ABOUT
Moxy is an independent magazine dedicated to bringing you the best creative nonfiction from around the world. Previously based in Oxford and London, the magazine now operates out of New York City.
Moxy was born out of a love of writing that plays with voice, style, and narrative, while also uncovering real-world stories. We hope that the magazine will be a place where readers can reliably encounter new writing in this vein.
If you would like to learn about what we’re looking to publish, or how to submit, please go to our submissions page. You can contact us on the submissions page with a pitch, or alternatively email us here.
Read our Editorial for the launch below.
MASTHEAD
Christina Fleischer
Founding Editor
Christina designed Moxy’s website and edited the Sleep of Reason and Interview series.
Mathis Clément
Founding Editor
Mathis has an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU. His work has appeared in The London Magazine, Review 31, Isis, and The Independent.
Sara Krolewski
Editor
Sara is an Associate Editor at the Atlantic and the editor of Moxy’s Summer 20 series. She is the former Stenberg Fellow in Cultural Reporting and Criticism at NYU’s Arthur L Carter Journalism Institute.
Malak Khalil
Sub-Editor
Malak is a recent graduate of the MSt in World Literatures in English at Oxford University. In addition to her role in Moxy, she is also an Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, Assistant Managing Editor for Asymptote Journal, and a Shubbak Festival Young Advisor (2019-2021).
~ LAUNCH EDITORIAL ~
March 2020
‘May you live in interesting times.’ So goes the Chinese curse. For writers, such times are liable to strike at the power of their imagination. In a 1961 essay entitled ‘Writing American Fiction’, Philip Roth proposed that modern American reality defies credibility to such an extent that ‘it is a kind of embarrassment to one’s own meagre imagination…the culture tosses up figures almost daily that are the envy of any novelist.’ His examples include Charles Van Doren, Roy Cohn, and Dwight D Eisenhower. We might consider such an offering tame, when able to list in comparison Vladislav Surkov, Greta Thunberg, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump. What is the writer today to make of such a reality?
Over the last few decades a new literary form has come to define itself. Variously called imaginative nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, and creative nonfiction, this nebulous hybrid form may offer an answer of how best to interpret our times. By infiltrating traditional nonfiction genres, such as criticism, travel writing, and memoir, and refiguring them with the impish inventiveness of the fabulator, creative nonfiction offers a path to writing about contemporary life in a new and challenging way. Skirting the edges of these forms, such work is liable to tumble into the cracks between them. As such there exist few platforms with the remit to publish and promote creative nonfiction. That’s why we started Moxy: to offer a home for work that by definition is homeless.
For our launch we are proud to present pieces covering a vast range of subjects: Adam Husain writes about going in search of an overlooked Talmudic philosopher; Sara Krolewski celebrates a campy store holding out against the gentrification of SoHo; Jamie George draws connections between a half-finished Rodin sculpture and his own relationship with his father; Jordan Greene recounts the ecstasies and terrors of a twelve-hour trip on LSD; Freddie Hopkinson hikes to a remote church not far from Georgia’s border with Russia; and Ann Kathryn Kelly elucidates the connections between winemaking and writing. We hope, shut up as we all are in self-isolation, that Moxy will offer a window onto the world.