Mission

A Public Space is an independent nonprofit publisher of an eponymous award-winning literary, arts, and culture magazine, and A Public Space Books. Under the direction of founding editor Brigid Hughes since 2006, it has been our mission to seek out overlooked and unclassifiable work, and to publish writing from beyond established confines. Subscribe today, and join the conversation.

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Contact

Please send all queries to:
A Public Space
PO Box B
New York, NY 10159
(718) 858-8067
general@apublicspace.org

Subscriptions

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A Public Space magazine is distributed by Disticor and PGW.

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Submissions

A Public Space welcomes submissions of fiction, essays, poetry, as well as graphic and hybrid work. The next submission period will be January 1, 2022 – January 31, 2022. Submission may be mailed to the PO Box above or submitted online through our Submittable page, where guidelines are also available. We are not currently accepting submissions for A Public Space Books. Please sign up for our newsletter to receive updates on submission periods.

A Public Space Fellowships

A Public Space offers three writing fellowships annually to fiction and nonfiction writers who have not yet published a book-length work. Fellows are selected through an open application. You can read about the 2021 Writing Fellows here. Applications for the 2022 fellowships will be accepted March 1 - March 31, 2022, and you can find guidelines here.

A Public Space offers an editorial fellowship annually to aspiring editors. Fellows are selected through an open application each winter. More information about the editorial fellowship program is available here. Details about applying for the 2023 fellowship will be announced in the fall here.

Volunteer and Internship Opportunities

A Public Space accepts applications for summer internships. To be considered for a summer internship, please apply by March 15. The internship program provides practical experience in critical reading, research, copyediting, and fact-checking; marketing and publicity, including social media and events; and an overview of an independent nonprofit literary organization as well as an introduction to the publishing community. Applications can be found on our Submittable page.

Partnerships

A Public Space has partnered with Graywolf Press to publish books by contributors to the magazine, including: Karate Chop (2015), So Much for That Winter (2016), and Mirror, Shoulder, Signal (2018) by Dorthe Nors; Cities I’ve Never Lived In (2016) by Sara Majka; The Complete Ballet (2017) by John Haskell; and A Lucky Man (2018) by Jamel Brinkley.