[3] Though based in New York, the publication's editorial network is distributed across North American cities and regions.
Notable contributors have included Jonathan Lethem, Lydia Millet, and Chris Kraus.
It was an early publisher to authors Roxane Gay, Sean Gill, Amelia Gray, Rachel Khong, and Ottessa Moshfegh.
[4] In 2016 Joyland was merged with Schultz and Davis's Heroic Collective Media, and new publishers, Kyle Lucia Wu and Lisa Locascio, were hired to oversee editorial and development.
[5] Since then Joyland has founded the "Bad Women" panel series[6] for female writers and filmmakers, and its stories and authors have been profiled by Huffington Post[7] and Lenny Letter.