Literary Journals of the
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Bakersfield
Orpheus
Produced in the ENGL 4740 Editing Fiction for the Journal's course, Orpheus is an undergraduate and graduate literary journal of CSU-Bakersfield that was founded in 1975.
Channel Islands
Island Fox
Island Fox is an annual literary journal published by the Creative Writing Emphasis students at CSU Channel Islands meant to showcase the creative works of students, faculty, and alumni. Don’t miss out on your chance to get published and earn some bragging rights. We may be a hipster publication (you probably never hear of us), but we’re the real deal. We look forward to reading your poetry, fiction, nonfiction, one-act play, cartoon, travel journal, and photography submissions.
Chico
Watershed Review
The Watershed Review publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art. One poem or prose excerpt is chosen from each issue to be made into a broadside print through the Quoin Collective. Established in 1977, Watershed Review is the online literary publication at California State University, Chico. Housed in the English department, the magazine is produced by student editors seeking hands-on experience in literary editing and publishing. The journal's mission is to publish literature and visual art that illustrates diversity in thought and experience, and an awareness of literary tradition in conversation with the shifting edges of genre. Two times a year, we aim to publish both known and emerging authors side-by-side, featuring poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and art. Student editors who participate in the creation and maintenance of the Watershed Review learn valuable skills in publishing and editing, while gaining experience in the world of professional writing. Past issues of the journal can be accessed online.
Dominguez Hills
Enjambed Magazine
Enjambed is a Multi-Literacy Magazine composed of creative works including, but not limited to poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art. Enjambed is a collaborative effort among different departments on the CSU Dominguez Hills campus. Members from the English Graduate Association work together with the support of the English Department to select individual works for publication. Together with the Art and Design Department, the English Graduate Association chooses and designs a yearly issue that is distributed across campus. Enjambed is open to all current and former students across CSUDH and are encouraged to submit their work for consideration. Enjambed not only provides CSUDH students with the platform to publish their work, but it creates opportunities for students to manage and participate in the publication process.
East Bay
Arroyo Literary Review
Arroyo Literary Review, a critically acclaimed print journal, is produced annually by students and alumni at CSUEB. The journal accepts submissions from writers, poets, and artists worldwide. Each issue reflects the creative diversity found in the San Francisco Bay Area literary scene, while bringing together material from an international array of poets, writers, and artists. The premiere issue was released in Spring of 2009. Arroyo Literary Review is funded through the university and the generous contributions of individual donors. Arroyo welcomes submissions from new and established writers. We seek previously unpublished poetry, fiction, creative non fiction, personal essays, translations, and art that retains its vibrancy in black and white. The Spring 2009 issue, Spring 2012 issue, and Spring 2014 issue received strong reviews on NewPages. The journal was also rated one of the best literary journals for winter reading by The Montesserat Review.
Occam's Razor
Occam’s Razor, the English Department's literary magazine, is printed annually. Winners of the Robert V. Williams Memorial Contest, the Donald Markos Poetry Prize, and the Helen "Jackie" De Clercq Poetry Prize are featured in each issue. Occam’s Razor was launched in 1989 by Donald Markos, English professor at CSUEB from 1966–1999, in an attempt to showcase students’ works in creative writing and the arts.
Fresno
San Joaquin Review
Established in 1963, the San Joaquin Review is an annually published literary journal featuring the poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art of Fresno State students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Graduate students in the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing serve as editors and editorial assistants, and they are responsible for all phases of creating the journal--from selecting the work to producing the final publication. The SJR has published past students and faculty at Fresno State including: Philip Levine, Sherley Anne Williams, Lawson Fusao Inada, Liza Wieland, Larry Levis, Peter Everwine, C. G. Hanzlicek, Luis Omar Salinas, Glover Davis, Gary Soto, Brian Turner, and many others.
Fullerton
DASH Literary Journal
First published in 2008, Dash publishes poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, micro literary criticism, hybrid texts, and artwork by authors and artists of all levels of experience, from first-time submitters through well-published creators. While the works themselves cover a diverse range of topics, themes, and styles, successful DASH submissions are brief, concentrated expressions of creativity, with an emphasis on brevity. DASH is one of several publications produced at CSU Fullerton.
