Shopping Cart


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.


Masthead

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

2023

Ada Zhang is named a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree for her debut story collection The Sorrows of Others (A Public Space Books).

Arinze Ifeakandu is awarded the Dylan Thomas Prize for his debut story collection God's Children Are Little Broken Things (A Public Space Books).

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.

2019

The Editorial Fellowship is established.

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.

2017

Dorthe Nors’s novel Mirror, Shoulder Signal (A Public Space/Graywolf), translated from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra, is a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize.
 

2015

A Public Space No. 23, a tenth-anniversary issue of the magazine exploring a generation of women writers and artists, and questions of anonymity and erasure in art, is published. 

2014

The Writing Fellowships—a program to support writers at the start of their careers—is established.

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

2006

The first issue of A Public Space is published.


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

New York State
Council on the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment
for the Arts

NYC Cultural Affairs

NYC Cultural Affairs

Amazon Literary Partnership

Amazon Literary
Partnership

The Literary Arts Emergency Fund

The Literary Arts
Emergency Fund


Sign up for A Public Space's Newsletter