Selected San Alland C.V.
Awards & Residencies
Creative Scotland, Open Fund for Individuals: novel R&D; 2025.
Birds of Paradise Theatre, Locked World Commission: Writing from the Groin, Glasgow, 2021-23.
Canada Council for the Arts, Digital Originals grant: Measurable, 2020.
Canada Council, Arts Across Canada grant: Anything Not Measurable Is Not Real, 2019.
Anatomy Arts, Associate Artist residency: Equivalence, Edinburgh, 2016.
Meet The Presses, bpNichol Chapbook Award: Naturally Speaking, Toronto, 2013.
Chroma Journal, contest winner: “Ambilingual”, judge Betsy Warland, London, 2008.
Broken Pencil, Zine of the Month: Some Poems By People I Like, Toronto, 2008.
Ontario Arts Council, Writer’s Reserve grant: fiction, Mercury/Insomniac/Broken Pencil, 2007.
OAC, Writer’s Reserve grant: fiction, Coach House/Cormorant/Sumach/Kiss Machine, 2006.
Toronto Arts Council, Grants To Writers Level Two: poetry, Blissful Times, 2004.
Ontario Arts Council, Writer’s Reserve grant: poetry, McGilligan Books, 2004.
Toronto Arts Council, Grants To Writers Level One: poetry CD research, 2002.
Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity and FONCA, residency: Mexico Exchange, 2002-03.
Multimedia Commissions
Poetry on a Picnic Bench
“Audience” & “Flow”, How We Roll, curator Carol Anne Judd, Cobourg, Apr. 2025.
Text etched into wheelchair-accessible picnic bench (Poetry in the Parks / POETCHRY).
Long-read / Long-watch Essay
Writing From the Groin, Locked World, Birds of Paradise, Glasgow, Nov. 2023.
Text, alt-text, captioned and audio-described videos, plain language, BSL and audio.
Zine
Sore Loser: …on queer disabled grief, Disability Arts Online, Brighton, Dec. 2021.
Online and hard copy zine, audiobook and alt-text; with Etzali Hernández.
Film-Poem
Audience, Glasgow International / STEP by Jacqueline Donachie, June 2021.
Performance with BSL from Bea Webster, captions, and audio description.
Film-Story-Play
Equivalence, Anatomy Arts / Canada Council for the Arts, Edinburgh, 2016/2020.
Theatrical performance with film and integrated AD, BSL and live captions.
Audiobook & Filmic Adaptations of Story Collection
Measurable, Digital Originals Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, 2020.
E-book with Audio & Video (co-editor and filmmaker)
Stairs and Whispers: Deaf and Disabled Poets…, Nine Arches, co-editor, Rugby, 2017.
E-book
Here’s To Wang, Forest Publications, short story collection, Edinburgh, 2009.
Printed Books
Short Stories
Anything Not Measurable Is Not Real, Proper Tales Press, 32 pages, Cobourg, 2019.
Here’s To Wang, Forest Publications, 16 pages, Edinburgh, 2009; 2nd printing 2010.
Poetry
Sore Loser: …on queer disabled grief, with Etzali Hernández, 16 pp, Glasgow, 2021.
Naturally Speaking, Espresso Books, 32 pp, Toronto, 2012.
Blissful Times, Book*hug Press, 80 pp + audio, video & photographs, Toronto, 2007.
Proof of a Tongue, McGilligan Books, 104 pp, Toronto, 2004.
Dreams of Kentucky, sandraslittlebookshop, 20 pp, Toronto, 2001.
The Mathematics of Love, 13th Tiger Press, 16 pp, Toronto, 2000.
Partings, Stumblin’ Tongues, with Andra Simons, 28 pp, Toronto, 1998.
Online Anthologies
Guest Editor
Disability Arts Online, curated collection with audio & video, Brighton, April 2020.
New Scottish Poets, Jacket2; Nuala Watt, Lila Matsumoto et al; Philadephia, 2012.
