wanted: your great literature!

Send us great work! ... well, in a couple months (we'll reopen in April!).

When we are open, all accepted authors are paid, and all non-contest submissions will be considered for our $200 Staff Choice Award: an accepted submission chosen by our staff as best embodying two things we love and respect about writing: stylistic ambition and social engagement. One author each issue will receive this award, announced with the issue's release (usually in May).

As always: we hope to read your very best, we're excited to read it, and we want more, we hope for more, we quietly plead for/demand more. Simply: we love great literature, especially literature that is urgent and/or strange, and we love all voices, be they new, emerging, or established - certainly those from underrepresented groups. We always put samples from past issues on our homepage if you'd like to get a sense of our sensibilities.

Note: Submissions are being read for our spring 2025 issue. They must be previously unpublished, and simultaneous submissions are totally fine (but please withdraw accepted pieces immediately; the lack of this practice has increased far too much for us lately).

Note 2.0: We generally charge a two dollar fee so that we can do something we hope all agree is a good thing: pay all our authors, at least $40 per writer; usually we have free submissions in early Dec and May ... and during most of June and July, we're happy to provide free submissions to any authors who self-identify as being from underrepresented or minoritized communities or simply can't afford the $2 fee. Just email our editor at sbernard (at) laverne (dot) edu for more information.

-->Excepting the student contest, current students and employees of the University of La Verne are not eligible to submit. Sorry!

Note 3.0: We are not Prism International, a fantastic journal in Canada.

Happy submitting, and feel free to visit/like our Facebook page!