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Half Mystic Press [1]

Basic Information
Submission Guidelines: 
https://halfmystic.com/guidelines [2]
City: 
New York
Website: 
https://halfmystic.com [3]
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State: 
New York
Country: 
United States
Contact Information
Contact Title: 
Editor in Chief
Contact First Name: 
Topaz
Winters
Contact E-mail: 
Details
Genres Published: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Publishes Through Contests Only: 
No
Reading Period: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025 to Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Response Time: 
Greater than 6 months
Book Types: 
Novella
Short story collections
Essay collections
Novel
Memoir
Poetry collections
Formats: 
Paperback
E-book
Charges Reading Fee: 
Yes
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
Yes
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
Yes
Distributors: 
IngramSpark
Tips From the Editor: 

We are interested in writing that considers music 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, an object it can’t escape, a reality it’s chasing. We look for work that commits itself to language as both joyful choice and method of survival. We love books that are different from anything we’ve ever published, books that introduce music into their lexicon in stunning and surprising ways. We generally gravitate to the lyrical over the straight-talking and the surreal over the down-to-earth, but also, we want to be surprised. Send us work that knows where it came from and what it has to lose. Work that takes the risk with its eyes wide open.

Titles per Year: 
1 to 5
Editorial Focus: 

Established in 2015, Half Mystic Press is an international, independent, and interdisciplinary publishing house dedicated to the celebration of music in all its forms.

Representative Authors: 

Hazem Fahmy, Marie Conlan, Sammie Downing, Adrienne Novy, Lucy Hannah Ryan, Tamara Jobe, Haley Wooning, Melissa Atkinson Mercer

How many authors debut in each issue?: 
0
Publishing type: 
online and print [4]
Subgenres: 
Autobiography/Memoir [5]
BIPOC Voices [6]
Creative Nonfiction [7]
Cross-genre [8]
Experimental [9]
Flash Fiction [10]
LGBTQ Voices [11]
Literary Fiction [12]
Lyric Essay [13]
Magical Realism [14]
Narrative Nonfiction [15]
Prose Poetry [16]
Short Fiction [17]
Speculative Fiction [18]
Speculative Poetry [19]

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/small_presses/half_mystic_press

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/small_presses/half_mystic_press [2] https://halfmystic.com/guidelines [3] https://halfmystic.com [4] https://www.pw.org/category/publishing_type/online_and_print [5] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/autobiographymemoir [6] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/bipoc-voices [7] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/17192 [8] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/crossgenre [9] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/experimental [10] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/flash_fiction [11] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/glbt [12] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/literary_fiction [13] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/17191 [14] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/magical-realism [15] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/narrative_nonfiction [16] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/prose_poetry [17] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/short-fiction [18] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/speculative-fiction [19] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/speculative-poetry