New Moves for SALIMA Magazine
L.Á. based literary journal SALIMA is moving from being based at the Feminist Center for Creative Work to ProjectQ “with the support of Madin Lopez.” Continue reading New Moves for SALIMA Magazine
L.Á. based literary journal SALIMA is moving from being based at the Feminist Center for Creative Work to ProjectQ “with the support of Madin Lopez.” Continue reading New Moves for SALIMA Magazine
By Gabriel San Román
FROM: TimesOC
For naysayers, Orange County’s literary scene is as barren as the citrus orchards that once dominated its landscape but have long since been bulldozed to make way for suburban blandness. O.C. supposedly traded its tart to be trite.
Continue reading “New ‘Citric Acid’ quarterly journal gives O.C. some literary tart”
By Dorany Pineda
FROM: Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Review of books was conceived more than a decade ago during a dark period for the print literary ecosystem.
Continue reading “New Yorkers scoffed. 10 Years Later, the Los Angeles Review of Books is a Cultural Force”
By Peter Larsen
FROM: Orange County Register
While considering a name for the new literary journal “Air/Light,” editor David Ulin recalled a magazine piece he’d read years ago in which a climatologist described the unusual way that air transforms light in Southern California.
Continue reading “David Ulin Talks USC’s New Literary Journal ‘Air/Light’ And Its Focus On Southern California”
By Brian Dunlap

It’s been five years since “Dryland: A Literary Journal Born in South Central Los Angeles,” published its first issue. Since Founding Editor-in-Chief, Viva Padilla, set out to publish “the best poetry, fiction, and nonfiction of the Los Angeles literary underground, and to prioritizing Black and POC artists, writers, and poets,” as it states on the journal’s website.
Continue reading “Dryland Expands Its Mission”
Two interviews with two Los Ángeles poets, VIva Padilla—Órale Boyle Heights—and Nikolia Garcia—The Badass Bookworm Podcast. Continue reading Two Interviews With Viva Padilla and Nikolai Garcia of Dryland: A Literary Journal Based in South Central Los Angeles
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.
Continue reading “Local Literary Journal Open For Submissions”
By Brian Dunlap
This summer two local literary journals—Pomona Valley Review and Dryland: A Literary Journal Based in South Central L.A.—released their latest issues.
Continue reading “Two Local Literary Journals Have A Summer Release”
By Brian Dunlap

Dryland, a literary journal based in South Central Los Ángeles, is currently open to submissions. The deadline is March 4, 2019.