Brooklyn to Gangnam Magazine is an analog + digital hybrid 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—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 physicial 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 or website. The physical copy for some of the accepted writers and all visual artists will also be available for purchase through us via email. 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 as well as international channels/online.
NOTE: Literary submissions may be considered for the following: a) print issue and/or digital version through our website or b) digital supplement only. The digital supplement version will allow us to publish works rapidly and reach a public audience more rapidly. Accepted visual art submissions are print only due to the formatting of the digital supplement online.
Submission Process:
For submission, please use our Subfolio link.
Issues/Volumes:
Winter 2025 (Issue 01):
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.
Digital edition with exclusive short story by Steven William.
Sponsors: Kuo Roser Studio and LOT-EK
Spring 2026 (Issue 02):
Artists (Visual): Dasha Bazanova, Joey Carron, Omar Ceballos, Cayla de Guzman, Matthew DeStefano, Ross Doyle, Miriam Duarte, Bella Feinstein, Josué Guarionex, Sangho Han, Abbey Hepner, Michael Hower, Seungjin Jung, Frank Olt, Samuel J. Pitzer, Sabrina Puppin, Ana Teresa Rodríguez, Alexa Senan, and Yuzhe Yan.
Writers (Literary): Ian Powell-Palm, Daniel C. Blight, Albert Abdul-Barr Wang, Dana I. Hunter, Henry Aaron-Argueta, Elise Adibi, Rosie Shields, Carolyn Mireault, Ziwei Liu, and Chunbum Park.
Sponsor(s): Loisaida, Inc. Center
B2G & Roundcube Staff:
Director (Roundcube Contemporary): Julie Jang
Julie Jang is a Korean American curator based in NYC/NJ. She has worked with emerging and established artists for well over a decade, facilitating solo and group exhibitions at locations such as 4W43 Gallery near 5th Avenue and Space 776 in the LES. Most notably, Jang worked with Shigeko Kubota in hosting a book singing event in 2011 (for "My Love, Paik Nam-June").
Editor-in-chief, Visual (Brooklyn to Gangnam): Chunbum Park
Chunbum Park, also known as Chun, is an artist from South Korea, where they were born in 1991. They received their BFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in 2020 and their MFA in Fine Arts Studio from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2022, where they changed their pronouns. Born a male, Park likes to cross dress and depicts themselves as a woman in their paintings. They are the inventor of the ArtBid art auction card game and run the Roundcube Collective (currently merged with the Brooklyn to Gangnam/Roundcube Contemporary website), where they interview other artists. In 2023, Park began writing exhibition reviews for various online and print magazines, including the New Visionary Magazine. They currently reside in Cliffside Park, New Jersey.
Editor-in-chief, Literary (Brooklyn to Gangnam): Albert Abdul-Barr Wang
Albert Abdul-Barr Wang is an indigenous Taiwanese-American Los Angeles-based Oulipo-influenced bard and experimental writer. He is a MFA candidate in creative writing (fiction) at the California Institute of the Arts/CalArts (2028). Also he received a MFA in studio art from the ArtCenter College of Design (2025), a BFA in Photography & Digital Imaging at the University of Utah (2023), and a BA in Creative Writing/English Literature at Vanderbilt University (1997).
Wang's artworks, prose, and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Waterstoning Journal, The Goby Review, TIMBER, The Adroit Journal, New Delta Review (NDR), BRINK, Clockwise Cat, Ekphrastic Review, The Hooghly Review, Brooklyn to Gangnam, and fractured lit. His piece "Bryan Betancur, Insider #2160" was longlisted for The Masters Review's 2025 Summer Short Story Award for New Writers judged by Jennine Capó Crucet. He is currently the literary editor-in-chief at Brooklyn to Gangnam and a prose reader for Quarterly West. You can find him at www.albertabdulbarrwang.art and on Instagram at @albertabdulbarrwang.
Editor, Literary (Brooklyn to Gangnam): Rosie Shields
Rosie Shields is a Los Angeles born creative, raised in the rhythm and resilience of the inner city. She is a Mother, artist, published author and licensed health practitioner. Rosie’s passion lies at the intersection of art, healing, and community. She currently serves as the co-founder of the Compton Artists Alliance 501c3 and as a collections manager for fine artists with the greater Los Angeles.
She is currently pursuing a degree in Art Therapy, driven by the belief that art has the power to reshape culture and elevate the human experience. Rosie creates to leave an imprint on history and inspire others to do the same.
Assistant Editor and Reader, Literary (Brooklyn to Gangnam): Nafis Shahriar
Nafis Shahriar is a writer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. His work has appeared in A Thin Slice of Anxiety, The Woman Inc., and Dhaka Tribune. He can be reached at @somedudefromasia.
Reader, Literary (Brooklyn to Gangnam): Henry Aaron Argueta
Henry Aaron Argueta is a poet and writer born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He began writing in his early teens, discovering in language a place to hold memory, tension, and the minutiae of everyday life. Argueta writes to trace the moments that shape us and to illuminate the stories that live between silence and sound. He continues to explore new forms and voices, driven by a lifelong belief in the power of words to witness, transform, and connect.