Humboldt
Toyon Multilingual Journal of Literature and Art
Toyon Multilingual Journal of Literature and Art at Humboldt State University is a student-run platform for voices in written or spoken word and art. Toyon recognizes diversity across disciplines, cultures, and regional boundaries with an emphasis on inclusivity, intersectionality, and multilingualism. The journal publishes in print, digital, and audio formats.
Long Beach
Riprap Journal
Rip Rap is a literary journal designed and produced annually by students in the Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing program at California State University Long Beach (CSULB). Since its inception in 1951, the journal has evolved from its original title, Hornspoon, until it was renamed Gambit and finally, in 1979, Rip Rap.
Los Angeles
Statement Magazine
Statement is a creative and critical expression of Cal State LA since 1950. Creative because this work is our work; it is a living, breathing embodiment of CSULA's artistry and articulation. Critical because our students, faculty, and distinguished guest writers fill these pages earnestly, simultaneously reflecting and refracting the very human experiences we all share. More importantly, the magazine is a space, a safe space not limited to just writers or the humanities. We welcome the thoughts and ideas of computer majors and mathematicians, the financially-savvy and the scientifically-driven, from engineers to entrepreneurs, we offer a place to express and share.
Maritime Academy
Dead Reckoning
Recently established, Dead Reckoning is Cal Maritime's first lit journal. The online journal offers poems, stories, and more: all by students in the Department of Culture & Communication.
Monterey Bay
In the Ords
In The Ords is the CSUMB student produced Literary Arts Journal. Recently established, the journal is dedicated to showcasing the creative work and artistic expression of CSUMB students. In the Ords is entirely staffed, edited, and produced by student volunteers who are part of the affiliated club on campus. Its inaugural issue, published digitally in December 2017, featured the exceptional work of eleven students in the genres of poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, photography, and short film. All submissions were judged anonymously by staff editors. The joural is published on Digital Commons.
Northridge
The Northridge Review
The Northridge Review is a literary & arts journal of the present, produced by students in the creative writing program at California State University, Northridge. Founded in 1962 as a campus publication of student work, The Northridge Review publishes prose, poetry, drama, art, and hybrid texts from across all disciplines that test the boundaries of form, content, and genre by exploring the current literary and cultural climate in thoughtful and challenging ways.
Pomona
Harvest International
A student-edited literary journal, Harvest International features poems, stories, essays and one-act plays with the goal of fostering student writers at Cal Poly Pomona. Run by a student editorial board advised by EML faculty, Harvest celebrates a diversity of languages and cultures, and publishes in English, French, German, Mandarin, and Spanish.
Pomona Valley Review
Pomona Valley Review is an online literary journal that receives submissions from numerous countries, universities, and freelancers across the globe in the fields of poetry, short fiction, and art, offering members of the literary community a diverse space for reading, writing, and publishing across diverse genres and styles. Over the past thirteen years, the journal has evolved into a (post)modern publication where the editors seek to experience the work of different communities and expressions, of different backgrounds and aesthetics, and most of all, of the new, the complex, the partially exposed, the unknown. PVR is currently seeking poetry, art, and fiction work for its ninth online issue this June. PVR publishes mostly work written in English, but are now eager to see submissions in Spanish, as well.
Sacramento
Calaveras Station
Calaveras Station is the literary journal for Sacramento State, where selected student writings are published in the areas of short fiction, creative nonfiction, critical analysis, and poetry. Calaveras Station Literary Journal provides publication opportunities for all currently enrolled students writing short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and memoir. Students work as editors and are involved in soliciting and evaluating submissions for possible publication. Calaveras Station Literary Journal is published annually, and is presented to the public at a release party at which time published students read their works.
San Bernardino
Ghost Town
Ghost Town is an international literary magazine curated by California State University San Bernardino. We’re looking for fearless and inventive fiction, flash fiction, poetry, essays and translations. The journal, curated by MFA students at CSU San Bernardino, publishes reviews, interviews, and literary work. The journal is currently on hiatus.
