https://sickmagazine.org sickmagazine.org Mon, 27 May 2024 18:11:14 +0000 https://sickmagazine.org en https://sickmagazine.org/Mobile-Left-Navigation-copy Sun, 21 May 2023 17:45:27 +0000 sickmagazine.org https://sickmagazine.org/Mobile-Left-Navigation-copy ︎<img width="800" height="800" width_o="800" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e384f778bfbdbfc0de5a8f23bb413e61b0e03c594317458fa9cc2b3406f8187b/TRANSPARENT-icon.png" data-mid="179457919" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/e384f778bfbdbfc0de5a8f23bb413e61b0e03c594317458fa9cc2b3406f8187b/TRANSPARENT-icon.png" /> about shop stockists submit press excerpts finances/support us archive fairs &amp; events reading listresources contact instagram twitter facebook https://sickmagazine.org/about Sun, 21 May 2023 17:45:27 +0000 sickmagazine.org https://sickmagazine.org/about ABOUT SICK is an independent, thoughtful magazine exploring illness and disability, founded &amp; edited by Olivia Spring and designed by Kaiya Waerea. Founded in Norwich, UK in 2019, we are currently based in Maine, USA and London, UK. We typically publish one issue per year. SICK is committed to elevating the voices of sick &amp; disabled people by publishing essays, features, poetry, visual art, interviews, and more. Our aim is to increase representation of sick &amp; disabled people in publishing and the arts and to challenge the harmful stereotypes and misconceptions surrounding disability. We work in and with our slowness, pausing and resting when we need to. We believe, listen to, and support each other. We reject productivity as means of value and celebrate our sick &amp; disabled bodies. Learn more about our work by reading interviews and reviews on our press page.Issue 7 is out now! OUR TEAM Olivia Spring, Founder &amp; EditorBorn and raised in NYC, Olivia moved to London to study journalism at Goldsmiths University in 2015. After moving to Norwich upon graduation, she launched the first issue of SICK in 2019. In 2020, Olivia found herself back in the US and has lived in Maine ever since. She manages all day-to-day operations from her home while design and print, alongside partial fulfillment and distribution, remain in the UK. Olivia spends most of her free time working on SICK in varying capacities in addition to dreaming big dreams about the magazine’s future. She is working on a memoir exploring illness, fatigue, and disbelief, collects and sells vintage clothing, and is mom to her rescue dog, Black Bean. Kaiya Waerea, DesignerKaiya and Olivia met in the planning stages of issue 01 and Kaiya has designed every issue since, along with merchandise including pins, posters, tote bags, calendars, t-shirts, stickers, and more. Kaiya has also worked as an assistant editor since issue 3, supporting Olivia in selecting contributions to the mag.Kaiya is a writer, designer and publisher from Aotearoa, now living in London. His research is concerned with crip feminist methodologies, indigenous knowledge production, and print culture. His writing has been featured in Errant Journal: Learning from our Ancestors, AIGA Eye on Design and others. Kaiya co-runs feminist press Sticky Fingers Publishing alongside Sophie Paul. Catriona Morton, Copy editorCatriona is a British-Irish writer, editor, and producer. Originally from Manchester, UK, she now lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her first book, ‘The Way We Survive: Notes on Rape Culture’ was published in 2021 and her work has appeared in Refinery29, WIRED, and the BBC. She lives with multiple chronic illnesses, which means SICK is one of her favourite projects to work on, and has been working as a freelance copy editor for SICK in an increasing capacity since Issue 3 in 2021. Hannah Barry, Assistant Hannah is the newest addition to the SICK team, working as an assistant to Olivia. They primarily take care of the day-to-day emails, fulfil orders, read through submissions, and support the process of SICK issues becoming realities.Hannah is a chronically ill weirdo who uses they/them pronouns and is from Old Town, Maine. 