Editor
More Poems by People I Like, sandraslittlebookshop; Trish Salah et al; Edinburgh, 2010.
Poetry
Passion Project Mixtape, digital album with transcript, producer: Anusha, Ghost Poem, London, 2024.
Fit to Work: Poets Against Atos, eds Burnhope/Mayer/Sluman, Naturally Speaking excerpts, London, 2013.
Catechism: Poems for Pussy Riot, eds Burnhope/Crewe/Mayer, English PEN, Weapons of Minor Destruction + video, London, 2012.
Print Anthologies
Poetry & Essay Co-Editor (with Khairani Barokka & Daniel Sluman)
Stairs & Whispers: D/deaf & Disabled Poets Write Back, Nine Arches, 264 pp, Rugby, 2017.
Poetry Editor (sandraslittlebookshop)
Some Poems by People I Like; Naila Keleta Mae, Chrystos et al; 60 pp, Toronto, 2007.
Silent Slam; Beatriz Hausner, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha et al; 32 pp, Toronto, 2005.
Broken Telephone/au téléphone; Jorge Lara Rivera, Fred Wah et al; 24 pp, Banff, 2004.
Playwrighting
Outspoken, Playwrights Canada Press, Strange Attractors (2 monologues), 4pp, Toronto, 2009.
Story Commissions
Protest!, Comma Press, “Kick-Start”, advisor Frank Salt, 15 pp + audio, Manchester, 2017.
Thought X, Comma Press, “Equivalence”, advisor Ana Jofre, 8 pp, Manchester, 2017.
The Write Stuff, Pearson Canada, “I Know It’s Serious”, 2 pp, Toronto, 2013.
Can’tLit, ECW Press, “Things I Don’t Remember”, 2 pp, Toronto, 2009.
Other Stories
We Were Always Here, 404 Ink, “Smudged”, 6 pp, Edinburgh, 2019.
Essay Commissions
Imaginary Safe House, Frog Hollow Press, “My Arrival at Crip”, 19 pp, Victoria, 2019.
The Bi-ble V. II, Monstrous Regiment, “A Man, A Cane…”, 9 pp, Edinburgh, 2019.
Stairs and Whispers, Nine Arches, “Nothing About…”, 7 pp + audio, Rugby, 2017.
The State of the Arts, Coach House Books, “Towards fair-trade lit”, 10 pp, Toronto, 2006.
Poetry
Versus Versus: 100 Deaf, Disabled…, Bloodaxe Books, “having been”, 1 pg, London, 2025.
Works For Now, Espresso Books, “Conversations with Robots…”, 1 pg, Toronto, 2020.
Why Poetry?, Verve, “When I Imagine the Sound of IT”, 1 pg, Birmingham, 2018.
Stairs and Whispers, Nine Arches, “Unparalleled Poetic…”, 3 pp + audio, Rugby, 2017.
#UntitledOne, Neu! Reekie!, “Tilt” and “Flip”, 2 pp, Edinburgh, 2015.
Naked Among Thistles, Stewed Rhubarb, “Homecoming™”, 3 pp, Edinburgh, 2014.
Catechism: Poems for Pussy Riot, English PEN, “Weapons…”, 2 pp, London, 2012.
Rogue Stimulus, Mansfield Press, “Desperate Times”, 1 pg, Toronto, 2010.
Crisis Book, presspresspress, “Slump”, 12 pp, Toronto, 2010.
Strong Words Year 2, indiepolitik,“Selected Works”, 3pp, Toronto, 2007.
Cuatro Postigos, Cultural Institute of Yucatán, 40 pp in translation, Mérida, 2007.
radiant danse uv being, Nightwood/blewointment, “Nearest…”, 1 pg, Vancouver, 2006.
Red Light: Superheroes…, Arsenal Pulp, “Lipstick Boys”, 1 pg, Vancouver, 2005.