Pacific Review
The Pacific Review is a student-led literary magazine housed at California State University, San Bernardino. We seek to bridge literary, artistic, and political conversations between students, local communities in San Bernardino, the Inland Empire, and beyond. Motivated by the pressing concerns of our students, campus, and local communities, we seek to foster critical and imaginative dialogue about literature, literary practices, and creative processes. We seek ambitious and thoughtfully crafted work in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, playwriting, screenwriting, comics, photography, visual art, cross-genre and experimental forms. As of Fall 2018, we will publish rolling content online throughout the academic year and our efforts will culminate in an annual print issue in the Spring.
San Diego
Poetry International
Poetry International is one of the oldest and most respected literary journals in the world that’s specifically dedicated to poetry and poetics from around the globe. Over the years, our annual journal has published work by such authors as Nobel Laureates Derek Walcott, Wislawa Szymborska, Jose Saramago, Eugenio Montale, Gabriela Mistral, Tomas Transtomer, Wole Soyinka, Seamus Heaney, Pablo Neruda, and numerous others.
Fiction International
Fiction International is the only literary journal in the United States emphasizing formal innovation and social activism. Founded by Joe David Bellamy in 1973 at St. Lawrence University in New York, the journal was relocated to San Diego State University in 1982 and is edited by Harold Jaffe. Each issue revolves around a theme and features a wide variety of fiction, nonfiction, indeterminate prose, and visuals by leading writers and artists from around the world.
pacificREVIEW
Since 1977, pacificREVIEW: A West Coast Arts Review Annual (formerly Pacific Poetry and Fiction Review) has thrived as an experimental editorial cohort made up of driven, wily, undergraduates & graduate students in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at SDSU. It is one of several publications offered by the department.
San Francisco
Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review , published by SFSU Creative Writing graduate students, an international literary journal with a national circulation, had its first issue in fall, l994. It is open to all writers to submit, for more information please follow the link to 14Hills.net.
Transfer Magazine, is an SFSU undergraduate run student literary magazine which has been published at San Francisco State University since l956. The magazine only publishes work by currently enrolled students at SFSU. To submit a writing sample, please follow the guidelines here; https://transfermagazine.submittable.com/submit
New American Writing, edited by Paul Hoover, is affiliated with the department and partially funded by donations made to the College of Liberal & Creative Arts. Now in its 53rd issue (30 issues as NAW), it was founded in 1971 as OINK! Magazine. It publishes international, national and local poets and prose writers including occasional contributions from faculty and students of the SFSU Creative Writing program.
San José
Reed Magazine
Reed Magazine is honored to feature the works of emerging authors alongside notable pieces by literary lions: nonfiction by Pulitzer Prize-winner William Finnegan, verse by U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass, fiction by PEN/Faulkner-winner T.C. Boyle, and National Book Award-winner Ursula K. Le Guin. In addition, we publish original profiles of authors connected to the Golden State, examining their take on life and art. Reed is California’s oldest literary journal. Tracing its heritage to 1867, the journal started as a mere pamphlet published by students of the California State Normal School, the precursor of San José State University. In its long history, Reed has remained a literary hub, which today publishes fiction, poetry, essays, profiles, and art from around the world.
San Luis Obispo
Byzantium
Byzantium is the English department's award-winning annual literary journal produced entirely by undergraduate students. Begun in 1990, Byzantium has published literary works of remarkable quality. All work accepted for publication in the journal is automatically considered in Cal Poly's longstanding annual Al Landwehr Fiction Writing & Kevin Clark Poetry Writing Contests, for which undergraduate and graduate students from all majors submit their work. Three English majors are chosen to fulfill the positions of Managing Editor, Poetry Editor, and Fiction Editor. These students work in collaboration with a student art director chosen from the Art & Design Department. The editors of Byzantium earn senior project credit for their work. Numerous English majors compete for the privilege of editing the magazine, and those who are selected usually have editing experience, business acumen, desktop publishing skills, a fundraising vision, and the ability to work collaboratively under deadline. The magazine has been cited for its literary excellence and has twice won awards for design.
