The journal

Issues, and how to send work.

Betty Observer publishes essays, letters, and object studies. We are not a newsroom and not a shop. Pieces are edited in Porto and appear when they are finished.

07

Autumn 2026

One street back from the river. Notes on shops, a letter from a climbing street, and three bottles.

Read

06

Spring 2026

Streets after rain. What remains of a town when the day-visitors have gone inside.

Print & desk

05

Winter 2025

Rooms for reading. Four tables, and why each of them was pushed toward a particular window.

Print & desk

Pitch

Send the idea, not the performance.

A few paragraphs are enough: what you looked at, where, and why it is not finished. We reply, including when the answer is no. We do not take pieces that are advertisements with the logo delayed until paragraph six.

Write