Publication
Essays. Fiction. Poetry. Criticism.
A hybrid literary journal and digital magazine for readers who prefer sentences that unfold slowly and arguments that refuse to resolve on schedule.
Featured Work
Against the Frictionless Page
On the subtle ways design flattens disagreement, tidies away complexity, and teaches us to consume rather than contend.
A tour through comment sections, footnotes, and the lost art of lingering with a difficult paragraph.
By Amara Solis · Essay · Current Issue
“In an economy of endless scroll, criticism becomes an act of attention — a slow, stubborn way of looking until the page looks back.”
Recent Work
From the latest issue
Essays
On Noticing in Public
By Lina Ortiz · A walk through the city with a notebook and no camera roll.
Margins for the Restless
By Theo Malik · On annotation as a form of conversation.
Fiction
The Quiet Apartment
By Safiya Ng · A story in three unlocked doors.
Adverbs at the End of the World
By Rowan Lee · After the sirens, a grammar lesson.
Poetry
Three Poems After Midnight
By Mira Das · Notes from a sleepless city.
Criticism
The Ethics of Rereading
By Jonah Price · Why we return to difficult books.
Editors’ Picks
Work we can’t stop pressing into friends’ hands, marking up, and arguing about.
The Archive as a Kind of Future
Essay by Nia Calder · On who gets remembered and why.
Letters to an Unwritten Novel
Fiction by Amal Reyes · Dispatches from the draft that never behaves.
After the Syllabus
Criticism by James Okafor · Reading beyond the assigned pages.
Editor’s Note
Each issue of Publication is edited as if it were a print run: finite, sequenced, and meant to be kept. We invite you to move through these pages at the pace of a book rather than a feed — to linger, reread, and argue in the margins.
Submissions
We welcome essays, fiction, poetry, criticism, and hybrid forms that think on the page. Send us work that lingers in the sentence, resists easy summary, and feels at home in both a journal and a magazine.
We read year-round and reply within 8–12 weeks. Simultaneous submissions are welcome; please withdraw promptly if your work is accepted elsewhere.
Issue No. 3 · Autumn 2025
the art will stand... 