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Tolstoy Together, a virtual book club to read War and Peace with Yiyun Li, launches on March 18, 2020. The experience—an 85-day collective journey through an epic novel with thousands of readers across six continents—would later be compiled in the book Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li. APS Together, a new series of virtual book clubs, launches in June 2020.

The Editorial Fellowship is established.

A Public Space Books is established.

A Public Space is awarded the inaugural Literary Magazine Prize from the Whiting Foundation for “stand[ing] as a paradigm of what literary magazines can be.” 

Editor Brigid Hughes and A Public Space receive the Colophon Award for Paradigm Independent Publishing from CLMP (Community of Literary Magazines and Presses). 

The Deborah Pease Prize is established to honor the legacy of A Public Space’s founding benefactor.

Jamel Brinkley’s debut story collection, A Lucky Man (A Public Space/Graywolf), is a finalist for the National Book Award.

Dorthe Nors’s novel Mirror, Shoulder Signal (A Public Space/Graywolf), translated from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra, is a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize.
 

A Public Space No. 23, a tenth-anniversary issue of the magazine exploring a generation of women writers and artists, and questions of anonymity and erasure in art, is published. 

The Writing Fellowships—a program to support writers at the start of their careers—is established.

Graywolf Press announces a partnership with A Public Space to publish books by contributors to the magazine. The titles published through the partnership would include: Karate Chop, So Much for That Winter, and Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors; Cities I’ve Never Lived In by Sara Majka; The Complete Ballet by John Haskell; and A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley.

Editor Brigid Hughes receives the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Editing.

Monkey Business, an annual anthology edited by Motoyuki Shibata showcasing contemporary Japanese literature, which developed from a portfolio in the debut issue of A Public Space, debuts. A Public Space would serve as the co-publisher for seven editions of Monkey Business. In 2020, the publication would relaunch as Monkey: New Writing from Japan. 

The first issue of A Public Space is published.