San Marcos
Sonoma
Zaum
ZAUM is entirely edited and designed by students. Any student, at either SSU or any other university, may submit their work to ZAUM. Each issue publishes over 100 pages a year of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or visual art, providing students with professional experience in layout, design, and marketing. The magazine is distributed throughout the Bay Area, and also receives some national and international distribution, as many contributors are students in other states and countries. ZAUM has received several national student awards from the Associated Writing Programs: for editorial vision (1996), and for graphic design (1998). Student work from issue # 6 and # 7 were nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize, a national prize open to any writer in the country. This program has existed at Sonoma State University for over 35 years: first as the Mandala, and since 1996, as ZAUM.
VOLT
VOLT was created on an unusually sunny afternoon in San Francisco in 1991. VOLT was originally published by the Pacific Film and Literary Association, a non-profit organization registered in California. VOLT is now housed at Sonoma State University. Innovative in design and content, VOLT publishes a range of adventurous writing. The magazine’s size (9″ by 12″) offers a larger space than usual for an individual poem or piece of prose. Often, work utilizing white space and typography can be found in VOLT. Founded and edited by poet Gillian Conoley, VOLT appears every spring. VOLT has received many awards and honors, including several Pushcart Prize Anthology selections, a Fund for Poetry grant, and several selections for the annual anthology, The Best American Poetry (Scribners). VOLT was named one of the top literary magazines in the country by Every Writers Resource and has received praise from the City Lights Booksellers and Publishers Blog. VOLT is produced with the assistance of Sonoma State University undergraduate and graduate students, who act as interns for the magazine each year.
Burning Daylight
Burning Daylight is an annual student journal, published through Sonoma State University’s Department of English graduate program, dedicated to providing a place for up and coming voices in the field of literature. We publish original critical and theoretical essays from B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. students that represent the current work, trends, and thoughts in literary criticism, composition, and rhetoric.
Stanislaus
Penumbra
Every spring semester since 1989, Penumbra has proudly published a literary and art journal run entirely by students, who make the editorial decisions, format the journal, and sell the ad space.
*Descriptions are copied from each journal's respective website. To update this page, please email [email protected].
Orpheus
Produced in the ENGL 4740 Editing Fiction for the Journal's course, Orpheus is an undergraduate and graduate literary journal of CSU-Bakersfield that was founded in 1975.
Channel Islands
Island Fox
Island Fox is an annual literary journal published by the Creative Writing Emphasis students at CSU Channel Islands meant to showcase the creative works of students, faculty, and alumni. Don’t miss out on your chance to get published and earn some bragging rights. We may be a hipster publication (you probably never hear of us), but we’re the real deal. We look forward to reading your poetry, fiction, nonfiction, one-act play, cartoon, travel journal, and photography submissions.
Chico
Watershed Review
The Watershed Review publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art. One poem or prose excerpt is chosen from each issue to be made into a broadside print through the Quoin Collective. Established in 1977, Watershed Review is the online literary publication at California State University, Chico. Housed in the English department, the magazine is produced by student editors seeking hands-on experience in literary editing and publishing. The journal's mission is to publish literature and visual art that illustrates diversity in thought and experience, and an awareness of literary tradition in conversation with the shifting edges of genre. Two times a year, we aim to publish both known and emerging authors side-by-side, featuring poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and art. Student editors who participate in the creation and maintenance of the Watershed Review learn valuable skills in publishing and editing, while gaining experience in the world of professional writing. Past issues of the journal can be accessed online.
Dominguez Hills
Enjambed Magazine
Enjambed is a Multi-Literacy Magazine composed of creative works including, but not limited to poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art. Enjambed is a collaborative effort among different departments on the CSU Dominguez Hills campus. Members from the English Graduate Association work together with the support of the English Department to select individual works for publication. Together with the Art and Design Department, the English Graduate Association chooses and designs a yearly issue that is distributed across campus. Enjambed is open to all current and former students across CSUDH and are encouraged to submit their work for consideration. Enjambed not only provides CSUDH students with the platform to publish their work, but it creates opportunities for students to manage and participate in the publication process.
