In a memorable virtual gathering held on Wednesday, October 11, eight talented writers came together to share excerpts from their shortlisted stories for the upcoming anthology Sticks and Stones.

Some seasons are for abundant growth, and some are for gentle preservation. Both are equally sacred.

The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is one of the most honoured literary projects in America. They welcome up to six nominations (print or online) from little magazine and small book press editors throughout the world, and selected winners will appear in their annual publication.

The complete table of contents for the December 2024 issue of Blank Spaces magazine.

We are so pleased to announce that five writers have made the shortlist for our September 2024 Write Prompt Challenge.

The thing you create today has potential to inspire someone generations down the road. Art is legacy. Story is holy. If you’re called to share, don’t stop pushing until you are heard.

The complete table of contents for the September 2024 issue of Blank Spaces magazine.

We are so pleased to announce that four writers have made the shortlist for our June 2024 Write Prompt Challenge.

Sorche Paterson joins the Blank Spaces team as the new proofreader.

Pauline Shen joined the Blank Spaces volunteer team as a proofreader for the June 2022 issue and has been a consistent and reliable source of insight, encouragement, and wisdom in the two years that followed.

I work with authors every day who are second-guessing their work, walking that uncomfortable line of being really pleased with what they’ve created, but terrified that it’s not good enough. My response is always the same: creation is vulnerable work.

The complete table of contents for the June 2024 issue of Blank Spaces magazine.

We are so pleased to announce that six writers have made the shortlist for our March 2024 Write Prompt Challenge.

Maybe art is the vehicle through which we can be evangelists for our own message… That’s what we’re all doing—every artist, every writer, every poet—we’re all just trying to share our view of the world. Not to gain followers or bring people into our camp, but just to prove to ourselves that what we believe matters on a grander scale.

The complete table of contents for the March 2024 issue of Blank Spaces magazine.

We are so pleased to announce that four writers have made the shortlist for our December 2023 Write Prompt Challenge.

We cling to the thing we create because it is precious to us. To send it out into the world means we are trusting it to a system that may not care the way we care, and our feelings are far too fragile to handle damaged packaging, or, God forbid, abandoned deliveries.

The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is one of the most honoured literary projects in America. They welcome up to six nominations (print or online) from little magazine and small book press editors throughout the world, and selected winners will appear in their annual publication.

The complete table of contents for the December 2023 issue of Blank Spaces magazine.

We are so pleased to announce that four writers have made the shortlist for our September 2023 Write Prompt Challenge.