A Public Space is an independent nonprofit publisher of an eponymous literary and arts magazine and book imprint.

The organization's magazine, A Public Space, is a triannual, English-language literary journal based in Brooklyn, New York.

[3] In its debut issue in 2006, Hughes stated that the journal's mission was to be “A literary forum for the stories behind the news, a fragment of an overheard conversation, a peek at the novel the person next to you on the subway is reading, the life you invent for the man in front of you at the supermarket checkout line.

Ideas and stories about the things that confront us, amuse us, confound us, intrigue us.”[6] Authors such as Marilynne Robinson, Jesmyn Ward, Haruki Murakami, Charles D'Ambrosio, Rick Moody, Anna Deavere Smith, Kelly Link, Sreyash Sarkar, Daniel Alarcón, Juan Manuel Chavez, Santiago Roncagliolo, Miguel Gutierrez, Jillian Weise, Keith Lee Morris, Jonathan Lethem, Martha Cooley, Anne Carson, Delia Falconer, David Levi Strauss, Nam Le, Ander Monson, Maile Chapman, Antoine Wilson, Kimiko Hahn, and Garth Greenwell have all contributed.

In 2011, Brigid Hughes received the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing for "her commitment to quality literature and for her larger purpose."