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Contact your local store for availability.NEW STOCKISTS: Bold Magazines (Portland, ME), Waterway Arts (Turner Falls, MA), Works on Paper (Greenfield, MA), Atomic Books, (Baltimore, MD) USAMAINEHinge Collaborative, Oliver &amp; Friends (Waterville)Stone Broke Bread &amp; Books (Gardiner)Bold Magazines, The Merchant Co (Portland)hello hello books (Rockland)Topo Paper &amp; Post (Camden)&nbsp; &nbsp; NEW YORKPrinted Matter, Iconic Magazines, McNally Jackson (Manhattan)Quimby’s Bookstore, What Mary Kept (Brooklyn) CALIFORNIASkylight Books (Los Angeles)Heath Newsstand (San Francisco) MASSACHUSETTS&nbsp;Waterway Arts (Turner Falls)Works on Paper Shop (Greenfield) MARYLANDAtomic Books (Baltimore) NORTH CAROLINADowntown Books &amp; News (Asheville) ILLINOISInga Bookshop (Chicago) WISCONSINA Room Of One’s Own (Madison)Woodland Pattern (Milwaukee) TEXASFirst Light Books (Austin) CANADA Maktaba Bookshop&nbsp;(Montreal)Art Metropole (Toronto) AUSTRALIAFiend (Naarm-based online shop)Chibi &amp; Esme (Brunswick) UNITED KINGDOM Housmans, ICA Bookshop, The Feminist Library, Tate Modern, magCulture (London)Arnolfini, Bookhaus, Rova Editions (Bristol)Magalleria (Bath)Magazine Heaven (Rushden)La Biblioteka (Sheffield)News From Nowhere, Ropes &amp; Twines (Liverpool)UNITOM (Manchester)The NewBridge Project (Newcastle)Mostyn Gallery (Llandudno)GERMANYdo you read me?!&nbsp;(Berlin)Funk Magazine (Cologne) BELGIUMrile books (Brussles)IMS Tijdschriften (Antwerp) PORTUGAL Under the cover (Lisbon) NETHERLANDS Athenaeum Nieuwscentrum (Amsterdam)SWEDEN Papercut (Stockholm)TAIWANMulti-Arts Corporation (Taipei)SINGAPOREBasheer Graphic BooksHONG KONGKUBRICK &nbsp;JAPAN Magazine Isn’t Dead (Tokyo-based online shop)SPBS, SPBS Toranomon, Snow Shoveling, Hyakunen (Tokyo)Pastoral (Obihiro, Hokkaido)Hachinohe Book Center (Hachinohe, Aomori)BOOKNERD (Norioka, Iwate)seikatsu-tsudurikata (Yokohama, Kanagawa)sioribi (Matsumoto, Nagano)Hibiuta (Tsu, Mie)Kisuikuko (Yurihama, Tottori)honnoarutokoro-ajiro, Ao-Hata Bookstore (Fukuoka, Fukuoka) Select issues of SICK are also available to read at: LONDON: Wellcome Collection Reading Room; the National Poetry Library; Central Saint Martins NORWICH, UK: Norwich Millennium Zine Library; The Shoebox&nbsp;BERLIN: Lady Liberty LibraryNYC: The Tamiment-Wagner Collections located in NYU Special Collections; Barnard College Library MAINE: Bixler Library and Special Collections at Colby College; College of The Atlantic library; Farmington Public Library MASSACHUSETS: Tufts University SMFA Library Zine Collection, Phillips Library at Peabody Essex Museum&nbsp; We are distributed in the UK and Europe by Central Books. For enquiries from outside of Europe, please email olivia@sickmagazine.org for information about stocking and wholesale prices.&nbsp; https://sickmagazine.org/submit Sun, 21 May 2023 17:45:28 +0000 sickmagazine.org https://sickmagazine.org/submit SUBMISSION GUIDELINESSubmissions for issue 7 closed on October 31st, 2025. We typically open for submissions once a year. Sign up to our mailing list for updates.&nbsp; SICK publishes work from folks who are sick/chronically ill/mentally ill/disabled. We are looking for writing &amp; artwork that thinks through the experience of illness and disability in new ways, or explores a topic that is framed by this experience. We do not have themes for our issues.&nbsp; While contributions are only accepted from chronically ill and disabled people, your work does not have to explicitly be about illness or disability, but informed by it in some way. Please read through our guidelines below to learn what we are looking for and how to submit. All pitches and submissions will receive a response by November 30th, 2025. WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:Personal essays, creative and experimental nonfiction, lyric essays (800 - 2,200 words)Poetry (submit a minimum of two and a maximum of five poems)Reported features (1,500 - 2,000 words)Op-eds (900 - 1,700 words)Book, film, &amp; art reviews (800 - 1,300 words)Interviews with writers, artists, creatives, activists (we can help you contact the interviewee if needed)Visual art (submit a minimum of three and a maximum of eight images. We publish three - seven images per artist, please do not submit a single image)Cover artwork (artists are typically chosen from submissions; however, if you do not want to submit but would like to express interest in creating cover artwork, please email your portfolio and any relevant sketches) WHAT WE’RE NOT LOOKING FOR:Short storiesRhyming poems‘Letters to