Announcing Half Mystic’s Nominees for the 2026 Pushcart Prize

Our Pushcart Prize selections are landmarks & lighthouses; they are wryly tragic & agonisingly gentle; they live with one foot in the ancestral & one in the visionary.

Announcements, Literature, MusicTopaz WintersNovember 25, 2025Natalye Childress, Sophie Crocker, Adam Falkner, Rita Mookerjee, Jordan Silversmith

From the Editor: Willows Wake and Walk Away

As it leads you through a world where healing moves with the patience of river water, may Willows Wake & Walk Away offer you a place to rest, to reckon, & to rise once more.

Announcements, From the Editor, Literature, MusicTopaz WintersNovember 18, 2025Haley Wooning, Kylie Ayn Yockey, Liam Xavier, Libby Jenner

Introducing Vesper

Bring us the dream you can’t wake from, & let us hold it under a while longer.

Announcements, MusicTopaz WintersAugust 18, 2025

From the Editor: The Sevdah Issue

The Sevdah issue shines best in its sideways revelations, exposing what we’ve always wanted in the shape of its absence.

Preorders are Open for Opus II, Issue II: Sevdah

A damask veil. A clipped swan’s wing. A memory of a late-night lake with a long-gone lover, when the sky & water turned the same colour & met at the edge of the world.

Announcements, MusicTopaz WintersMay 28, 2025Adam Falkner, Rita Mookerjee, Natalie Marino, Kathleen A. Wakefield, Angela Sucich, Jordan Silversmith, Jared Povanda, Lee Anderson, Sophie Crocker, Dontay M. Givens II, Nick Visconti, Amber Cecile Brodie, Sjafril

Everything a Little Mystic

The Long Crescendo is a year-long physical & digital celebration of Half Mystic’s histories & futures, the promises borne of & made to the world we’re spinning together.

Announcements, Gatherings, MusicTopaz WintersApril 18, 2025

Announcing Half Mystic’s Nominees for the 2025 Pushcart Prize

Each of these pieces pulls us into sharp-eyed focus, reminds us why we’re here & who we’re becoming. Best of luck to our nominees. Here’s to possibility.

Announcements, Music, LiteratureTopaz WintersNovember 28, 2024pushcart, xochi quetzali cartland, Grace Kwan, Aurora Shimshak, Maggie Warren, Suzannah Watchorn

Introducing Sevdah

In Issue II of our second opus, desire is holy & heavy as the still before the train comes. Moor us in the unquenchable. We want a begging to believe in.

Music, AnnouncementsTopaz WintersJuly 18, 2024

From the Editor: The Presto Issue

I’m inclined to think life or thoughts or ideas aren’t a blur of movement so much as a collage of image and voice: layered, constant, revved, and singing.

Preorders Are Open for Opus II, Issue I: Presto

Issue XI lives on the currency of old speed & new dreams, & right at the moment when you think you’ve learned its dance, it dares you to circle back & look again.

Announcements, MusicTopaz WintersApril 28, 2024Will Cordeiro, Maggie Warren, E.B. Schnepp, xochi quetzali cartland, Grace Kwan, Suzannah Watchorn, Abigail Chang, Jesica Davis, Hannah Yerington, Ivi Hua, Annione Ryan Platten, Morphic Rooms