Preorders are Open for Issue X: Elegy

Welcome, dear songbirds, to the end of Half Mystic’s first act: our final issue in this journal sequence is now open for preorder. Elegy showcases the last dropped petal—the mirror in mourning—the light still on for what was once beautiful. In this issue we look back on the years stolen or borrowed, hold our grief open & stand very still in the strain of song that washes from its depths.

Issue X features the voices of Philip Schaefer, Gavin Yuan Gao, Meg Reynolds, Anthony Thomas Lombardi, Katrinka Moore, Paola Bennet, Geoff Anderson, Esther Kim, Emma Chan, Esther Sun, Tori Grant Wellhouse, Taylor Gianfrancisco, myself, Abby E. Murray, Laura Mei Roghaar, Maria Chiara Piglione, & more. It comes out on July 28th. Paperback & PDF preorders are open now.

Submissions for our tenth issue are now closed! If you submitted in the last week of our reading period, expect a final decision via Submittable by next weekend. We so appreciate all the fathomlessly tender & fiercely intimate work you’ve sent us in the past year.

You can preorder your copy of Half Mystic Journal’s Issue X: Elegy here. If you’d like to keep up with Half Mystic’s future projects—& be the first to see what we’re working on for our second act—consider purchasing a journal subscription. To buy H/M in-person, take a look at our list of stockists, or request our books & journal from your favourite independent bookstore. As always, we offer free worldwide shipping on orders over $60.

In this elegy, there is no place that death doesn’t circle, no vacuum that silence didn’t fill long ago. Issue X is a prayer against forgetting, a promise to bear witness even where music falls short. & when the time comes to let go of what it can’t live without, the elegy issue knows what it means to wake into memory. It knows that in a world touched by song, there exists no such thing as extinction.