The Common Sky, Three Squares Press, “Up”, 1 pg, Toronto, 2003.
Resist!, Fernwood, “A Kiss for the Riot Cop”, 1 pg, Black Point, 2001.
Aware in this, Flow Sundays, “Love:11” and “Resurrection”, 2pp, Bermuda, 1999.
Photography
Trans*Homo, NoNo Verlag, “Funder / Lawyer”, 2 pp, Berlin, 2012.
Testifyin’, Playwrights Canada Press, “Yagayah”, 1 pg, Toronto, 2003.
Online Magazines
Stories
beestung, “People Should Not Repeat Things Back To You”, text & audio, Philadelphia, Feb. 2026.
The Deaf Poets Society, “Personal Assistant”, text & audio, USA, Mar. 2019.
British Council Discover Project commission, “Boost”, text & audio, London/Istanbul, Mar. 2018.
Cosmonauts Avenue, “Toronto”, Montréal, Sept. 2016.
subTerrain magazine, “Chance”, Vancouver, Spring 2014.
Broken Pencil Magazine, “Things I Don’t Remember”, Toronto, July 2011.
Poetry
The Week Shall Inherit The Verse, “The Question”, Cobourg, Summer 2012.
Matrix Magazine, “After The Phone Call”, Montréal, Spring 2010.
Drunken Boat, Blissful Times excerpts, eds Queyras; Shankar; Poucel, Boston, Winter 2008.
Lemon Hound, Blissful Times excerpts, Montréal, Nov. 2007.
Essay Commissions
Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Literature, “A Manifesto of Manifestos”, text & audio, Syracuse, Feb. 2024.
Disability Futures / Kenny Fries, “Remembering the Now… Queer & Trans Disabled Film”, text & audio, Syracuse, Nov. 2020.
Birds of Paradise, “Mourning the Past, Demanding a Better Future”, Glasgow, Oct. 2020.
HA&L Magazine, “My Arrival at Crip: Poetic Histories…”, text & audio, Hamilton, Oct. 2019.
Feral Feminisms, “Notes on Able and Accessible Filmmaking”, Toronto, June 2016.
Arts Journalism
Sight & Sound Magazine / BFI, Greatest Films of All Time, reviewer, London, 2022.
British Council / Disability Arts International, “Theatre Profile: Canada / Northern Turtle Island”, London, Mar. 2021.
Disability Arts Online, arts reviews, Brighton, 2016-2021.
British Council / Disability Arts International, “Accessible Books”, London, June 2020.
Disability Arts Online, Guest Editor, Brighton, April-May 2020.
Disability Arts Online, “Quality & the Marginalised Artist”, text & audio, Brighton, 2018-2019.
British Council / Disability Arts International, “Captioning in the Performing Arts”, London, Dec. 2018.
Xtra! Magazine, theatre & book reviews, Toronto, 2005-2011.
NOW Magazine, freelance book reviews, Toronto, 2006-2007.
Print Magazines
Short Stories
Extra Teeth, “Half”, 2 pp, Glasgow, Spring 2022.
Gutter Magazine, “Water,logged”, 2 pp, Glasgow, Spring 2019.
subTerrain magazine, “Chance”, 1 pg, Vancouver, Spring 2014.
dead (g)end(er), “The Mistake”, 2pp, Saint Catharines, Spring 2012.
Gutter Magazine, “Air”, 3 pp, Glasgow, Winter 2012.
Gutter Magazine, “The Mothers”, 1 pg, Glasgow, Summer 2011.
Chroma Journal, “Inhale”, 3 pp London, Summer 2010.
Broken Pencil,“Things I Don’t Remember”, 2pp, Toronto, Autumn 2007.
This Magazine, “I Know It’s Serious”, 1 pg, Toronto, Sept. 2007.
The Fence, “This Thing”, 1 pg, Toronto, Summer 2007.
dig., “Tomorrow Is, After All”, 2 pp, Toronto, May 2007.