East Bay
Arroyo Literary Review
Arroyo Literary Review, a critically acclaimed print journal, is produced annually by students and alumni at CSUEB. The journal accepts submissions from writers, poets, and artists worldwide. Each issue reflects the creative diversity found in the San Francisco Bay Area literary scene, while bringing together material from an international array of poets, writers, and artists. The premiere issue was released in Spring of 2009. Arroyo Literary Review is funded through the university and the generous contributions of individual donors. Arroyo welcomes submissions from new and established writers. We seek previously unpublished poetry, fiction, creative non fiction, personal essays, translations, and art that retains its vibrancy in black and white. The Spring 2009 issue, Spring 2012 issue, and Spring 2014 issue received strong reviews on NewPages. The journal was also rated one of the best literary journals for winter reading by The Montesserat Review.
Occam's Razor
Occam’s Razor, the English Department's literary magazine, is printed annually. Winners of the Robert V. Williams Memorial Contest, the Donald Markos Poetry Prize, and the Helen "Jackie" De Clercq Poetry Prize are featured in each issue. Occam’s Razor was launched in 1989 by Donald Markos, English professor at CSUEB from 1966–1999, in an attempt to showcase students’ works in creative writing and the arts.
Fresno
San Joaquin Review
Established in 1963, the San Joaquin Review is an annually published literary journal featuring the poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art of Fresno State students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Graduate students in the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing serve as editors and editorial assistants, and they are responsible for all phases of creating the journal--from selecting the work to producing the final publication. The SJR has published past students and faculty at Fresno State including: Philip Levine, Sherley Anne Williams, Lawson Fusao Inada, Liza Wieland, Larry Levis, Peter Everwine, C. G. Hanzlicek, Luis Omar Salinas, Glover Davis, Gary Soto, Brian Turner, and many others.
Fullerton
DASH Literary Journal
First published in 2008, Dash publishes poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, micro literary criticism, hybrid texts, and artwork by authors and artists of all levels of experience, from first-time submitters through well-published creators. While the works themselves cover a diverse range of topics, themes, and styles, successful DASH submissions are brief, concentrated expressions of creativity, with an emphasis on brevity. DASH is one of several publications produced at CSU Fullerton.
Humboldt
Toyon Multilingual Journal of Literature and Art
Toyon Multilingual Journal of Literature and Art at Humboldt State University is a student-run platform for voices in written or spoken word and art. Toyon recognizes diversity across disciplines, cultures, and regional boundaries with an emphasis on inclusivity, intersectionality, and multilingualism. The journal publishes in print, digital, and audio formats.
Long Beach
Riprap Journal
Rip Rap is a literary journal designed and produced annually by students in the Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing program at California State University Long Beach (CSULB). Since its inception in 1951, the journal has evolved from its original title, Hornspoon, until it was renamed Gambit and finally, in 1979, Rip Rap.
Los Angeles
Statement Magazine
Statement is a creative and critical expression of Cal State LA since 1950. Creative because this work is our work; it is a living, breathing embodiment of CSULA's artistry and articulation. Critical because our students, faculty, and distinguished guest writers fill these pages earnestly, simultaneously reflecting and refracting the very human experiences we all share. More importantly, the magazine is a space, a safe space not limited to just writers or the humanities. We welcome the thoughts and ideas of computer majors and mathematicians, the financially-savvy and the scientifically-driven, from engineers to entrepreneurs, we offer a place to express and share.
Maritime Academy
Dead Reckoning
Recently established, Dead Reckoning is Cal Maritime's first lit journal. The online journal offers poems, stories, and more: all by students in the Department of Culture & Communication.
Monterey Bay
In the Ords
In The Ords is the CSUMB student produced Literary Arts Journal. Recently established, the journal is dedicated to showcasing the creative work and artistic expression of CSUMB students. In the Ords is entirely staffed, edited, and produced by student volunteers who are part of the affiliated club on campus. Its inaugural issue, published digitally in December 2017, featured the exceptional work of eleven students in the genres of poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, photography, and short film. All submissions were judged anonymously by staff editors. The joural is published on Digital Commons.
