Photograph courtesy of Sweater Eyes
Sunflower Skins was birthed of Britani Sadovski’s fantastic delirium in the summer of 2005. Beginning as a small cut-and-paste project on her bedroom floor, Britani self-publishes Sunflower Skins chapbooks of stories and fragments and has distributed them both professionally and guerrilla-style across North America. She works primarily with her partner Thom Bacchus Roland, and has collaborated with various other writers and artists, including Sweater Eyes, Vagrancy Films, Grimbrothers Entertainment, and England’s Briton Self. Britani has a B.A. in English Literature from Huron University College, and her style is heavily influenced by poetry, rhizomes, and visual presentation, as well as horror films, comic books, and various branches of philosophy. Currently she is working on multimedia projects for larger texts. In April 2012 Sunflower Skins will once again have a booth at London, Ontario’s Shock Stock; items available include chapbooks, buttons, t-shirts, prints, and plush toys.
Distributors for Sunflower Skins have included Attic Books, Speed City Records, and Hanger 18 in London, Fanfare Books in Stratford, Bad Monster Films in Saskatoon, and Atomic Tattoos in Florida. Also check coffee houses, library books, menus, street corners, and all places random; you might find one there, as well as in many zine libraries all over the world. If you would like to help distribute, please email for details. All materials are subject to copyright laws.
“Remembering” & “Acts of Omission” was chosen as Broken Pencil’s Zine of the Month for October 2008; read the review here. Paradise Within received Honourable Mention for Work of a Very High Order in the Lillian Kroll Prizes for Creative Writing 2009.
Email: sunflowerskins@gmail.com
Books:
- The Continuing Saga of the Swamp Thing: Amongst the Elephant Ears [2010]
- The Future of Bulimic Beluga Whales, 2nd Ed. [2010]
- The Briton Self Essays, 2nd Ed. [2008]
- Re-membering & Acts of Omission [2008]
- Paradise Within [2007]
- Thief [2007]
- My Own Modern Love-Letter [2006]
- The Briton Self Essays, 1st Ed. [2006]
- The Future of Bulimic Beluga Whales [2006]
- Eschatology [2005]
- Sunflower Skins [2005]