Poetry
Zarf, “(No Poetry)”, 1 pg, Glasgow, Jan. 2020.
Magma Poetry Journal, 4 pp (interview), London, Sept. 2017.
SCREE, “Colonial Inferiority”, 2pp, Edinburgh, June 2011.
anything anymore anywhere, “J’ai faim”, 5pp, Edinburgh, Spring 2011.
Chroma Journal, “Ambilingual”, 1 pg, London, Winter 2008.
make/shift, “Argh” and “Weapons…”, 1pg, Los Angeles, Spring 2008.
Tower of Babble, “The Terrifying Nature…”, 1 pg, Glasgow, Autumn 2007.
Kiss Machine, “Goodbye 1”, 1 pg, Toronto, Autumn 2007.
twaddle, “Instability in a Gay Theatre…”, 1 pg, Toronto, Mar. 2007.
Rampike, Blissful Times excerpts, 2pp, Sault Ste Marie, Spring 2006.
Alucema Review, “Don’t Trust the Postcards”, 1 pg, Spain, Spring 2006.
Eldigoras , “Ir por aire/Up For Air”, 1 pg, Spain, Spring 2004.
Literary Review of Canada, “Reasons to Stay #2”, 1 pg, Toronto, Winter 2004.
Shameless Magazine, “Heavy”, 1 pg, Toronto, Sept. 2004.
This Magazine, “It Could Have Been Mad Chicken”, 1 pg, Toronto, Mar. 2004.
Navegaciones zur, “Razones para permanacer”, 1 pg, Mérida, Spring 2003.
Taddle Creek Magzine, “SASE”, 1 pg, Toronto, Winter 2001.
Prism International, “Ma Naissance (My Birth)”, 2pp, Vancouver, Winter 1999.
Anything That Moves, “Mathematics of Love”, 1 pg, San Francisco, Summer 1999.
Canadian Woman Studies, “The Rise of the PCs”, 1 pg, Toronto, Summer 1998.
Zygote, “Lineage”, 1 pg, Winnipeg, Summer 1998.
Essay Commissions
Feral Feminisms, “Able & Accessible Filmmaking”, 7pp, Toronto, 2016.
Open Letter, “Vectors in Parallel”, with a.rawlings, 4 pp, Toronto, 2011.
Arts Journalism
Xtra!, theatre & book reviews, Toronto, 2005-2011.
NOW Magazine, freelance book reviews, Toronto, 2006-2007.
Spew (The Theatre Centre), interviews & profiles, Toronto, 2000-2003.
Write! Magazine, interview: Susan Musgrave, 2 pp, Toronto, 2000.
Multimedia Collaborations
Literature-Music-Film Collectives
They They Theys, co-founder, writer and megaphonist, Edinburgh, 2014-16.
Zorras, co-founder, writer / megaphonist / filmmaker, Edinburgh, 2007-13.
Stumblin’ Tongues, co-founder, poet, Toronto, 1995-97.
Poetry-Music Recordings
Weapons of Minor Destruction, with Zorras, video and digital single, Toronto/Cobourg, 2012.
Doctor Says, with Zorras, hard and digital EP, MAR, Edinburgh, 2012.
We Apologise for Any Inconvenience, with Zorras, hard and digital CD, MAR, Edinburgh, 2009.
Podcasts with Transcripts
Grief Offerings, Rhubaba Gallery, with Emilia Beatriz & Etzali Hernández, Edinburgh, 2022-23.
Selected for Made In Scotland: the Best of Independent Scottish Audio (Bespoken Media), Edinburgh, 2026.
Queer Disabled Loss, Mourning & Memorialisation, DAO, with Etzali Hernández, Brighton, 2021.
Disability And… Working Class LGBTQIA, Graeae/DAO, curator, London, 2020.
Access To Publishing, Lunar Poetry, with Barokka/Antrobus/Turnbull, London, 2017.
