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The heron delivers Issue 13.1 — SAND THE GEARS, February 2025
Welcoming 13.1 — SAND THE GEARS, the issue that asks the question: “What would it look like if we used our art to throw sand into—instead of oil—the gears of the machine?” With eyes on the machines that run our world, this issue, writers, makers, creators, and disrupters have shared works that attempt to accumulate into larger movements of interruption, including self-interruption. The result, among others: Sunday school blues. Persian–Armenian wordplay. Ancient Egyptian funerary rites in conversation with capital punishment. A performance of unperformable pieces. A writer’s labor.
Thank you, contributors, for generously collaborating with us, and for sustaining and inspiring us for more than a decade. Here at OF ZOOS, we’re continuing to think about how we can support the online literary ecosystem better—both in Singapore, where some of us are based, and beyond. We want to be a dynamic space where all types of creators can participate, collaborate, co-create, “attempt-ate” (to borrow from Wahidah Tambee from Issue 12.1 -- P R (I) S E). We’ve begun paying contributors as of this issue, and we might try something a little different for our next call for submissions. Keep your eyes peeled for more announcements.
In the meantime, we hope you enjoy SAND THE GEARS, and we appreciate you all dearly.