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.
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Half Mystic Radio, Season II, Episode I: How Gold the Flecks of Gold
Feat. Logan February’s “A Monument”, “The Gemini Man”, and “Husband Is the Loveliest Word”, and Love in the Ruins’ “Matt & Polly’s Suite”.
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Introducing Synaesthesia
Welcome to synaesthesia: the blue undressing of voice; the song-scent wafting on wind; the tongues of memory & light.
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From the Editor: The Sforzando Issue
Nothing in this place has ever been abandoned. If we sound desperate, that’s only because we know what our hands can do.
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From the Editor, Announcements, MusicTopaz WintersJessie Lynn McMains, Elizabeth Ruth Deyro, Alena Zeng, Peter Milne Greiner, Gale Acuff, Elijah Mann, Topaz Winters, C.A Scheherazade, Cindy Xin, Rodney Wilder, Matt Mitchell, Leela Chantrelle, The Haunt, Jonah Howell, Sophie Zhu, Jam Pascual, Hana Widerman, Love In the Ruins, Yejin Suh, Joan Pope
Postponing Half Mystic Journal's Issue VIII: Sforzando
We don’t come to this decision lightly, & we believe the extra breathing room is truly necessary to publishing Issue VIII with care & intentionality.
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Announcing the Submission Deadline for Issue VIII: Sforzando
Thank you for teaching us the grace of sandpaper, the razor-kiss of wreckage, staccato-sharp skeleton strung up to a 4/4 time signature.
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Music, AnnouncementsTopaz WintersJessie Lynn McMains, Elizabeth Ruth Deyro, Peter Milne Greiner, Gale Acuff, Elijah Mann, Topaz Winters, C.A Scheherazade, Cindy Xin, Rodney Wilder, Matt Mitchell, Leela Chantrelle, Jonah Howell, Jam Pascual, Hana Widerman, Love In the Ruins, Yejin Suh, Joan Pope
Preorders are Open for Issue VIII: Sforzando
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.
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Announcements, MusicTopaz WintersJessie Lynn McMains, Elizabeth Ruth Deyro, Peter Milne Greiner, Gale Acuff, Elijah Mann, C.A Scheherazade, Cindy Xin, Rodney Wilder, Matt Mitchell, Leela Chantrelle, Jonah Howell, Jam Pascual, Hana Widerman, Love In the Ruins, Joan Pope
"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.
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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.
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Introducing Say Mother Say Hand
It is a personification of the word despite: survival despite, forgiveness despite, love despite. This book speaks & we can’t help but pay attention.
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