Northridge
The Northridge Review
The Northridge Review is a literary & arts journal of the present, produced by students in the creative writing program at California State University, Northridge. Founded in 1962 as a campus publication of student work, The Northridge Review publishes prose, poetry, drama, art, and hybrid texts from across all disciplines that test the boundaries of form, content, and genre by exploring the current literary and cultural climate in thoughtful and challenging ways.
Pomona
Harvest International
A student-edited literary journal, Harvest International features poems, stories, essays and one-act plays with the goal of fostering student writers at Cal Poly Pomona. Run by a student editorial board advised by EML faculty, Harvest celebrates a diversity of languages and cultures, and publishes in English, French, German, Mandarin, and Spanish.
Pomona Valley Review
Pomona Valley Review is an online literary journal that receives submissions from numerous countries, universities, and freelancers across the globe in the fields of poetry, short fiction, and art, offering members of the literary community a diverse space for reading, writing, and publishing across diverse genres and styles. Over the past thirteen years, the journal has evolved into a (post)modern publication where the editors seek to experience the work of different communities and expressions, of different backgrounds and aesthetics, and most of all, of the new, the complex, the partially exposed, the unknown. PVR is currently seeking poetry, art, and fiction work for its ninth online issue this June. PVR publishes mostly work written in English, but are now eager to see submissions in Spanish, as well.
Sacramento
Calaveras Station
Calaveras Station is the literary journal for Sacramento State, where selected student writings are published in the areas of short fiction, creative nonfiction, critical analysis, and poetry. Calaveras Station Literary Journal provides publication opportunities for all currently enrolled students writing short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and memoir. Students work as editors and are involved in soliciting and evaluating submissions for possible publication. Calaveras Station Literary Journal is published annually, and is presented to the public at a release party at which time published students read their works.
San Bernardino
Ghost Town
Ghost Town is an international literary magazine curated by California State University San Bernardino. We’re looking for fearless and inventive fiction, flash fiction, poetry, essays and translations. The journal, curated by MFA students at CSU San Bernardino, publishes reviews, interviews, and literary work. The journal is currently on hiatus.
Pacific Review
The Pacific Review is a student-led literary magazine housed at California State University, San Bernardino. We seek to bridge literary, artistic, and political conversations between students, local communities in San Bernardino, the Inland Empire, and beyond. Motivated by the pressing concerns of our students, campus, and local communities, we seek to foster critical and imaginative dialogue about literature, literary practices, and creative processes. We seek ambitious and thoughtfully crafted work in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, playwriting, screenwriting, comics, photography, visual art, cross-genre and experimental forms. As of Fall 2018, we will publish rolling content online throughout the academic year and our efforts will culminate in an annual print issue in the Spring.
San Diego
Poetry International
Poetry International is one of the oldest and most respected literary journals in the world that’s specifically dedicated to poetry and poetics from around the globe. Over the years, our annual journal has published work by such authors as Nobel Laureates Derek Walcott, Wislawa Szymborska, Jose Saramago, Eugenio Montale, Gabriela Mistral, Tomas Transtomer, Wole Soyinka, Seamus Heaney, Pablo Neruda, and numerous others.
Fiction International
Fiction International is the only literary journal in the United States emphasizing formal innovation and social activism. Founded by Joe David Bellamy in 1973 at St. Lawrence University in New York, the journal was relocated to San Diego State University in 1982 and is edited by Harold Jaffe. Each issue revolves around a theme and features a wide variety of fiction, nonfiction, indeterminate prose, and visuals by leading writers and artists from around the world.
pacificREVIEW
Since 1977, pacificREVIEW: A West Coast Arts Review Annual (formerly Pacific Poetry and Fiction Review) has thrived as an experimental editorial cohort made up of driven, wily, undergraduates & graduate students in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at SDSU. It is one of several publications offered by the department.
San Francisco
Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review , published by SFSU Creative Writing graduate students, an international literary journal with a national circulation, had its first issue in fall, l994. It is open to all writers to submit, for more information please follow the link to 14Hills.net.