Film Audio Description Support and Scripting
Borderless Art by Sone Bulut, AD script, Reel Borders / Film Resounds / Collective Text, 2025.
New Scots; 5 films by various filmmakers, AD script, Scottish Refugee Council / Media Education, 2022.
Waiting for the Buff to Rub Me Out by Mark Lyken, AD script, Now & Next / Collective Text, 2021.
Between the Dog and the Wolf by Marissa Keating, AD script, Now & Next / Collective Text, 2021.
All These Voices by Benjamin Owen, AD script, Now & Next / Collective Text, 2021.
House Made of Tin by Raisa Kabir, AD support, Ford Foundation / Collective Text, 2021.
Song of the Shirt by Kerstin Schroedinger, AD script, Collective Text, 2020.
Published in Insert: Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, Vienna, 2024.
Rosslyn Chapel’s Junior Tour Guides, AD script, Rosslyn Chapel / Illuminate / Media Education, 2019
Theatre
Equivalence, writer/performer, Anatomy, Summerhall, Edinburgh, 2016.
Tours: Transpose/Barbican, London, 2016; Edinburgh Filmhouse / Film Hub Scotland, 2017.
Found In Translation, writer/performer, Oxford Playhouse / Chroma Journal, 2009.
Tours: Soho Theatre, London, 2010.
The Eruption of Kilauea, writer/performer, Screen Bandita/Scottish Documentary Institute, 2009.
Other Me, writer, Scream Literary Festival, The Trane Studio, Toronto, 2005.
Strange Attractors, co-writer/performer, Hysteria Festival / Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, 2004.
Body Geometry: A Good Night Out, writer/performer, Dir: David Duclos, The Theatre Centre, Toronto, 2003.
Seeing Each Other, co-writer/performer, Dir: Karla Faulkonbridge, New York International Fringe, 2002.
The Man, writer, Waterspout Theatre, Dir: Andra Simons, Bermuda, 1999.
Tours: Toronto Fringe Festival, 2000.
Assembly (Corrina Hodgson), performer, Theatre Centre, Toronto, 2000.
Creed (Corrina Hodgson), performer, Rhubarb! Festival, Toronto, 1998.
And He Lost His Head, performer, Bald Ego Productions, Toronto, 1993.
Literary Performance
Glasgow / Glaschu
Glasgow International (online); UBelong (online); Zarf; Glasgow Autonomous Space; Feminist Methods (University of Strathclyde); Arts & Precarity (Glasgow University); Fail Better; Undoing Listening (Transmission Gallery); Free Pride; Scratch (Arches); Spangled Cabaret; Words Per Minute; Initial Itch; Aye Write! (Golden Hour); Manifesto Kabaret (Tron Theatre); This Collection (Glue Factory); Stereo (Scragfight).
Edinburgh / Dùn Èideann
Disability Equality (online/EIS); Anatomy #14 (Summerhall); Syndicate; Caesura; Edinburgh International Book Festival (Unbound/WPM); Leith Late Festival; Electric Tales (The Stand); ConVersify (Edinburgh University); Versecore (Roxy Arthouse); Inky Fingers (Forest Café); Neu! Reekie!; Noisy Nights (Traverse Theatre); Click Clack Club; Pussy Whipped Festival; Ladyfest; Queer Mutiny; Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh; Scottish Poetry Library; Converge (Out of the Blue); Poetry at the… (Jekyll & Hyde); The Eruption of Kilauea (Screen Bandita); Muse-ic (Bongo Club); Wailing Banshee; Itsy’s Kabarett (Voodoo Rooms); VoxBox; The Golden Hour; Living With (LGBT Health), West Port Book Festival.
Aberdeen / Obar Dheathain
Women Art Revolution! (Belmont Picture House); Suffragette City (The Tunnels).
