Preorders are Open for Issue VIII: Sforzando

For the first time in a year (!), like unbecoming in quick-sharp motion, we’re honoured to open preorders for a new edition of Half Mystic Journal—Issue VIII: Sforzando. The sforzando issue showcases the car-struck dissonance—the backslide into wreckage—the single note of shattering. As the world around us snags on the barbs of sickness, we write a livewire lovesong, a hymn to open wounds. The breakage faces us, & we face the breakage, & neither looks away.

Issue VIII features the voices of Jessie Lynn McMains, Elizabeth Ruth Deyro, Peter Milne Greiner, Gale Acuff, Elijah Mann, myself, C.A Scheherazade, Cindy Xin, Rodney Wilder, Matt Mitchell, Leela Chantrelle, Jonah Howell, Jam Pascual, Hana Widerman, Love In the Ruins, Joan Pope, & more. The issue comes out on July 18, 2020. Paperback ($20) & PDF ($8) editions are available for preorder now.

All paperback orders of Issue VIII: Sforzando come with a free PDF copy of the issue, & worldwide shipping on everything in our shop is free for orders over $60. In the time of coronavirus more than ever, Half Mystic encourages you to buy the issue from your local libraries & independent bookstores. You can check our Wholesale page to see if your local bookstore carries Issue VIII, & if not, they can find information on how to purchase wholesale copies at the same page.

We are still reading submissions for Issue VIII, & we want to accept the miracle of your work. Send us your best writing & music until June 18, 2020. Show us that nothing is empty, even in the wreckage.

Sforzando is an issue of the body & its expulsions, its disasters, its tectonic shifts. Issue VIII understands better than anyone how abruptly & incandescently blood ends up in all the wrong places. This issue is not a crescendo but a car crash, perfect as death, sudden as becoming. It eats its ghosts alive, mouth raw & open. It refuses to blink.

Preorder your copy today: a blessing named breaking, a serenade to spillage.