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These July days we are either on the beach, or at our desks dreaming about it. Our new collection of features from the archive is also in a summer mood: from beach vacations to seaside journeys, these pieces are unlocked and open to all to read for the coming weeks.
July 20, 2018
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We are thrilled to share the news that A Public Space has been named one of three inaugural winners of the Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes, in recognition of "superb publishing, advocacy of writers, and importance to the literary community." The Prize unfolds over several years, and is an extraordinary opportunity for us to undertake new efforts to support writers. We are enormously grateful to the Whiting Foundation for their generosity and vision.
June 27, 2018
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Brigid Hughes, founding editor of the independent literary magazine A Public Space, announced today that Lauren Cerand will join the magazine, effective immediately, as Marketing and Development Director...
March 22, 2018
Writing Fellows
We are pleased to announce the 2018 A Public Space Fellows.
February 21, 2018
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A Public Space seeks a Marketing and Development Director.
January 5, 2018
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We are thrilled to announce APS Books, a new, independent imprint at A Public Space that mirrors the efforts of the magazine. With launch titles by Bette Howland, Sally Potter, Dorothea Tanning, and more.
October 16, 2017
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We are pleased to share Rebekka Rafnsdóttir's essay "A Girl on the Hunt," the inaugural recipient of the Bette Howland Nonfiction Prize. The prize, given annually to a student at the New School in New York City, was established by Honor Moore, who first met Bette Howland in 1977: "In the winter of 1977, I went to the MacDowell Colony for the first time. I had just had my first work—a memoir-as-play called Mourning Pictures—go public on Broadway.... The play had been a hit in a Massachusetts summer theater and closed quickly in New York, and though it was to be published in an anthology, I was having a hard time emerging from what was an up-down whiplash experience. At MacDowell I met a woman writer about eight years older than me—at the time, she seemed much older!—who had just published a memoir of her time in a mental hospital—the book was called W-3. We became friends—long talks in what I remember as her very dark writing studio—her typewriter in a pool of light. She was the first woman writer to encourage me."
October 16, 2017 byRebekka Rafnsdóttir
Writing Fellows
**The A Public Space Fellowships will be announced on our News page on Wednesday, February 21.**
We are pleased to announce that applications will open on September 15 for the 2018 Public Space Fellowships.
September 8, 2017
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A conversation on editing with Emerging Writer Fellow Jai Chakrabarti and his mentors, Mary-Beth Hughes and Elizabeth Gaffney.
July 20, 2017
Writing Fellows
We are pleased to announce our 2017 Emerging Writer Fellows.
February 15, 2017
Writing Fellows
We are pleased to announce that applications will open on October 1 for our 2017 Emerging Writer Fellowships.
September 22, 2016