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Dec 1, 2023

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"Air/Light is an online literary journal published by the English Department at the University of Southern California. We showcase both traditional and innovative works. We are firmly of the West Coast, but also national, international."

"Air/Light is an online literary journal published by the English Department at the University of Southern California. We showcase both traditional and innovative works. We are firmly of the West Coast, but also national, international."

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Response Time

1 month

Acceptance Rate

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  • Payment

    Yes: see Genres section for details

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    No

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    No

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes: Twitter: Yes | Instagram: Yes

Accepted genres

9 genres

Fiction

Max words: 4000

Nonfiction

Max words: 4000

Poetry

10 pages maximum

Hybrid

Cross-genre: Original work that blurs the lines of genre and form, whether text only or incorporating images and other multimedia elements. ...

Art

No specific limitations

Photography

No specific limitations

Audio

Music: Original recordings, compositions, and mixes.

Video

Short films, video essays, experimental collage, or anything in this territory.

Game

Digital, multimedia, and interactive: Video games, twine narratives, choose-your-own-adventure web stories, interactive experiences, VR/AR/X...

Fiction

Max words: 4000

Nonfiction

Max words: 4000

Poetry

10 pages maximum

Hybrid

Cross-genre: Original work that blurs the lines of genre and form, whether text only or incorporating images and other multimedia elements. ...

Art

No specific limitations

Photography

No specific limitations

Audio

Music: Original recordings, compositions, and mixes.

Video

Short films, video essays, experimental collage, or anything in this territory.

Game

Digital, multimedia, and interactive: Video games, twine narratives, choose-your-own-adventure web stories, interactive experiences, VR/AR/X...

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49

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How to submit

Process

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Cover letters

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Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

Prose: Please submit your work in Word .doc or .docx format, double-spaced with one inch margins, in Times New Roman 12. Please put the title and your name at the top of the first page, and please add a short bio (no more than 50 words) at the end of the piece. Poetry: Please use a new page to begin each poem, and put the title and your name at the top of each page.

Rights for published work

This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.

Additional info

We are particularly interested in work from female-identifying, BIPOC, and LGBTQ creators.

About the Magazine

Founded in ? | United States

We mean to look out expansively from this place rather than to gaze narrowly back at it, to express a West Coast aesthetic, a West Coast sensibility, and direct that lens onto the world. California and the West Coast—the occupied land of the Tongva in Los Angeles, where we are based, and those of other indigenous peoples of the Americas—has long been defined by narrow fantasies produced by settler colonialism and racial capitalism. But the region we know has a history as diverse and sweeping as it is fraught. Air/Light provides a space for writers and artists to explore not only the histories of violence, inequality, and exploitation—but also more intimate personal histories and lives defined by joy, triumph, and love.

Masthead

We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)

David L. Ulin

Editor-in-Chief

Aaron Winslow

Managing Editor

Melissa Chadburn

Associate Editor

Aimee Bender

Editor at Large

Dana Johnson

Editor at Large

Danzy Senna

Editor at Large

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