Dear No Tokens Reader,
 
It is with gravity and a fledgling hope that No Tokens has made the difficult decision to move exclusively online, beginning with the content of Issue 9. We’ve always sought to honor nostalgia—objects, the obsolete tokens, the smell of pages. It has been a great privilege to have printed eight beautiful issues, and a greater privilege still for our readers to have held them in their hands. We’ve felt a connectivity in that; something we will seek to honor in our newest iteration.
 
We are a self-funded journal, created and fanatically tended to by a small editorial staff, which comprises only volunteers. In the past, AWP provided us a yearly opportunity for greater outreach and to broaden our readership. In the absence of such communal exposure, last year and this, our personal means cannot sustain the cost of printing. Blunt as such a realization felt, in its relief we have conjured abundant reimaginings of what No Tokens could look like—its capacity for inclusivity, and the limitlessness of what we might mean when we say “surprise us!” We will now publish all of our contributors’ work on our website, notokensjournal.com, without charge to our readers. We are eager to explore and showcase new media and to humbly offer a platform for a broader spectrum of artistic communities. These pledges to renewal have easily outdone what felt, at first, like an ending. Ultimately, we are reminded that there can be no nostalgia without progress.
 
Issue 9 features the works of incredible new contributors, including the winners (and visionaries) of our first ever Young Poets’ Prize. Though every issue is dear and profound to us in unique ways, the content of this issue, especially, has been a balm and a source of immeasurable joy over the last year. It is a greater privilege than ever to platform art—voices, visions, and possibilities.
 
Very truly yours,
 
No Tokens staff