self’ListiclesScreenplaysAcademic writingPersonal or nature photographyReligious materialSICK does not publish work that includes medical advice, reviews of treatments or diets, ‘wellness’ tips, ‘warrior’ narratives, or stories of ‘overcoming’ disability. We do not consider work that is made with the use of AI. If possible, please read a copy of SICK before submitting to familiarize yourself with the kind of work we publish. We have both print and PDF copies available in our shop. You can also see selected work from past issues on our excerpts page. PAYMENT PROSE: 12 cents per word&nbsp; POETRY &amp; ARTWORK: Flat rate of $90&nbsp; Contributors are paid upon completion or acceptance of work. All payments are made in USD via PayPal. Our contributor rates are dependent on sales from the previous issue, in addition to merch sales, donations, and grant funding. Read more about our finances here. HOW TO SUBMIT All submissions should be sent via email to submit (@) sickmagazine.org. All pitches and submissions will receive a response by November 30th. For written submissions, include a title, word count, and short bio (5-30 words) in the body of your email. Please attach your submission as a Word doc or PDF. Full or partial draft submissions are preferred, but pitches (see below) from writers who have relevant examples of their work are equally considered.For pitches, tell us in 2-3 paragraphs what you want to write about and why. Include the main topic(s) you will cover, why it’s important, a suggested title, and 2-3 relevant examples of recent work alongside a short bio (5-30 words). If you do not have any recent relevant work, please submit a full or partial draft instead. Pitches without relevant work samples are unlikely to be commissioned.For poetry, include the number of poems you are submitting alongside a short bio (5-30 words) in the body of your email. Please attach your submission as a Word doc or PDF and include all poems in one document. Please submit a minimum of two and a maximum of five poems. For visual art, include a short statement about the work you are submitting (15-50 words), a bio (5-30 words), and send images as JPEG or PNG attachments and not in the body of the email. We publish a minimum of three works per artist; please submit a minimum of three and a maximum of eight images. FAQ + TIPS Do you accept previously published work?We are happy to consider previously published work on a case-by-case basis with permission from the original publisher. Please clearly state if your submission has been previously published and if so, where, when, and the link if applicable. We also welcome submissions that are excerpts from soon-to-be or recently published books. Do you accept simultaneous submissions? Yes, as long as you clearly state this in your submission and notify us immediately if it is accepted elsewhere. Can I send multiple pitches/submissions? You are welcome to pitch up to three ideas or submit three pieces of written work per submission period. You can also pitch or submit across three different categories. For example: a visual art submission, poetry submission, and an essay submission would be ok. Please include multiple pitches/submissions in the same email if possible. Can I submit if I am not based in the US or UK? Yes! We encourage submissions from outside these areas. Please note that all contributors will be paid in USD via PayPal (exceptions can be made when necessary).Can I submit if I have been published in a previous issue?In an effort to share as many voices as possible, please do not submit if your work was published in issue 6. Contributors from issues 01 - 5 are welcome to submit, but new voices may be prioritized. How do you choose a cover artist?Cover artists are typically selected from our visual art submissions. All art submissions are generally considered for cover artwork and inside illustrations. However, if you do not want to submit to issue 7 but would like to express interest in creating cover artwork, please email your portfolio and any relevant sketches. What kinds of features do you publish?Features we have previously published cover topics such as accessibility in higher education, the intersection of mental and physical health, why outdated diagnostic methods are being used in the NHS, and more. Read an example from issue 6 here and from 2 here. We are interested in publishing more political-leaning features - pitch us on policy failures, climate catastrophe, and late stage capitalism from a disabled perspective. What type of artwork do you publish? We have published a range of mediums from drawings and paintings to collage, digital, and textile work.