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Thank you to everyone who has supported us. Our subscribers, readers, authors, illustrators, our fans cheering from the sidelines—thank you all for your passionate love of literature, for being the kinds of people who stop to wonder at and be moved by all the tiny mysteries of the world. It was my goal to give voice to those of you with vibrant new perspectives, but unfortunately I’ll have to take a pause from that work.

Running a literary magazine is hard work, requiring an incredible amount of time, energy, and—if you believe (as I do) that authors and illustrators also deserve to be paid and that good art has genuine, concrete value—money. The amount of money, time, and energy required for this magazine to persist has surpassed what I can reasonably provide, so we will be temporarily, though indefinitely, pausing. I hesitate to say permanently closing, as I love this magazine and the people who contribute to and read it, and after some time back at the drawing board to see if it can be sustainable, I would love to see it reopen some day. 

However, for the foreseeable future, we will not be reading submissions or publishing new material. The website will remain active, and the published pieces will remain available, but going forward our (digital) doors are sadly shut.

Best,
J. McKenzie Nalley