ABOUT THE MAG
The Sino diaspora is one of the largest diasporas on the planet. Our mission is to foster community around the creative voices and works of Sino writers and artists, and to create a platform highlighting the concept of diaspora as one that challenges national borders and subverts hierarchies. We are committed to print culture and the materiality of the physical publication. In addition to our print magazine, we host and attend events that connect Sino creatives and other community members across the globe, and spotlight writers and artists from the diaspora on our social media pages.
Sino diasporas are defined as people of ‘Chinese’ background who have some kind of relationship ‘away’ from that background. These ideas are defined as broadly as possible and are rooted in self-determination. This can include people with backgrounds from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and the broader Sinosphere—a cultural-linguistic space transcending national boundaries, where Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, and other Sinitic languages anchor shared and contested identities. We use the word ‘Sino’ because it is expansive, flexible, and encompasses tensions as well as contradictions of identity.
sinθ (Sine Theta) is an international print-based creative arts magazine that connects and empowers members of the Sino diaspora like ourselves. We publish submissions of visual art and literature, and feature interviews with established as well as rising creators alike in the magazine. All contributors to the magazine receive a $10 USD honorarium. We hold an annual writing contest during the summer, and invite celebrated writers as guest judges; winners in fiction and poetry categories receive a monetary prize.
Contributing writers and magazine staff have gone on to be featured in and recognized by the Fine Arts Work Center, Poetry Foundation, Best of the Net, The Best American Poetry, Asian American Writers Workshop, Lambda Literary Award, Pushcart Prize, the Massachusetts Review, Tin House, The White Review, The New Poets Prize, BOAAT, The Offing, Poetry Society of the U.K., Wigleaf Top 50, The Shirley Jackson Awards, Tor.com, Southbank Centre, and more. Our visual art contributors have gone on to be featured in and recognized by the Met, Los Angeles Magazine, MoMA PS1, C33 Gallery, Et Al Gallery, Centre Never Apart, Plain Magazine, Tunis International Feminist Art Festival, the Paris Review, and more.
Since 2016, sinθ has interviewed creatives from the Sino diaspora across a wide spectrum of creative disciplines, ranging across literature, music, visual art, culinary arts, community-based projects, technology and design, and research. We print multiple interviews in each issue, alongside a “student spotlight” feature on student creatives and collectives. Past interviewees or profile subjects have included Laufey, Chen Chen, Rachel Khong, Lucas Sin, Rebecca F. Kuang, Weike Wang, Sally Wen Mao, Andrew Thomas Huang, Mary Jean Chan, K-Ming Chang, Lisa Ko, Larissa Lai, Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe, Yanyi, Chong Yan Chuah, Princess Xixi, Bohan Phoenix, Lan Samantha Chang, Qu Leilei, Wing On Wo & Co., Dr. Joyce Hsiang, Patty Chang, Bolis Pupul, Laure Chan, Madeleine Thien, and many more.
We are currently stocked or have been stocked at a number of physical venues around the globe, including Wing on Wo & Co. in NYC Chinatown, the British Library, Morocco Bound in London, Teabase in Toronto, esea contemporary in Manchester, the Kenyon College library, Oxford's Bodleian library. We have also tabled at various worldwide book fairs and conferences, including but not limited to Kuala Lumpur Art Book Fair, UK National Poetry Library showcases, Asian American Literature Festival in Washington D.C., Hong Kong ZINE COOP showcase, London Radical Bookfair, Side Step Zine Fair, Oxford Bodleian Libraries' Zine Fair, North Carolina State University's Patchworks Asian art showcase, and Common Roots festival by North Carolina Asian Americans Together. If you are interested in making an institutional or bulk order of our magazine, or would like us to attend an upcoming event as a vendor, please contact us via email.
We see our project as part of a larger network, building community within our diasporas and fostering solidarity and community with other diasporic, migrant, cross-cultural, and marginalized peoples. If our mission speaks to you or your organization, and you are interested in collaborating with us, please reach out to sinethetamag@gmail.com.
Copies of sinθ can be purchased on Blurb and in selected bookstores; digital versions of older issues can be purchased on Gumroad.
sinθ magazine is grateful for the support of its patrons, without which it would not be here today.
With thanks to: Acorn, Adeline, alice, Alison Tam, Aloïs, Amy Fan, Anna Lee, Anny, Arron Luo, Audrey, bidhya limbu, Burgi Zenhaeusern, Carina Minami, Caroline Mao, Catrina Wang, Celeste, Chansol Park, Chelsea Shieh, Chen Chen, Christina C, Claire Soh, daisuke shen, Erika, Erin C, Fecal M, Fei Li, Francesca Fierro, Giorno Giovanna, Haolun Xu, Ian, Jason Li, Jenny Xu, jess, Jonathan Pan, Josh, Joyce, Joyce Lu, juliana, Kang, Kevin Chu, Kevin Geng, Kevin Lu, Kit Xiong, Kwan-Ann Tan, Lily Zhou, Lio Min, Melissa Wang, moss, Olive Y, Qianze Zhang, riveronfire, Robbin Gan, Rowan Wilson, Samuel Stark, Sharon Wood, shen yuan, Sheng Kao, soramiyas, Suyeon Hong, t.n, Tommy Kha, vicki huang, Whit, Zhanduo Xie, Zoe Ong.
If you are interested in joining this list and financially supporting sinθ magazine, you can do so for as little as $1 USD a month. Visit our Patreon to learn more.