Half Mystic Press

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.