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Please submit only one (1) story at a time. Additional submissions will be returned unread. Only previously unpublished work will be considered. Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but if your piece is accepted elsewhere we ask that you please withdraw it from our system. Novellas and novel excerpts are welcome. Translations are welcome; it is the translator's responsibility to secure rights to the work before it is submitted.
We suggest reading recent issues of A Public Space to acquaint yourself with work the magazine has published. Subscriptions are available here. We have also made a selection of pieces from the magazine available as part of our Public Access series, including:
“Woman Sleeping” by Teolinda Gersão, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
“The Dead Fish Museum” by Charles D’Ambrosio
“The Funeral” by Mahreen Sohail
We aim to reply to submissions within four months. If it has been more than four months and you have not yet received a response, we will be happy to reply to a query regarding the status of your submission.