Sand Journal #26 2024 hair and “sonambients” – clusters of

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featuring: • Taymour Soomro on resisting rigid stories about who you are • Madeleine Thien on how writing builds the room in which it can exist • Amitava Kumar on why authenticity isn’t a license we carry in our wallets • Tahmima Anam on giving herself permission to be funny • Ingrid Rojas Contreras on the bodily challenge of writing about trauma • Zeyn Joukhadar on queering English and the power of refusing to translate ourselves • Kiese Laymon on hearing that no one wants to read the story that you want to write • Deepa Anappara on writing even through conditions that impede the creation of art

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Sand Journal #26 2024 hair and “sonambients” – clusters ofCreatures lurk in this issues poetry, prose and art. They inhabit the liminal, the both at once and the neither nor. SAND 26 seems content to linger in the in between, unable to pick a reality, or unwilling to face what the new reality might be. Take the title, shifting, not as a conclusion, but as an entry point. SAND 26: what shape will it take for you?