perhaps is a magazine devoted to wondering, asking questions, and exploring topics that deserve slow and careful consideration. 

We publish long- and short-form essays, fiction, artwork, and visualizations that spend time with a subject, offering not authoritative views but explorations, provocations, and engagements. From the environment to communities, from artifacts to metaphysics, perhaps is an open space to explore ideas. 

perhaps is published in print twice yearly by Perchance Publishing LLC in Brooklyn, NY. perhaps is committed to fostering creative and critical writing and art from a diverse range of creators. We actively seek submissions for publishing online and in print.

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Founders and Editors

Michael L Kelly is a Brooklyn-based designer, educator, and writer who does everything he can to make those roles overlap, ideally with civic engagement somewhere in the mix. He has worked for and with small non-profits and large companies around the world, and is Creative Director for a small mapmaking company, Good Foot Enterprises.

Nancy Smith is a designer, writer, and artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work explores connections between the environment, technology, and climate crisis. Her writing has been published in Seattle Weekly, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, Your Impossible Voice, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from the University of San Francisco, and her PhD from Indiana University. She is an Associate Professor at Pratt Institute.

Chris Alen Sula is a teacher and scholar living in Brooklyn. He is interested in technology, the occult, and cultural studies, and has been published in various journals and edited volumes.