submissions contact info blog patrons ads subscriptions masthead & contact info Facebook old links   pacific REVIEW 2000 pacific REVIEW 2001 2002 book release gala Seeking Poets, Writers, Designers, Artists... We're looking for creative humans. This year's pacificREVIEW: A West Coast Arts Review Annual asks what "Tomorrow" means to you.  Throughout history, storytellers and artists have been the unsung architects of the future. Envisioning the world as it may be through neon lenses or a glass, darkly. Tomorrow seems daunting in complete darkness, so we call upon storytellers and artists once more to be soothsayers. Five seconds from now, the day after today, twenty-five years later, or the year 3000, lend the world your vision and walk us into the times ahead.  Through visual art, poetry, prose, physical or digital, this year's contributors are asked to look forward and define what tomorrow looks like to them. Please submit your essays, art, photography, poetry, short stories, music or comix! Digital-born and experimental work is welcome and encouraged! Submit via our portal on SUBMITTABLE --> https://pacrev.submittable.com/submit/308560/afterwords-call-for-submissions We are excited to announce the publication of pacREV 2024 the BODY issue. Now available direct from SDSU Press or via Amazon! pacificREVIEW 2024 BODY edited by Helena Westra Publisher ‏SDSU Press (May 6, 2024)    Paperback ‏ : ‎ 134 pages     ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1938537688     ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1938537684 USA $22.00 ody, the 2024 edition of San Diego State University Press's oldest literary journal, pacREV, has just been published. The Body issue was edited by artist Helena Westra, and her magnificent team of arts con-conspirators. The full color issue is printed on archival gloss paper and includes contributions by poets, writers, photographers, and artists including: Kitty Knorr, Jacquelin Molina Guillen & Marcel Mawulorm Johansen, Kitty Knorr, Jonathan B. Aibel, Katherine Rinehart, Paul Rabinowitz, Rema Ghassan Shbaita, Kini Sosa, Mareli Gutierrez, Molly Lanzarotta, Jonathan B. Aibel, Xochi Cartland, Justin Hammond, Ren Alexandra McKinnell, Eleanor Levine, Amorak Huey, Caitlin Stuckey, JC Alfier, Paul Rabinowitz, Jerl Surratt, Grace Schnapp, Sofia Dell'Aquila, Corina Villena-Aldama, Abigail Bitter, Avery Ng, Ethan Chan, Anna Abraham Gasaway, Destiny Brown, Jake Dennis, Toki Lee, Bradley Medina, Alexa Ariizumi, Alexa Arizumi, Avery Ng, Kini Sosa, Antoni Szostak, Al Dawson, Amanda DiGiovanni, Adele Gaburo, Gracie Moon, Al Dawson, Hana Foo, Hana Foo, Glenna Trone, Bella Bonnin, Giovan Michael, Jack Hinzo, Robert Lang, Leila Dessouky, Paloma Burner, Lucky Dasari, Cassandra Jordan, Norma Sadler, Neil Kendricks, Matt Schumacher, Sofia Dell'Aquila, Rebecca Harooni, Angela Pankosky, Grace Schnapp, Roger Camp, Maria McLeod, Doreen Beyer, Amy Small-McKinney, Irina Tall Novikova, Xochi Cartland, Olivia Prior, Jayne Marek, Xiaoly Li, JC Alfier, V. Bray, Salem Holden, Roger Camp, Antoni Szostak, Ryan Hedrick, Miles Sequoia, Reyes Breanna, "Nana" Rohde, Barbara Hunt, Jules Travis, Nayeli Nova Fernández, and David Sheskin. Here are some snapshots from the issue: Our BODY issue call for submissions is now OPEN on, wait for it ... SUMITTABLE! click here or the image below! Illustration via unsplash.com -- featuring the photography of Janosch Lino his year, pacificREVIEW: A West Coast Arts Review Annual celebrates the BODY. There is no one right way to inhabit or understand our bodies -- these moving, breathing, sweating, sleeping, dancing, shaking, crying, loving, powerful bodies. Fear not the animal body you are born in. Embrace natural processes. Embrace others’ bodies. Listen to your own. Through visual art, poetry, and prose, this year's contributors express their understanding of the body and what embodiment means to them, inviting