Join us for the launch of BRACKISH a zine of experiments in translation and poetry, with readings from Liv Aldridge, Endija Lukstina & Sophie Collins.

Brackish is a zine of interviews and literature in translation in a DIY format. In one half of this first-ever issue of the project, you'll find interviews with Latvian poets about portraying gender and queerness when writing in Latvian – a language with an embedded gender binary. In the second half are interviews with full-time storytellers and archivists from county Småland in Sweden about folk legends, stories and the work of securing intangible cultural heritage.

Liv Aldridge is a Swedish poet living in Scotland. She had a poem published in the spring issue of Gutter Magazine, and her poetry chapbook BAD AIR was published by The Braag in November 2023. She is currently working on her Mlitt in Creative writing at the University of Glasgow, and is a member of The Writing Squad since 2022. She is currently writing a creative non-fiction piece about pickling and place.

Endija Lukstina is a Latvian poet based in Glasgow. Her poetry has been published by sincere corkscrew press, Ambient Receiver, Big Red Cat, and Avīzes Nosaukums in Rīga. They are currently studying towards a Masters degree in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow where her writing projects are focused on queerness & androgyny, contemporary & digital forms of spirituality, and she is working on a creative nonfiction project about their grandmother as a swan that lives in her organs.

Sophie Collins is the author of small white monkeys (Book Works, 2017) and Who Is Mary Sue? (Faber, 2018). She is the translator, from the Dutch, of Lieke Marsman's The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes (Pavilion, 2019) and_The Opposite of a Person_ (Daunt, 2022), for which she received the TA First Translation Prize.