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In connection with the Editorial Fellowship program at A Public Space, we are pleased to announce an open call for a special portfolio in the magazine to be edited by Ruby Wang.

July 5, 2022

We're pleased to announce the 2022 A Public Space Writing Fellows.

May 31, 2022

"New voices and experiences are necessary to move literature forward." —Ruby Wang

March 3, 2022

"Mona’s business will be unfinished for a long time. In this story and maybe the next, she won't find resolution." —Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

February 2, 2022 by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

"In the Mi Jin Kim universe, morality is frighteningly relative, and I like “Pocket Money” as preliminary instructions for reading her work." —Laura Preston

February 2, 2022 byLaura Preston

"I admit I have the blessing and the curse of being an extremely literal reader, but Kiik’s work overwrites those parts of my senses that are too much to-the-letter—his work helps me deviate, which is to say, it makes me a better reader and editor." —Megan Cummins

February 2, 2022 by Megan Cummins

Stories Out of School is an annual flash-fiction contest created by the Academy for Teachers to honor "the most fascinating, difficult, and important job on the planet."

January 24, 2022

We are pleased to announce that applications will open on March 1, 2022, for the 2022 A Public Space Writing Fellowships.

January 24, 2022

We are pleased to announce that applications for the 2022 Editorial Fellowship, a program for aspiring editors, will open on January 3, 2022.

January 1, 2022

Anne Elliott on the poetry of Capital by Mark Hage.

September 20, 2021

“What I didn’t know is that you then go on to become part of a vibrant literary community, which meant I had mentors and new friends I could reach out to; in the many lonely hours of revising a book, this meant the world to me.” —Jai Chakrabarti

September 3, 2021

This September, when Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li is published by A Public Space Books, join us for an encore book club to read Tolstoy's epic novel.

July 28, 2021

Valeriya Kipnis, recipient of the 2021 Bette Howland Nonfiction Prize, speaks with 2021 Editorial Fellow Miguel Coronado about narrative voices, émigré writers, and how a tennis coach influenced her writing.

July 26, 2021 by Miguel Coronado

We are pleased to share Valeriya Kipnis's "Little Yellow Pills," the 2021 recipient of the Bette Howland Nonfiction Prize.

July 26, 2021 by Valeriya Kipnis

In connection with the Editorial Fellowship program at A Public Space, we are pleased to announce an open call for a special portfolio in the magazine to be edited by Miguel Coronado.

July 23, 2021

Get to know the author Paul Lisicky, who will lead us in reading Qiu Miaojin’s Notes of A Crocodile in the July edition of #APStogether.

July 13, 2021

“I really do believe in the power of a drawing to ignite the imagination.” —Annie Coggan

June 10, 2021

"Yours, I think, shall forever be, for me, inextricable from a certain song of snow and wander." —Alexander Booth

June 7, 2021

"Paintings do age, like people, but more slowly. Their meaning ages too." —Anne Elliott

May 20, 2021

"I don’t get fussy about completism—in fact I think I actively want to miss things..." —Elisa Gabbert

May 7, 2021