(ANNOUNCEMENT): GLITCHES: A hybrid series of physical publications

This new series of physical publications at SPAM, headed by editors Kirsty Dunlop & Maya Uppal gravitates towards work that resists set and singular genre, form, material shape and definition to revel in the messiness and dance of the glitch. Here is a space where writing can overflow, and embrace its intrinsic hybridity, where poetry can meet prose, visuals can interject into language, sound can slip into print, and the cross-disciplinary takes centre stage. We are open to projects that don’t fit into a standard size, imagining interactive books, overflowing poetics, fictional essaying, transmedial journeys or text and design that deliberately shapes and expands the material object of the book. 

In a text we love, Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto by Legacy Russell, she speaks of the glitch as a failure to function which is to be embraced: ‘As glitched bodies travel outward through every space, we affirm and celebrate the infinite failure of arrival at any place.’ We embrace this emergence as it collides across identities, collaborations, words and cross-medium journeys. In classic SPAM terrain, we list some generative concepts below for your imaginings: 

books that bend, break, breathe / WEIRD orientations / frustrations / Away from Keyboard excursions /  glitchful glimmerings / atrocity exhibitions / digital skin / politic via play / critical fabulation / refusal / failure as a tool / saturation of the senses / messy words / interactive print objects / form resistance / chaos satire / art books / book objects / anti commodification / dances between pamphlets and collections / trembling spaces and gaps /  game texts / unstable word counts / transmedial melodies / design that experiments and swerves / active essaying / noise / archives / ornamentation / fictional activism / fictional internets / hypertextual weaving across materials / multi-person, object, animal, plant, digital collaborations / writing that has emerged seemingly by accident? / writing that thinks and asks / the body becoming / slippery terrains / the post post post (infinite?) internet / fanfic futures / troubling categories / uneasy nuances / books as sculptures, characters, choreographies / books that can be torn apart / non performances / internet histories and warped time / disputation of templates of creative practice / a commitment to fucking with language and expectations / a commitment to the ridiculous / a commitment to anti-automation / dreams for different realities  / dreams for different forms / works that could never possibly be fully realised except in some alternative reality / extensions overlapping / speaking the language of disintegration / intertextual emergences /  desire!!!

We are announcing this series ahead of the shortly upcoming Season 1 (stay tuned!) which we have commissioned from a writer who has crafted a  hybrid work that we believe sets the precedent for what we are looking for in the series. Season 2 will also be commissioned and following that, we will be open for submissions to the series, likely late 2026/early 2027. As we embark on this endeavour to work closely with writers on these adventurous projects (separate to our poetry pamphlet series and individual collections), we want to give space and time to those who who may already be traversing these realms to polish their pieces or indeed to begin exploring ideas not yet fully envisioned. Stay up to date with us @spamzine or join our Mailing List at spamzine.co.uk to be the first to hear our call for submissions, where we’ll outline specific criteria and you can get your hands on future publications that are part of the series.

For further information in the meantime, please email us at spamzine.editors@gmail.com.

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Published: 09/03/2026