The Common is an American biannual print and online magazine with a team of editors who are inspired by the idea of ‘Finding the extraordinary in the common’. Hoping to use the magazine as a kind of town common, they seek to be a public gathering place for the display and exchange of ideas’ and ‘deepen our individual and collective sense of place’.
The Common publishes fiction, essays, poetry, documentary vignettes, and ‘images that embody particular times and places both real and imagined’. The editorial team seek ‘literature and art powerful enough to reach from there to here.’ Writers’ work should give ‘a modern sense of place.’