By Brian Dunlap

MORIA, the literary journal at Woodbury University in Burbank, California, is open for submissions for their Fall issue until October 1, 2019.

MORIA, founded in 2017, is Woodbury’s national literary magazine with an all-student editorial board. The undergraduates who serve as editors and managers of the magazine participate in an official course on campus, during which they learn the fundamentals of producing an online literary journal with a professional focus. 

They believe, as their website states, that “words have and always will have power.” They want to encounter writing that makes people think; poetry and story and memoir that generate questions; ideas and obsessions that spark hearts as well as break them.

MORIA accepts all styles of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction–experimental, hybrid and conventional forms, among others–from emerging and established writers in the United States and across the world. Not only do they publish twice a year, in late spring and late fall, they have previously published local writers like poets Lynn Thompson, Suzanne Lummis, Brendan Constantine, Lois P. Jones and a short story by Désirée Zamorano, among other writers.

Follow MORIA’s guidelines and submit via Submitable by October 1, 2019.