Submit Your Work

 

The submission deadline for our Spring 2024 Journal is May 5 for fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and art.​

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Westwind accepts submissions of original, unpublished literary and visual artwork in any genre. We publish digital journals in Fall, Winter, and Spring. 

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If your submission falls outside the submission period, it will roll over into the following reading period.

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General questions may be sent to westwinducla@gmail.com

 

Submission Guidelines

 

Format the subject line of your email as [Category] Submission – [Author Name]. 

 

(For example: “Fiction Submission – Jo Bruin”​)

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Submit all written pieces as a “.doc” or “.docx” file AND “.pdf” file. Submit art in whatever file is most appropriate, ".JPEG" and ".PNG" preferred. Submit all images at the highest quality possible. 

 

Please include in your submission:

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1. Your name

2. Contact email

3. UCLA affiliation OR affiliation to the greater Los Angeles community

4. 2-5 sentence author bio

5. How you found out about Westwind

6. Trigger or content warnings related to your submission (if any)

 

Specific Genre Requirements

 

FICTION

Please send up to 3 individual works (up to 3500 words collectively). Excerpts from longer prose pieces are acceptable if self-contained. Send submissions and/or questions to: westwindfiction@gmail.com.

 

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Please send up to 3 individual works (up to 3500 words collectively). Excerpts from longer prose pieces are acceptable if self-contained. Prose works from all genres or non-genres are acceptable. Send submissions and/or questions to: westwindcnf@gmail.com.

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POETRY

Please send up to 3 individual poems (up to 750 words collectively). All forms and styles, including experimental genres, are acceptable! Send submissions and/or questions to westwindpoetry@gmail.com.

 

ART

Please send up to 5 digital images of artwork of any kind, in any medium, and include a medium/ materials/ process statement for each piece. Alternative, non-traditional, and mixed-media artwork is acceptable and encouraged. Musical compositions and recordings may be sent as a soundcloud or mp3 link. Artist statement for submissions is optional but encouraged. Send submissions and/or questions to westwindarts@gmail.com.

 

BLOG

Please send up to 3 pieces of any article genre (cultural criticism, longform review, etc.). While we accept submissions of any length, most of our published pieces run between 1000-1500 words. Send submissions and/or questions to: blog.westwind@gmail.com.

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(hybrid pieces may be sent to whichever email seems most fitting)