&nbsp;Please be sure to have high resolution images available. &nbsp; We receive many submissions that are photographs of work on display in galleries, and while we welcome these types of work, please consider how it will translate to print. Sometimes we receive photographs of work that is intriguing and of interest, but would struggle to come across in the magazine the way it might in person. Click here to see an example of this kind of submission that was published in issue 5.&nbsp; What happens if my work is accepted? You will be notified via email and asked to provide a bio for publication and an invoice once work is completed (if not already); artists will be asked for a finalized artist statement. If you are submitting an essay, feature, or other written work, we will work on edits together before publication. Our editing process consists of hard and soft deadlines to allow for flexibility. Once the issue is published, your work will be shared on our social media platforms and may be used on merch or other materials with your permission. (In the past, these have been posters, bookmarks, prints, and stickers.)&nbsp; Why has my work not been accepted? As a chronically ill person working through hundreds of submissions, I am not able to provide individual feedback. We receive far more submissions than we are able to print and have to be very selective. Should I include a content note in my submission? No. If your work is accepted, content notes will be considered during editing. Does mental illness/autism/OCD/other count as a chronic illness/disability? Can I still submit if I’ve recovered/am in remission? Yes! Under the 2010 Equality Act, you are considered disabled ‘if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a ‘substantial’ and ‘long-term’ negative effect on your ability to do normal activities.’ You do not have to have a diagnosis or explain your disability to me. This also applies if you’ve recovered from an illness – for example, if you no longer have cancer but your work is informed by this experience, you are welcome to submit. If you’re still unsure, please feel free to submit anyway. Please message @asickmagazine on Instagram or email hello@sickmagazine.org with any questions not answered above. Please reach out if there is anything we can do to make the submission process more accessible for you. 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width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0d77c8df1a452519de8fd69733d036104540c4f2d0fd6531a2eb9ecea806108/4.png" data-mid="179457979" border="0" data-scale="66" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e0d77c8df1a452519de8fd69733d036104540c4f2d0fd6531a2eb9ecea806108/4.png" />Review Magalleria, September 2020 <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82a5cf79e60a7805f88ef82099f214d6b945e871ca5c8b7331c3f1fa836eed03/5.png" data-mid="179457980" border="0" data-scale="67" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82a5cf79e60a7805f88ef82099f214d6b945e871ca5c8b7331c3f1fa836eed03/5.png" />Recommends The New York Times, July 2020 <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee8967ea27066919aab1944be3104b3f37439f0034c15ef897ca69c89617c06d/6.png" data-mid="179457981" border="0" data-scale="67" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ee8967ea27066919aab1944be3104b3f37439f0034c15ef897ca69c89617c06d/6.png" />Interview Bite my Tongue podcast, August 2021 <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/af2d2e71e3cda6a025007e1788cb47561744069358b26d78111ceb414007c2d3/7.png" data-mid="179457982" border="0" data-scale="68" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/af2d2e71e3cda6a025007e1788cb47561744069358b26d78111ceb414007c2d3/7.png" />Interview BBC Radio Norfolk, April 2021 <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1fb7440757c8e70ee32a40887df3f5c8edfe9157430d709be1433afc1f255f4f/8.png" data-mid="179457983" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1fb7440757c8e70ee32a40887df3f5c8edfe9157430d709be1433afc1f255f4f/8.png" />Review