 February in Dumfries.

4. Online: Zorras reviewed by the editor of Diva Magazine.

5. Online: Sandra made poetry in the toilet for this special in Edinburgh/Glasgow's The Skinny (though they forgot to credit the writers, sigh)! The one with her in it is called "Over" & was written painstakingly in icing. The last two are also hers; the one on the tampon machine is called "We Could Have Been In Love If It Weren't for Your Father's Dreadful Opposition to My Shoes". Thanks to Neu! Reekie! for the fun.

6. Online: Zorras' reviewed in Xtra! (Toronto & Ottawa).

7. Online: Zorras interviewed by Parul Pandya in Toronto's Queeries Magazine.

8. Online: Stuart Ross blogs about Zorras.

9. Online: Zorras reviewed, interviewed, and featured in a video for Toronto's Black Coffee Poet.

10. Online: Zorras in the Northumberland News in Cobourg, Canada.

11. Online: Zorras interviewed by Canada's Grey Borders Reading Series (Saint Catharines).

12. In Print: Sandra has new poems in the current issues of Edinburgh's SCREE and anything anymore anywhere, and a new story in Glasgow's Gutter.

13. Online: Zorras' queer and trans cabaret, Cachín Cachán Cachunga! featured in The Skinny (Glasgow/Edinburgh).

14. Online: Zorras reviewed in Canadian Review of Literature in Performance.

15. Online: Sandra (& a whole lot of other Canadian poets) interviewed by wicked high school students at The Great Canadian Writers Craft.

16. In Print/Online: Sandra reviews Love Cake by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha for Xtra!

17. In Print/Online: Sandra reviews Feminism For Real, edited by Jessica Yee, for Xtra!

18. In Print/Online: Sandra reviews The Revolution Starts at Home, edited by Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, for Xtra!

19. Online: For an excerpt from John C. Stout's essay about Sandra's book, Blissful Times, (and Samuel Beckett) published in Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory, click here.

20. News! Zorras have tshirts, designed by the amazing Ed Ross! Only 12 quid!! Go here to buy one! Go here to buy Zorras' CD, chapbooks & tshirts, or any of Sandra's books.

"There is difference and there is power.
And who holds the power decides the
meaning of the difference."
June Jordan