PROJECT | SERPENTINE LAUNCHES SECOND EDITION OF THE READER
Serpentine is pleased to present the second annual issue of the Serpentine Reader, Issue 02: I Hope This Finds You Well, a new collection of essays, experimental guides, critiques, fiction, and poetry that reimagines the genre of self-help amid collapsing systems and intensifying global crisis.
Contributors include: Stephanie Wambugu, Eliot Haworth, Alex Quicho, Anahid Nersessian, Joycelyn Longdon, Asa Seresin, David Lisbon, and Ebun Sodipo. With motivational stickers designed by Alake Schilling.
Committed to slow publishing and long-form inquiry, the yearly publication provides space for deep research, reflection and creative exploration across diverse literary formats. The publication brings together established and emerging voices to explore new modes of storytelling and critical engagement. It launches in The Magazine on 9 March at a special event with readings from contributors.
Following Issue 01: Circulation, which explored the movement of water, bodies, images and power, Issue 02 turns to a familiar phrase, I hope this finds you well, and asks what “wellness” now means in a world that feels increasingly unwell.
As care becomes increasingly commodified and automated, flattened into email greetings, corporate mindfulness seminars and chatbot companions, Issue 02 examines how “being well” is performed, managed and sold back to us, even as collective conditions deteriorate. In a time of hyper-connection and deepening loneliness, self-help mutates into something more collective, more desperate and perhaps more mythic: stories we tell ourselves (and sell to each other) about survival, worth and possibility.
Monday 9 March 2026, 6pm
The Magazine, Serpentine North
Places are limited, please register your interest: [email protected]
