Air/Light Magazine
Literary Magazine
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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Highlights
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: 1 month*Editor reported data
- Acceptance rate: ?
Payssee Genres section for details
Find more details in the Genres section
FeeNo
Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
What's that?
Expedited submission: When the magazine offers a faster response time for an extra fee
Fiction - 4000 words max
Max words: 4000
Sub Genres: All / surprise us
Payment: $ 200
Nonfiction - 4000 words max
Max words: 4000
Sub Genres: All / surprise us
Payment: $ 200
Poetry
Payment: $ 50
Hybrid
Payment: $50-200
Art
Payment: $ 200
No specific limitations
Photography
Payment: $ 200
No specific limitations
Audio
Payment: $ 200
Video
Payment: $ 200
Game
Payment: $ 200
How to submit
Processs
Google / other forms
Cover letter
This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.
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.
Author's rights
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.
Tracker statistics
68
Total submissions tracked
158 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
157 days
Fastest response time
218 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 251 days
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About
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 ...
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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
Karen Tongson
Editor at Large