magCulture, August 2020 <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" 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In 2019, we raised £600 and began work on issue 01 with a priority of paying all contributors, remaining ad-free, and increasing our contributor rates over time. We are not interested in selling things to our readers, but rather paying contributors well, maintaining an affordable retail price, and offering a sliding scale. Contributor rates for each issue are dependant on sales from the previous issue, grants, donations, and any other products we produce.Our first four issues were funded by sales and donations. In May of 2023, we received our first grant — $5,000 from The Kindling Fund, a grant program administered by SPACE as part of the Andy Warhol Foundation For The Visual Arts Regional Regranting Program. This allowed us to increase contributor rates for issue 5, host a launch party (which we hadn’t been able to do since 2019), provide free copies to disabled people on low/no income, begin with a larger print run, pay myself (for the first time!), and more. In October of 2023, we received a $10,000 project grant from the Ellis Beauregard Foundation to produce Issue 6. This allowed us to publish Issue 6 earlier in the year, increase rates for team members (editor, designer, assistant, copy-editor), host another launch party, provide free copies, and ultimately provide a foundation for SICK’s sustainability. We still have many more goals, such as increasing contributor and team member rates further, increasing our print runs, offering an unlimited number of free copies, making a more accessible website, offering SICK as an audiobook/podcast, creating more merchandise, and much more. In January of 2025, we received a $3,000 grant from The Kindling Fund while we took a year off publishing a new issue. Instead, we were able to focus on a community event called SICK CIRCLE, where chronically ill folks gathered to mend garments and engage in discussion. We had originally proposed three of the events, but were only able to complete one due to being granted partial funding. These funds were also used to design and print a zine documenting the workshop, in addition to design research and development for the magazine, and re-printing the out of stock issue 4. In December of 2025, SICK was a recipient of the Disability Futures Nominated Awards. We were one of 43 organizations nominated to receive an unrestricted $10,000 award. So far, this has allowed us to produce our biggest print run yet—1,800 copies of issue 7.As of 2026, SICK Magazine is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of SICK Magazine must be made payable to “Fractured Atlas” only and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. You can make a donation here.&nbsp;All donations go towards paying chronically ill &amp; disabled writers, artists, designers, and illustrators, as well as printing and maintenence costs. <img alt="Donate now at Fractured Atlas!" src="https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/images/fundraiser-share-buttons/share-button--light--alpha.png"> Below you will find my best effort at tracking all incoming and outgoing costs issue-by-issue, however please note that these are not 100% accurate and considered an ongoing work in progress. Issue 01 is missing because I am exhausted! ISSUE BY ISSUE BREAKDOWN&nbsp; Our current monthly outgoing costs are approximately $85, which covers our website hosting costs, online shop fees, google suite, and canva subscriptions. Our current monthly income from Patreon is approximately $96. ISSUE 2 OUTGOING: £1,921 on contributor payments (writers, artists, poets, cover artist, illustrator) £350 on design £729 on first printing of 275 copies £3,524 on seven more printings across an 18 month period for a total of 1,265 copies printed INCOMING: £5,989 in online store sales* £1,547 in virtual fair sales *not counting sales of issue 01, stockist sales, &amp; a handful of sales from fairs in 2021 (to be updated) ISSUE 3 OUTGOING: £2,579 on contributor payments £575 on design £285 on printing sticker sheets £1,534 on first printing of 725 copies £1,689 on three more printings across a 15 month period for a total of 1,190 copies printed INCOMING: £4,854 in online store sales, including stickers *Not counting stockists sales or