Transfer Magazine, is an SFSU undergraduate run student literary magazine which has been published at San Francisco State University since l956. The magazine only publishes work by currently enrolled students at SFSU. To submit a writing sample, please follow the guidelines here; https://transfermagazine.submittable.com/submit
New American Writing, edited by Paul Hoover, is affiliated with the department and partially funded by donations made to the College of Liberal & Creative Arts. Now in its 53rd issue (30 issues as NAW), it was founded in 1971 as OINK! Magazine. It publishes international, national and local poets and prose writers including occasional contributions from faculty and students of the SFSU Creative Writing program.
San José
Reed Magazine
Reed Magazine is honored to feature the works of emerging authors alongside notable pieces by literary lions: nonfiction by Pulitzer Prize-winner William Finnegan, verse by U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass, fiction by PEN/Faulkner-winner T.C. Boyle, and National Book Award-winner Ursula K. Le Guin. In addition, we publish original profiles of authors connected to the Golden State, examining their take on life and art. Reed is California’s oldest literary journal. Tracing its heritage to 1867, the journal started as a mere pamphlet published by students of the California State Normal School, the precursor of San José State University. In its long history, Reed has remained a literary hub, which today publishes fiction, poetry, essays, profiles, and art from around the world.
San Luis Obispo
Byzantium
Byzantium is the English department's award-winning annual literary journal produced entirely by undergraduate students. Begun in 1990, Byzantium has published literary works of remarkable quality. All work accepted for publication in the journal is automatically considered in Cal Poly's longstanding annual Al Landwehr Fiction Writing & Kevin Clark Poetry Writing Contests, for which undergraduate and graduate students from all majors submit their work. Three English majors are chosen to fulfill the positions of Managing Editor, Poetry Editor, and Fiction Editor. These students work in collaboration with a student art director chosen from the Art & Design Department. The editors of Byzantium earn senior project credit for their work. Numerous English majors compete for the privilege of editing the magazine, and those who are selected usually have editing experience, business acumen, desktop publishing skills, a fundraising vision, and the ability to work collaboratively under deadline. The magazine has been cited for its literary excellence and has twice won awards for design.
San Marcos
Sonoma
Zaum
ZAUM is entirely edited and designed by students. Any student, at either SSU or any other university, may submit their work to ZAUM. Each issue publishes over 100 pages a year of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or visual art, providing students with professional experience in layout, design, and marketing. The magazine is distributed throughout the Bay Area, and also receives some national and international distribution, as many contributors are students in other states and countries. ZAUM has received several national student awards from the Associated Writing Programs: for editorial vision (1996), and for graphic design (1998). Student work from issue # 6 and # 7 were nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize, a national prize open to any writer in the country. This program has existed at Sonoma State University for over 35 years: first as the Mandala, and since 1996, as ZAUM.
VOLT
VOLT was created on an unusually sunny afternoon in San Francisco in 1991. VOLT was originally published by the Pacific Film and Literary Association, a non-profit organization registered in California. VOLT is now housed at Sonoma State University. Innovative in design and content, VOLT publishes a range of adventurous writing. The magazine’s size (9″ by 12″) offers a larger space than usual for an individual poem or piece of prose. Often, work utilizing white space and typography can be found in VOLT. Founded and edited by poet Gillian Conoley, VOLT appears every spring. VOLT has received many awards and honors, including several Pushcart Prize Anthology selections, a Fund for Poetry grant, and several selections for the annual anthology, The Best American Poetry (Scribners). VOLT was named one of the top literary magazines in the country by Every Writers Resource and has received praise from the City Lights Booksellers and Publishers Blog. VOLT is produced with the assistance of Sonoma State University undergraduate and graduate students, who act as interns for the magazine each year.
Burning Daylight
Burning Daylight is an annual student journal, published through Sonoma State University’s Department of English graduate program, dedicated to providing a place for up and coming voices in the field of literature. We publish original critical and theoretical essays from B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. students that represent the current work, trends, and thoughts in literary criticism, composition, and rhetoric.
Stanislaus
Penumbra
Every spring semester since 1989, Penumbra has proudly published a literary and art journal run entirely by students, who make the editorial decisions, format the journal, and sell the ad space.
*Descriptions are copied from each journal's respective website. To update this page, please email [email protected].
