Half Mystic Press

We are interested in writing that considers music integral to and inseparable from language, and writing that sings as an avenue to story. We like work that is faithful to something: its speaker or subject or setting, a reader it imagines or an object it can’t escape or a reality it’s chasing. We look for work that loves language as both lover and lifeboat, at once joyful choice and method of survival. We’re always thinking about the intimacy of intertextuality and the ways sound binds meaning within and between bodies. We’re drawn to many of the same qualities in literature that we are in people—namely, work that knows where it came from and what it has to lose. Work that takes the risk with its eyes wide open.