Preorders are Open for Issue IX: Synaesthesia

Half Mystic Journal returns in full colour—welcome, dear songbirds, to the preorder period for the synaesthesia issue. Issue IX showcases the blue undressing of voice—the song-scent wafting on wind—the tongues of memory & light. Examining what it means to be fully present in the world, the new issue flirts with the corporeal, sings as it stings.

Issue IX: Synaesthesia features the voices of Sara Elkamel, J.I. Kleinberg, Paola Bennet, Lucy Hannah Ryan, Caroline Grand-Clement, myself, Kirsten Shu-ying Chen, Ryan Griffith, Erin Jin Mei O’Malley, Grace Qi Song, Sunny Vuong, Anne Kwok, Janelle Cordero, & more. It comes out on July 28, 2021, & preorders are open today!

As always, paperback preorders come with a free PDF copy, & worldwide shipping on everything in our shop is free for orders over $60. (Treat yourself or someone you love to a summer book haul—or buy multiple copies & read together!) If you’d like to purchase Half Mystic at your brick-&-mortar bookstore, take a look at our Stockists page to see where you can find us & request for your local shop to carry our publications.

Submissions for Issue IX are now closed—if you submitted within the last week of our reading period, you’ll receive a final decision via email by June 12th. Thank you, thank you, thank you for trusting us with your luminous work. We’re here because of you & for you.

Synaesthesia is a song tethered to space, shocked in the present tense, undelicious as longing & surreal in fever pitch. This is a story about touch which means hurt, hurt which means salt, salt which means movement, movement which means joy, joy which—of course & always—means music. Preorder your copy as a new way of seeing. An exercise in being here, right here, as the senses wake to themselves.