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APS Together
#APStogether is a series of virtual book clubs that take place on social media. They are free, and open to all. Each session is hosted by a different writer, who selects a book to read together.
January 1, 2021
APS Together
We are delighted to announce a new APS Together season for the new year.
December 22, 2020
Editorial Fellows
"My first encounter with the ciguapa lore was through my own research. I love mythology and fairy tales and wanted to write something in this space. But I thought, where were my monsters, you know?" —Taylor Michael
December 17, 2020
Editorial Fellows
A Public Space is pleased to announce that applications for the 2021 Editorial Fellowship, a program for aspiring editors, will open on January 1.
December 7, 2020
Writing Fellows
We are pleased to announce that applications will open on January 1, 2021, for the 2021 A Public Space Writing Fellowships.
October 29, 2020
Writing Fellows
Katie Foster, Rosemarie Ho, and Crawford Hunt read from their 2020 fellowship stories.
October 29, 2020
Writing Fellows
A Public Space Managing Editor Megan Cummins speaks with the 2020 Writing Fellows—Katie Foster, Rosemarie Ho, and Crawford Hunt—about the art that has sustained them in an unsettled year.
October 26, 2020
Editorial Fellows
"What is an editor's role? How does an editor work with an author to elevate and support their work?" —Taylor Michael
June 11, 2020
Magazine
A Public Space No. 28.5 is a collection of free-access pieces from the magazine's archive, a kind of in-between issue for an in-between time.
May 28, 2020
Magazine
"What would happen if the natural world could strike back?" —Taylor Michael
May 28, 2020
Magazine
"I’ve always been obsessed with stories about failure — myths, folklore, epics, and tragedies —and how these genres think about the fall of man. Is it our choices, chance, or fate that leads us to our lowest points? Just how does this really happen?" —Taylor Michael
May 28, 2020
Magazine
"I’m deeply suspicious of the idea that people or characters can suddenly undergo deep and genuine change, or that radical change and true epiphanies are common, but I am completely faithful to the idea that there are moments when we can be profoundly shaken." —Jamel Brinkley
May 27, 2020
APS Together
We are thrilled also to announce a new set of writer-hosts for a second series of virtual book clubs, #APStogether, free and open to all: Garth Greenwell, Elizabeth McCracken, Claire Messud, Ayana Mathis, Carl Phillips, Ilya Kaminsky, Ed Park, Elliott Holt, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Aimee Bender, and others.
May 21, 2020
Magazine
"[She writes] in the contagious kind of way that should renew anyone's love of language." —Jon McGregor
May 6, 2020
Magazine
“Journey Along the Sea Road” was written in the thirteenth century by an unknown Buddhist monk. In these journals, published in A Public Space No. 26, a nameless traveler charts a course along the Tōkiadō—the great road linking Kyoto to Edo (now Tokyo)—and launches a new genre along the way: the literary travel journal.
April 29, 2020
Magazine
"Some writers keep impersonal offices elsewhere. I work right where I live. Every surface seems my next novel’s table of contents. Being a visual glutton, I want to love everything I see. And this form of happiness is manageable." —Allan Gurganus
April 22, 2020
Magazine
A story of two friends, Bunnatine and Biscuit, "Origin Story" takes place at an abandoned theme park, the Land of Oz—in a world of parallel universes and superhero origin stories; nemeses and levitating waitresses and tabloid reporters.
April 15, 2020