fair sales (to be updated) ISSUE 4 OUTGOING: £2,644 on contributor payments £660 on team member payments (design &amp; copywriter) £1,621 on first print run of 625 copies £1,398 on second print run of 400 copies *100 copies reprinted summer 2025 thanks to Kindling Fund for a total of 1,125 copies printed* INCOMING: $1,000 in crowdfunding £3,967 in online store sales £2,766 in stockist sales $1,080 in fair sales Issue 5 OUTGOING: £2,522.70 on contributor payments £1,489 on team member fees (editor, designer, copywriter) £2,739 on first print run of 1,000 copies £1,180 on second print run of 300 copies for a total of 1,300 printed $600 on launch party (reader honorariums, food and drink, decor, poster design &amp; printing, promotion) $300 on supplying free issues INCOMING: $5,000 grant from the Kindling Fund £2,587 in online store sales $1,904 in US &amp; ROW stockist sales £1,260 in UK stockist sales $982 in fair sales ISSUE 6 OUTGOING: $3,993 on contributor payments $4,890 on team member fees&nbsp;(editor, designer, copywriter, assistant) £2,739 on first print run of 1,000 copies $720 on launch party (reader honorariums, food and drink, decor, poster design &amp; printing, promotion) $3,621 on one print run totaling 1,300 copies INCOMING: $10,000 grant from the Ellis Beauregard Foundation £1,562 in UK store sales $2,972 in US store sales $1,676 in US stockist sales *not counting fair sales or merch (to be updated) We use sliding-scale pricing options in an effort to remain as affordable as possible, knowing that many sick &amp; disabled people live in poverty or low/no income. We hope that those who are able to afford to pay more or offer monetary support will do so in an effort to keep SICK an accessible, ongoing project.&nbsp; https://sickmagazine.org/fairs-events Sun, 21 May 2023 17:45:30 +0000 sickmagazine.org https://sickmagazine.org/fairs-events FAIRS &amp; EVENTS 2026Hallowell Pride Festival, June 6 Granite City Park, Hallowell, Maine Camden Poetry Festival, May 16 Camden, Maine Book Arts Bazaar, April 11USM campus, Portland, Maine 2025Elm City Small Press Fest, November 15Greene Block + Studios, Waterville, Maine New England Art Book Fair, September 5-6SPACE, Portland, Maine Black Cat Book Fair, August 22Belfast, Maine Disability Pride Maine,&nbsp;July 18Mill Park, Augusta, MaineSICK CIRCLE, June 29Maine Clay Collaborative, Portland Hallowell Pride Festival, June 7Granite City Park, Hallowell, Maine Book Arts Bazaar, April 6USM campus, Portland, Maine Safe Voices Grown-Up Book Fair,&nbsp;March 13Auburn, Maine 2024Elm City Small Press Fest, November 16Greene Block + Studios, Waterville, Maine Northampton Print &amp; Book Fair, October 26A.P.E. @ Hawley, Northampton, MANew England Art Book Fair, October 4-5SPACE, Portland, Maine Brooklyn Art Book Fair, September 20-22 Recess Art, Brooklyn, NY Issue 6 launch party, July 13Greene Block + Studios, Waterville, MaineHallowell Pride Festival, June 1Granite City Park, Hallowell, Maine Book Arts Bazaar, April 7USM campus, Portland, Maine Safe Voices Grown-Up Book Fair, February 1Auburn, Maine 2023Caravan Artist Market, November 26Mast Landing, Freeport, Maine Elm City Small Press Fest, November 18Greene Block + Studios, Waterville, Maine 2023 (cont.)Boston Art Book Fair, November 10-12 Boston Center for the Arts CycloramaSeven Lakes Inn Holiday Market, November 5Belgrade Lakes, Maine Crafting the Body workshop, October 16Greene Block + Studios, Waterville, Maine Issue 5 launch party, September 9Greene Block + Studios, Waterville, Maine New England Art Book Fair, September 1-2SPACE, Portland, Maine Sick exhibition reading room, June 21-July 18Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia Book Arts Bazaar, April 2USM campus, Portland, Maine Multiple Formats Art Book Fair, March 18Boston University, School of Visual Arts Jersey Art Book Fair, January 28-29Jersey City, New Jersey Accessibility in Literary Arts discussion, January 26League of Canadian Poets, virtual 2022Elm City Small Press Fest, November 19Greene Block + Studios, Waterville, Maine Boston Art Book Fair, November 4-6Boston Center for the Arts Cyclorama Indiecon fesitval &amp; conference, September 2-4Hamburg, Germany Congress Square Market, May 8Portland, Maine Book Arts Bazaar, April 3USM campus, Portland, Maine 2021 Elm City Small Press Fest, November 20Greene Block + Studios, Waterville, Maine Writing the SICK body workshop, October 28Virtual Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair, February 24-28 2020 SICK writing workshop with the remote body, April 8Virtual 2019Norwich Millennium zine fair, November 23Norwich Millennium library, UK New York launch party &amp; fundraiser, October 16Poets House, NYC Issue 01 launch party, August 28The Playhouse, Norwich, UK <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a65d7532ea6b20a20a7d27e8f3e1a1973eb6f17e2fa1107d264fd059a366b6f1/SICK-CIRCLE.jpg" data-mid="239378970" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a65d7532ea6b20a20a7d27e8f3e1a1973eb6f17e2fa1107d264fd059a366b6f1/SICK-CIRCLE.jpg" /> <img width="784" height="745" width_o="784" height_o="745" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0a6d1061426362b2c3b949aac7efc1eff1d197f64fc3ffdcc8f9d70634f92073/_DTW3145_web.JPEG" data-mid="239378979" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/784/i/0a6d1061426362b2c3b949aac7efc1eff1d197f64fc3ffdcc8f9d70634f92073/_DTW3145_web.JPEG" /> <img width="1440" height="1440" width_o="1440" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01e20fc7d85c6aec982391708f9bc1ee11137256131c47944788324855044675/4B0C3224-AEAA-44E1-8A28-A33D95400675.JPG" data-mid="190974763" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/01e20fc7d85c6aec982391708f9bc1ee11137256131c47944788324855044675/4B0C3224-AEAA-44E1-8A28-A33D95400675.JPG" /> <img width="3309" height="3318" width_o="3309" height_o="3318" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6186a1dfb3189064aa4f296e855645d62b85d5c15a4377fbbcc26c0363da7ed2/L1121832.JPG" data-mid="190974682" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6186a1dfb3189064aa4f296e855645d62b85d5c15a4377fbbcc26c0363da7ed2/L1121832.JPG" /> <img width="1124" height="1120" width_o="1124" height_o="1120" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6d7ae9db6a119e116e165f0b0de44b6c3b86261dd55fb59463d6f9e17c0db5a0/IMG_7306.jpg" data-mid="179458007" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6d7ae9db6a119e116e165f0b0de44b6c3b86261dd55fb59463d6f9e17c0db5a0/IMG_7306.jpg" /> <img width="1767" height="1762" width_o="1767" height_o="1762" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e5781eabe0e30639fb166f1c8140b40cd35a3e588791ef4a3727061d42f2eed0/IMG_1903.JPG" data-mid="190974761" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e5781eabe0e30639fb166f1c8140b40cd35a3e588791ef4a3727061d42f2eed0/IMG_1903.JPG" /> <img width="1440" height="1439" width_o="1440" height_o="1439" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e72d2af16d5e3e22ab7c8abc70684cafcda7642be102e6dff248770a9afdc6f1/six.JPG" data-mid="239378942" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e72d2af16d5e3e22ab7c8abc70684cafcda7642be102e6dff248770a9afdc6f1/six.JPG" /> <img width="1125" height="1117" width_o="1125" height_o="1117" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3023c99eda7ebaad6bd0610633f71c5fef95a337ce52f1bb0849fa87d58ce3a2/IMG_7315.jpg" data-mid="179458008" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3023c99eda7ebaad6bd0610633f71c5fef95a337ce52f1bb0849fa87d58ce3a2/IMG_7315.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="1440" width_o="1440" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b525ef5901cafe7f6bdaf24915527c16caf859b40359490622b09b7a1a7adec/38602D5B-53A0-4D1D-8BA2-60E0FA8C6686.JPG" data-mid="179458004" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b525ef5901cafe7f6bdaf24915527c16caf859b40359490622b09b7a1a7adec/38602D5B-53A0-4D1D-8BA2-60E0FA8C6686.JPG" /> https://sickmagazine.org/reading-list Sun, 21 May 2023 17:45:31 +0000 sickmagazine.org https://sickmagazine.org/reading-list READING &amp; LISTENING LIST Essays, fiction, non-fiction, memoir, poetry, podcasts, and zines relating to the body, illness, pain, disability, trauma, and more. Memoir The Undying by Anne Boyer The Tiger and The Cage by Emma Bolden The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang Constellations by Sinéad Gleeson I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley Notes Made While Falling by Jenn Ashworth Happening by Annie Ernaux Inferno by Catherine Cho Sick by Porochista Khakpour Your Voice In My Head by Emma Forrest Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy Notes to Self by Emilie Pine Ask Me About My