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“My research holds me, as the months pass in the Sphere and the days pass in the world, and I learn about the fragile conditions that broke down one by one.” Read an excerpt from INFORMATION AGE by Cora Lewis, out today, in DEBUTIFUL. debutiful.net/2025/07/15/rea…

"I end up with snippets, vignettes, snatches of conversation. But when I force myself to linger, sometimes the result is good." Cameron Engwall talks with Cora Lewis about "Information Age," her debut novella. lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-i…

Vol 3.1 launches: 8/2 in CLE and 7/24 in NYC. Readings from contributors and friends Ali Black, Brandon North, Bianca Rae Messinger, Cobi, Christopher Urban, Kortney Morrow, Caroline McManus, and Zach Peckham. You. Us. Blue mags. White gulls.

Our Issue Fifteen launch party is TONIGHT! Join us for readings by g a b y, jamie, benji, Stephanie Wambugu, mariah, and Owen Park.

"I was always curious about journalism. It was the responsible thing I did. Fiction was the secret, irresponsible thing." Read Cora Lewis in conversation with Cameron Engwall in Los Angeles Review of Books. lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-i…

Today on Joyland, Hannah Kingsley-Ma (hannah Kingsley-Ma) writes about secrets, Mapquest, and 9/11 in "My Private Life." joylandpublishing.com/fiction/my-pri…

"They were obsessed with Badness. What it could mean for them, but more importantly the people they loved. That those beloved people could hurt or be hurt was intolerable to them." —from "My Private Life" by hannah Kingsley-Ma joylandpublishing.com/fiction/my-pri…

Two tickets left for our reading at Little Egg in Brooklyn tonight! Entry is free.

"I wanted badly to believe love was expansive. That it didn’t cheapen the experience to do it again and again and again." —from "My Private Life" by hannah Kingsley-Ma joylandpublishing.com/fiction/my-pri…

"They became whatever they read: little Anne Franks, little Amelia Earhearts. They lived in a cruel future, or they lived in a cruel past. In both versions their survival wasn’t guaranteed." —from "My Private Life" by hannah Kingsley-Ma joylandpublishing.com/fiction/my-pri…

Submissions for WANTED [whatiwanted (dot) org] are now open exclusively to writers seeking their 1st publication

Thank you to Thessaly La Force (Thessaly (王正谊) La Force) for sharing INFORMATION AGE by Cora Lewis as part of her summer reading list in Lena Dunham's Substack, Good Thing Going. La Force calls INFORMATION AGE "A charming, sensual novella." goodthinggoing.substack.com

"But happiness— this was a door forever closed to an artist." —from "Why Did The Drowned Man Have Balled Fists?" by Kyung-ran Jo, translated by Chi-Young Kim (excerpted from BLOWFISH, out now from Astra House) joylandpublishing.com/fiction/blowfi…

Read an excerpt from Kyung-ran Jo's BLOWFISH, translated by Chi-Young Kim, in Joyland Publishing joylandpublishing.com/fiction/blowfi…

"Whenever she had to make a decision or felt confused, she split herself in two." —from "Why Did The Drowned Man Have Balled Fists?" by Kyung-ran Jo, translated by Chi-Young Kim (excerpted from BLOWFISH, out now from Astra House) joylandpublishing.com/fiction/blowfi…

Tonight in Unnameable Books's backyard: Cora Lewis (Cora Lewis) and Andrew Martin in conversation with Thessaly La Force (Thessaly (王正谊) La Force).

Available for preorder from Rose Books now: WRITER'S DIARY by Matthew Gasda novalis, out October 28, 2025! rosebooks.co

"It was the two of them against broccoli mom. That much was clear. They exchanged numbers to seal the alliance." Just revisited this very beautiful story published @joylandpub in 2021, and it has only grown on me. Ten Year Affair, By Erin Somers joylandpublishing.com/fiction/ten-ye…