About
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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Founding Benefactor
Deborah Pease (1943-2014)
Editor
Brigid Hughes
Contributing Editors
Yiyun Li
Annie Coggan
Martha Cooley
Edwin Frank
Mark Hage
John Haskell
Fiona Maazel
Ayana Mathis
Robert Sullivan
Antoine Wilson
International Contributing Editors
A. N. Devers (England)
Dorthe Nors (Denmark)
Natasha Randall (England)
Motoyuki Shibata (Japan)
Board of Directors
Katherine Bell
Charles Buice
Elizabeth Gaffney
Brigid Hughes
Yiyun Li
Robert Sullivan
Programs Manager
Aditi Bhattacharjee
Communications Director and Editorial Associate
Alexandra Tilden
Poetry Editor
Brett Fletcher Lauer
Advisory Board
Robert Casper
Fiona McCrae
James Meader
Editors at Large
Elizabeth Gaffney
Megan Cummins
Associate Editors
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
Sidik Fofana
Taylor Michael
Assistant Editors
Miguel Coronado
Lydia Mathis
Editorial Fellows
Louis Harnett O’Meara
Maurice Rodriguez
Senior Copy Editor
Anne McPeak
Readers
Maria Catalina Heitmann
Hristo Karastoyanov
Max Keller
Meagan Washington
Cover Design
Janet Hansen
Interior Design
Francesca Richer
Publicity for A Public Space Books
Kait Astrella
History
2020
Tolstoy Together, a virtual book club to read War and Peace with Yiyun Li, launches on March 18, 2020. The experience—an 85-day collective journey through an epic novel with thousands of readers across six continents—would later be compiled in the book Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li. APS Together, a new series of virtual book clubs, launches in June 2020.
2018
A Public Space Books is established.
A Public Space is awarded the inaugural Literary Magazine Prize from the Whiting Foundation for “stand[ing] as a paradigm of what literary magazines can be.”
Editor Brigid Hughes and A Public Space receive the Colophon Award for Paradigm Independent Publishing from CLMP (Community of Literary Magazines and Presses).
The Deborah Pease Prize is established to honor the legacy of A Public Space’s founding benefactor.
Jamel Brinkley’s debut story collection, A Lucky Man (A Public Space/Graywolf), is a finalist for the National Book Award.
2012
Graywolf Press announces a partnership with A Public Space to publish books by contributors to the magazine. The titles published through the partnership would include: Karate Chop, So Much for That Winter, and Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors; Cities I’ve Never Lived In by Sara Majka; The Complete Ballet by John Haskell; and A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley.
2011
Editor Brigid Hughes receives the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Editing.
Monkey Business, an annual anthology edited by Motoyuki Shibata showcasing contemporary Japanese literature, which developed from a portfolio in the debut issue of A Public Space, debuts. A Public Space would serve as the co-publisher for seven editions of Monkey Business. In 2020, the publication would relaunch as Monkey: New Writing from Japan.
A Public Space is a proud member of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses.
A Public Space is grateful for the support of the following organizations:
New York State
Council on the Arts
National Endowment
for the Arts
NYC Cultural Affairs
Amazon Literary
Partnership
The Literary Arts
Emergency Fund