AFK: a new SPAM reading series at The Doublet, Glasgow ⌨️💋👾

‘I’ll generally be AFK (away from keyboard), though I plan on hitting an Internet cafe on Thursday’, said a random gamer about twenty years ago. In Glitch Feminism (2020), Legacy Russell argues that there is no longer an IRL, but instead the better acronym for offline life is AFK with ‘one continuous self…in a continual narrative of daily living and human existence.’

...& so we present in-person AFK readings as part of a new series in collaboration with The Doublet, free and open to all, with SPAM writers both old and new! ft. a hand made pamphlet available with the readers’ work on the night.

Join us for AFK #3

Our new reading series is hitting May headlong with an extra special transatlantic visit from the poet Peter Gizzi.

7-9pm (doors at 6.30), 18th May
@thedoubletbar Upstairs Bar, Glasgow
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@heatherrankin1 is a creative writing student and writer from Glasgow. She works in both experimental prose and poetry; Having had work published on The Word’s Faire and shortlisted for The Stinging Fly. Her upcoming doctoral research begins this autumn.

@samrodilosso is an undergraduate studying English Literature at American University in Washington DC, is currently studying abroad at the University of Edinburgh, and recently finished his first manuscript entitled Fuse Box. He was born and raised on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.

@mymothercalls (she/they) is a poet from Hong Kong. Her debut collection, The Tattoo Collector (Nine Arches Press, 2024), is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her pamphlet, Tapping at Glass (Verve, 2023), was shortlisted for The Kavya Prize and named one of The Poetry Society’s Books of the Year. In her work, she explores the intersection between the personal and political, land and body.

@p.g.gizzi is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Fierce Elegy (2023), Now It’s Dark (2020), and Archeophonics, a finalist for the National Book Award (2016), all from Wesleyan. In 2020 Carcanet brought out Sky Burial: New and Selected Poems and in 2024 Penguin published an edition of Fierce Elegy which was awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize. He is currently a Senior Global Fellow at the University of St. Andrews. He teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst.