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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 Lydia Mathis.

July 5, 2023

We're pleased to announce the 2023 A Public Space Writing Fellows.

June 1, 2023

We are pleased to share Fletcher Huntley's essay "Why Have You Forsaken Me?" as the 2023 recipient of the Bette Howland Nonfiction Prize.

May 1, 2023 by Fletcher Huntley

The 2023 A Public Space Editorial Fellow is Lydia Mathis.

March 6, 2023

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."

February 6, 2023

We are pleased to announce that applications will open on March 1, 2023, for the 2023 A Public Space Writing Fellowships.

January 26, 2023

December 1, 2022

A conversation on the art of the editorial dialogue, part of the 2022 Brooklyn Book Festival.

November 29, 2022 by Megan Cummins

We are pleased to share Charlotte Slivka's essay "March 12" as the 2022 recipient of the Bette Howland Nonfiction Prize.

September 6, 2022 by Charlotte Slivka

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