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Announcing Half Mystic's Nominees for the 2021 Pushcart Prize

Announcing Half Mystic's Nominees for the 2021 Pushcart Prize

Half Mystic began as a grand experiment in championing work that lives between literature & song, hope & fight, horizon & sea.

Announcements, Music, LiteratureTopaz WintersNovember 9, 2020Sammie Downing, Marie Conlan, Matt Mitchell, Yejin Suh, Jonah Howell

"If the body remembers everything, she happened." From the Editor, Giveaway, & the Launch of Marie Conlan's Say Mother Say Hand

"If the body remembers everything, she happened." From the Editor, Giveaway, & the Launch of Marie Conlan's Say Mother Say Hand

What a space we made for ourselves last night—& when I say space I hope you hear salvation. You’re the best love we know, dear songbirds.

From the Editor, Announcements, Gatherings, Literature, MusicTopaz WintersApril 19, 2020Marie Conlan, Shawnie Hamer, Topaz Winters, Sammie Downing, Gabrielle Joy Lessans

Launch of Marie Conlan's Say Mother Say Hand on IG Live: See You There?

Launch of Marie Conlan's Say Mother Say Hand on IG Live: See You There?

Please join us at Half Mystic’s latest gathering this coming Saturday, April 18, 2020, at 9 P.M. EST.

Gatherings, Literature, Music, AnnouncementsTopaz WintersApril 11, 2020Marie Conlan, Sammie Downing, Gabrielle Joy Lessans, Shawnie Hamer

From the Editor, Book Launch, & Giveaway: Sammie Downing's The Family That Carried Their House on Their Backs

From the Editor, Book Launch, & Giveaway: Sammie Downing's The Family That Carried Their House on Their Backs

Step into this House with us. Warm your hands on the fire. We’ve been waiting for you for so long.

From the Editor, Announcements, Literature, Music, GatheringsTopaz WintersDecember 18, 2019Sammie Downing

"Memory is fantasy; what we carry with us has little to do with fact, everything to do with feeling." (Sammie Downing on The Family That Carried Their House on Their Backs)

"Memory is fantasy; what we carry with us has little to do with fact, everything to do with feeling." (Sammie Downing on The Family That Carried Their House on Their Backs)

There is magic in the dissonance.

Literature, Music, Personal EssayGuestDecember 14, 2019Sammie Downing

"I wanted this novella to feel like a story passed down for generations until the truth of what happened begins to feel like myth." (An Interview With Sammie Downing)

"I wanted this novella to feel like a story passed down for generations until the truth of what happened begins to feel like myth." (An Interview With Sammie Downing)

Some of the first sounds we hear are our parents’ voices, our family’s songs, and even years later their music can carry us home.

Interviews, Literature, MusicKate WilsonDecember 8, 2019Mark Mayer, Sammie Downing, Feist, Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Florence + the Machine, Wye Oak, Phoebe Bridgers, Choir Boy, Charlie Cunningham

Introducing The Family That Carried Their House on Their Backs

Introducing The Family That Carried Their House on Their Backs

We hope you’ll join us in stepping into a new fairytale. Welcome to the clearing—to the wildness—to The Family.

Literature, Music, AnnouncementsTopaz WintersOctober 18, 2019Sammie Downing