London
Last Words (Roundhouse); Transpose (Barbican); Soho Theatre; Write Queer London (Museum of London); Jawdance (Apples & Snakes / Rich Mix); Sage & Time; Bar Wotever; Ladyfest 10; Gays Aloud Squat; Are You Sitting Comfortably? (Fox & The Teller /Abney Park Cemetery); Express Excess; Farrago Poetry (RADA); Hot August Fringe (RVT); Incite!; GFest; (Cochrane Theatre); Well Furnished.
Other UK & Europe
Wysing Arts Centre (online/Cambridge); Oxford Playhouse; Voices in the Gallery (online / John Hansard Gallery / University of Southampton); Crippled & Queer (online / Disability Arts Cymru, Cardiff); Ledbury Poetry Festival; Birmingham City University; SHOUT Festival (Birmingham); Homotopia Festival (Liverpool); Debt Records Presents (Manchester); Pussy Whipped (Manchester); Moor Music Festival (Skipton); Café d’espacio (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria); Suwanne’s Clit Club (ADM, Amsterdam); Alternaqueer (Queeristan, Amsterdam); Entzaubert DIY Festival (Berlin).
Toronto / Tkaronto
Bi+ Arts Festival; AvantGarden; Impossible Words; Alterna-queer; The Secret Handshake; Influency (University of Toronto); The Art Bar; LabCab Festival (Factory Theatre); Toronto New School of Writing; Test Reading Series; Pride Toronto; Harbourfront Centre; Word on the Street; The Scream Literary Festival; Idler Pub Reading Series; Get Your Lit Out (Art Metropole); Lexiconjury; I.V. Lounge; Syntactic Sundays; Strong Words; Canadian Festival of Spoken Word; Kat Biscuits; Cheap Queers; Clit Lit; Leftwords; The Pontiac Quarterly; Poetic License; BITE; Vixens & Storytellers; The Pope Squat; Toronto Small Press Book Fair.
Other North America / Turtle Island
Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity; Grey Borders (Ste Catharines); The Hillside Festival (Guelph); University of Guelph Queer Identities; Manitoulin Island Libraries Festival; Mariposa Festival (Orillia); Kingston Writers Festival; Thrive (Kingston); SLS/LitPop (Montréal); VERSeFest (Ottawa); Ottawa International Writers’ Festival; AB Series (Ottawa); The Biscuit Eater (Mahone Bay); Venus Envy (Halifax); Pink Pony (New York); Frequency (New York); Flow Sundays (Bermuda); FONCA (Mérida, México).
Multimedia Event Curation
Cachín Cachán Cachunga!, independent, Edinburgh/Glasgow, 2009-present.
Qrip Shielders Solstice Salon, independent, online/Glasgow, 2022.
A Wake, with Birds of Paradise, online/Glasgow, 2020.
Disabled and Deaf LGBTQI+ Pride, The Space, Glasgow, 2018.
Who’s Your Dandy?, with Filmhouse & Film Hub Scotland, Edinburgh, 2016-17.
Cobourg Poetry & Literary Arts Festival, with impresario Gallery, Cobourg, 2012.
Clandestina, with Toronto Women’s Bookstore, Toronto, 2012.
An Edinburgh Zine & Small Press Fair, with Forest Fringe, Edinburgh, 2011.
Faceplant, with Forest Fringe, Edinburgh, 2010-11.
Who’s Your Dandy?, independent, Edinburgh, 2007-08.
Artists Against War: One Big Know, independent, Toronto City Hall, 2006.
Silent Slam, with National Poetry Month, Drake Hotel, Toronto, 2005.
B.A.N.G. Cabaret, for The Theatre Centre, Toronto, 2004.
Second Tongues, for Salvador Allende Arts Festival, Toronto, 2004.
Language Lounge, with The Queen West Art Crawl, Toronto, 2004.
All About Us, with Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto, 2002-03.
Mouth Music, with The Theatre Centre, Toronto, 2000.
Education
School of Toronto Dance Theatre, Advanced Graham Technique, 1992-2001.
University of Toronto Drama Programme, BA hons. with high distinction, 2000.