Brooklyn to Gangnam Magazine is a publication that seeks to pushes the edge and crosses the aisle—between genres, disciplines, and communities. Founded in 2025 by Chunbum Park and Julie Jang, and led by Literary Editor-in-Chief Albert Abdul-Barr Wang, we publish an admixture of experimental writing and contemporary art that speaks across languages, mediums, and neighborhoods. Our core aim is to convene the Asian-American and its allied communities with the literary and visual art worlds at-large, building a living commons where surprise, rigor, and generosity meet.
Our pages welcome hybrid forms: the essay that sketches like charcoal, the poem that thinks like code, the photograph that argues like a manifesto. We pair text and image, critique and creation, translation and original work, so readers encounter ideas the way artists make them—layered, provisional, alive. Every issue builds deliberate bridges: between emerging and established voices; between artists working in studios and writers publishing online; between traditions inherited and forms not yet named.
Brooklyn to Gangnam is an editorial practice as much as a publication. We mentor early-career contributors while inviting mid-career and veteran practitioners to take risks in public. We commission dialogues, portfolios, and cross-genre experiments; we host readings and pop-up exhibitions that meet communities where they gather; and we cultivate partnerships with schools, studios, and independent spaces to widen the circle of access. Our digital and print features are designed to travel—shareable, teachable, and ready for conversation.
Our commitment to equity is structural and ongoing. We actively solicit work from a broad range of Asian and Asian-American perspectives and from allies whose practices resonate with ours, understanding that no single lens can hold the fullness of contemporary culture. We publish with care—clear contracts, editorial rigor, and a collaborative process—so contributors are seen, credited, and sustained. Accessibility matters: we prioritize legible design, alt text, captioning, and translation pipelines that carry work across borders.
Above all, we believe culture moves when voices move together. Brooklyn to Gangnam Magazine is a meeting point and a launchpad: a place where experimental literature and contemporary art converse, where local stories carry global voltage, and where readers discover, return, and bring others along.
The magazine will be printed on premium lustre paper and provide each writer with their piece, including a short contributor bio.
The accepted writers will receive a free digital version that will be available for download on issuu. The physical copy will also be available for purchase on Blurb. Furthermore, additional copies of the magazine will be printed and distributed in and around the galleries, libraries, and public spaces in Chelsea and Tribeca in Manhattan.
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Submission Process:
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For submission, please use this link.​
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Issues/Volumes:
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Winter 2025 (Issue 01):
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Featuring the works of Quaran Ahmad, Liv Davidson, Sangho Han, Haley Indorato, David Kim, Joy H. Kwon, Adrienne Lee, Yang Lu, Anita Maksimiuk, Mary McGee, William Norton, Sissy Nunziata, Marci Pei, Rene Saheb, and Andrew Wong.
Essays by David Alexander, Chunbum Park, and Albert Abdul-Barr Wang.
Sponsors: Kuo Roser Studio and LOT-EK
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Spring 2026 (Issue 02):
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Featuring the works of Omar Cebellos and others (please apply through the submission link!)