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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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Acceptance Rate
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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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
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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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