Uterus by Abby Norman Hunger by Roxane Gay Hysteria by Katerina Bryant Places I’ve Taken My Body: Essays by Molly McCully Brown The Shapeless Unease by Samantha Harvey Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick Codependence by Amy Long The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson Non Fiction/essay Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Pain Woman Takes Your Keys by Sonya Huber Crippled by Frances Ryan Invisible by Michele Lent Hirsch Doing Harm by Maya Dusenbery Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer Health Justice Now by Timothy Faust Exposure by Olivia Sudjic Disability Aesthetics by Tobin Anthony Siebers Bodyminds reimagined by Sami Schalk What Her Body Thought by Susan Griffin The Rejected Body by Susan Wendell When The Sick Rule The World by Dodie Bellamy The Body in Pain by Elaine Scarry Brilliant Imperfection by Eli Clare Sick Woman Theory by Johanna Hedva Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag Life in the sick-room by Harriet Martineau The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison Conditioner by Liz Barr Body Work by Melissa Febos How to do Nothing by Jenny Odell My Body Keeps Your Secrets by Lucia Osborne-Crowley The Way We Survive by Catriona Morton Poor Little Sick Girls by Ione Gamble&nbsp; Anthologies Criptiques edited by Caitlin Wood A Queer Anthology of Sickness published by Pilot Press Cusp: Feminist Writing on Bodies, Myth &amp; Magic published by Ache magazine Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century edited by Alice Wong On Bodies published by 3 of Cups PressOn Being Ill by Virginia Woolf and Audre Lorde (new, collaborative edition featuring various writers) Fiction Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter Want by Lynn Steger Strong All’s Well by Mona Awad My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottesa Moshfegh Please Read This Leaflet Carefully by Karen Havelin The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata Red Clocks by Leni Zumas Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Hotel World by Ali Smith Milk Fed by Melissa Broder&nbsp; Assembly by Natasha Brown Severance by Ling Ma Nervous Systems by Lina Meruane Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters Maps of our Spectacular Bodies by Maddy Mortimer Poetry The Amputee’s Guide to Sex by Jillian Weise Trust Fall by William Gee Gravitas by Amy Berkowitz Who’s Your Daddy by Arisa White Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz Sanatorium by Abi Palmer Rheuma by William Gee In the Sick Hour by Jane Hartshorn &amp; Kaiya Waerea Curses, Curses by Kirstie Millar &amp; Alice Blackstock Metamorphosis by Charlotte Lunn The Relativity of Living Well by Ashna Ali Garments Against Women by Anne Boyer Virgins by Jesse Darling Descriptions by Alec Finlay&nbsp; Shield by Jamie Hale&nbsp; Body Count by Kyla Jamieson Hyperlove by Naomi Morris Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong Zines &amp; Publications Blued, published by Silken Reference Counter Signals 4, published by Other Forms Manifesto: Profitit for Survival by Be Oakley, published by GenderFail Monthly Mail-out, published by Sticky Fingers Publishing Spring 2022 Instalment of Thick Press’ ongoing INQUIRY INTO CARE Trans Masc Studies Volumes 1-3 Transgender Health in the UK: A Primer by o.s. warren Listens No End in Sight - a podcast about life with chronic illness by Brianne Benness&nbsp; POWER NOT PITY - a podcast by Bri M. Down to the Struts - a podcast about disability and design by Qudsiya Naqui Disability Visibility - a podcast by Alice Wong Death Panel -&nbsp;a podcast about the political economy of health by Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant, and Phil Rocco https://sickmagazine.org/contact Sun, 21 May 2023 17:45:31 +0000 sickmagazine.org https://sickmagazine.org/contact CONTACT For all enquiries, email hello (at) sickmagazine.org. Sign up to our mailing list here and follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. <img width="3024" height="3024" width_o="3024" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/04b81fe8f360f239324d21cba885a4165095409a1d0103bc50a8c2df091094f8/IMG_3040-1.jpg" data-mid="179458010" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/04b81fe8f360f239324d21cba885a4165095409a1d0103bc50a8c2df091094f8/IMG_3040-1.jpg" />