A Public Space

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title	A Public Space
image_file	A Public Space (magazine) first issue.jpg
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image_caption	First issue
editor	Brigid Hughes
category	Literary magazine
frequency	Triannual
founded	2006
firstdate
company	A Public Space Literary Projects, Inc.
country	United States
based	Brooklyn, New York
language	English
website
issn	1558-965X
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A Public Space is an independent nonprofit publisher of an eponymous literary and arts magazine and book imprint. The organization's magazine, A Public Space, is a triannual, English-language literary journal based in Brooklyn, New York. First circulated in April 2006, A Public Space publishes fiction, poetry, essays, and visual art. The magazine's Focus portfolios have examined the writing of a different country each issue, covering the literature of Japan, Russia, and Peru in Issues 1-3. In 2018, A Public Space launched its book imprint, A Public Space Books, which publishes around three titles a year.

History and profile

The magazine was founded in 2006 by Brigid Hughes, former Executive Editor of The Paris Review. The magazine is published triannually.

Authors such as Marilynne Robinson, Jesmyn Ward, Haruki Murakami, Charles D'Ambrosio, Rick Moody, Anna Deavere Smith, Kelly Link, Sreyash Sarkar, Daniel Alarcón, Juan Manuel Chavez, Santiago Roncagliolo, Miguel Gutierrez, Jillian Weise, Keith Lee Morris, Jonathan Lethem, Martha Cooley, Anne Carson, Delia Falconer, David Levi Strauss, Nam Le, Ander Monson, Maile Chapman, Antoine Wilson, Kimiko Hahn, and Garth Greenwell have all contributed.

Awards

A Public Space was named Best New Literary Magazine by The Village Voice in December 2006. In 2011, Brigid Hughes received the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing for "her commitment to quality literature and for her larger purpose." In 2018, the magazine received the inaugural Whiting Literary Magazine Prize in the print category for its "gorgeously curated collection we experience as a cabinet of wonders."

In 2023, two authors from A Public Space Books received national and international recognition. Ada Zhang was named a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree for her debut story collection The Sorrows of Others (A Public Space Books), and Arinze Ifeakandu was awarded the Dylan Thomas Prize for his debut story collection God's Children Are Little Broken Things (A Public Space Books).

References

References

1. "Top 50 Literary Magazine". EWR.
2. Maher {{!}}, John. "A Public Space Branches Into Book Publishing".
3. Zachary Petit. (May 12, 2010). "12 Literary Journals Your Future Agent is Reading". Writer's Digest.
4. (May 1, 2007). "Best magazines of 2006". Library Journal.
5. "Brooklyn literary magazine transitions to a new era {{!}} Brooklyn Daily Eagle".
6. "Journal of the Week: A Public Space".
7. [https://www.whiting.org/writers/whiting-literary-magazine-prizes/current Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes]
8. Andrews, Meredith. (2023-03-27). "The National Book Foundation Announces its 2023 5 Under 35 Honorees".
9. (2023-05-11). "Arinze Ifeakandu has won the 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize.".
10. "Arinze Ifeakandu wins Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize 2023 for 'exhilarating' debut God's Children Are Little Broken Things".

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