(ANNOUNCEMENT) AFK: a new SPAM reading series in 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 the first in the series, AFK #1!

SUNDAY 2nd MARCH

7-9pm (doors at 6.30)

The Doublet Upstairs Bar, Glasgow

FREE

THE LINE UP:

Anjeli Caderamanpulle has had work published by SPAM, Gutter, embassy gallery and the Edwin Morgan Trust. Her pamphlet Boys came out with Spam in 2020.Please sign up at the eventbrite link in bio!

Gabriel Levine Brislin is an artist and writer based in Edinburgh. He co-organises the Experimental Writing Group at Embassy Gallery.

Iain Morrison is a poet and curator based in Edinburgh. His Vagabond Voices collection I’m a Pretty Circler was shortlisted for the 2019 Saltire Poetry Prize. Iain studied music at University of Cambridge. His practice moves between artforms, is often collaborative, and often ends up in a gallery.

gentian rhosa is an artist and writer engaging with sound, ecology, death studies and affect theory to explore love, grief and interconnection from within late stage capitalism.

Brogan Tracy is a Glasgow- based writer who is currently completing her BA in English & Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde.  Her work centres around autofiction, gender & queerness.

Access: The Doublet upstairs bar and toilets are not wheelchair accessible. Seating is first come, first served, but if you have access needs for seating, email us at spamzine.editors@gmail.com and we will reserve.

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Published: 25/02/2025