The dawn of a new era for Stanchion Magazine has arrived. Issue 19 will be packed with 20-25 brilliant pieces of prose and poetry, and black and white photography you've come to expect, but now all that brilliance will be behind a striking full-color cover and available at a new, lower price directly from the Stanchion bookshop as well as from wherever you buy books on the internet. 
 
92 pages.
Paperback with perfect-bound spine
To be published in early August 2025.
ISBN: 979-8-89692-797-6
ABOUT ISSUE 19
With apologies to the bank on South Street, my first real adult job was at Vanguard, the investing behemoth in the suburbs of Philadelphia. My hiring class was filled with business people fresh with expensive master's degrees, but I took my community college credits into my interviews and talked my way into an entry level job by telling my first real story, that of an eager young entrepreneur who'd started a record label and found himself a defacto project manager juggling artistic talent, creating artwork, securing distribution, working on marketing and publicity, fulfilling orders, and staying on top of production. I would spend 9 years at Vanguard before leaving to be a stay at home dad. I learned a lot during that time, most notably that not all financial services companies are evil. Oh, don't get me wrong, most are, but Vanguard wasn't. In fact, they actively tried and successfully did LOWER costs for clients every year and managed to never lay off employees even during recessions. 
My kids are now adults, and I'm running a literary magazine and small book press. Back to my amateur project manager roots! And I'm going to lower costs, too, by 23% while at the same time increasing payments to contributors by 33%. I'm doing this because I want to put a bit more money into the pockets of creative people and because I want to work harder at making Stanchion more accessible to more readers. So I'm going back to a $10 cover price and hoping to make up the difference by selling more copies. To that end, for the first time, starting with Issue 19, Stanchion Magazine will be available to order from wherever you buy books around the world, just like every Stanchion book is, as well as as an e-reader-friendly PDF immediately upon publication directly from the Stanchion shop (no more waiting until it's sold out for an affordable PDF option to appear).
Stanchion is now five years old, and I've learned quite a bit about the finances of indie lit and the importance of community, as well as the limitations of this burgeoning space. I consider Stanchion a baby still, and I know there's a lot of growing still needed to be able to ensure this fledgling will stay aloft. I hope you'll continue to support Stanchion or, if you never could before, I hope the new price and greater availability globally will allow you to give an issue a try. Thanks for being a part of the Stanchion story. Now, more than ever before, All Are Welcome.