us to listen in and experience the physical. Issue Published! Submissions window closed ... We are accepting all kinds of submissions on October 1st -- essays, art, photography, poetry, short stories, or comix! NOW ON SALE! The New ALL COMIX, ALL GRAPHIC NARRATIVE SPECIAL EDITION OF pacREV 2023 Edited by Giovan Michael and a merry band of amazing folx! Click the cover opposite and pick up a copy now! Direct from SDSU Press or via ... or over 40 years, the one and only pacificREVIEW: A West Coast Arts Review Annual has published emerging and established writers of poetry, fiction, and prose. Now, for the first time in the storied life of this small yet mighty publication, our ever-evolving journal has turned its eye to the world of graphic narrative, highlighting over 30 artists telling moving and important stories through comics, collage, graphic poetry, and more. This beautiful edition is an explosion of color, emotion, art, and political dissent. It is loud, irreverent, and patiently waiting to be experienced by you. Contributors include Norma Sadler, Adele Gaburo, Helena Westera, Rema Shbaita, Abigail Bitter, Marie Sosa, Patrick McEvoy, Mariana Tapia, Breanna “Nana” Rohde, Paola Ramirez, Emily Teaze,, Ashley Lavisesdeh, Mariana Tapia, Neil Kendricks, Annie Rue, Adele Gaburo, Dylan Wells, Robert Lang, Bradley Medina, Cassandra Jordan, Andrew Smith, Christopher Reynoso, Rafael Flores, Alexa Ariizumi, Sinai Wright, Tatiana Bohorquez, Lucky Dasari, Amy Burton, Kyra Williams, Paloma Burner, Yao Xiao, Jacquelin Molina Guillen, Kirstin Curtis, Annie Rue, Nayeli Nova Fernandez, and Iris Quiroga. Some random snapshots from this gorgeous, full color, comix collection:       pacREV 2023 NO LONGER Accepting Submissions! The semiotic image portal is closed Submit to our special graphic edition of Pacific review 2023 today! ⤵️ http://pacrev.submittable.com/submit/244660/pacific-review-graphic-edition All call for submissions that you run across below are closed; only information and images that appear ABOVE  this notice is live, real, vital, pulsating etc! pacREV 2022 ATLANTIS and Other Lost Places Get lost in ATLANTIS... This year pacificREVIEW 2022 (“ATLANTIS and other lost places”) focuses on loss, and works to define a concept so familiar and yet still so abstract. The contributors this year come from all over the globe, each contributor contextualizing loss with different mindframes and life experiences. Nonetheless, each piece transcends the geographic separation of the artists and shows us how loss is a universal feeling. “ATLANTIS” shows the pain, the recovery, the comfort, and the whole bittersweet experiences of life's most unavoidable feeling. pacificREVIEW dedicates itself to exploring these links between all human beings. We, the editors of the 2022 edition, hope that this collection of mixed media art, poetry, and prose make the world feel a little smaller and our worldwide community feel a little closer. [Editors] Abigail A. Jones, Caroline Hendricks, Jamie Kristine Oram, Miya Domingo, and Parker Alex Watson. [Contributors] Aaliya Sehar, Abigail Hora, Alessio Zanelli, Amy Barone, Amy Marques, Andrew Mobbs, Ann Calandro, Arlene Tribbia, Audrey Forbes, Dani Kei Jochums, David Sheskin, Diane Gottlieb, D.S. Maolalai, Ellen Austin-Li, Gabino A. Castelán, Hana S. Elysia, Ian Ramsey, Jacqueline Coleman-Fried, J.R. Jacobs, Jill Evans, Joanee Clarkson, John Muro, Kristin Berkey-Abbott, Lance Nizami, Louis Girón, Marisa P. Clark, Matthew Jiménez, Michael Mullen, Michael Washburn, Michelle Melton Cox, Paul Allatson, R.B. Simon, Raychelle Heath, Riley Sara Martinez, Roger Camp, Sharon Mast, Tess Kay, Wendy BooydeGraaff, Xiaoly Li.   Available NOW via AMAZON.COM    or, better, direct from SDSU PRESS -- use the "add to cart" button here (shhhh! only 99¢ shipping!) : Some snapshots of the new issue! click to enlarge! Follow us on Instagram! 2, August 2021 Now available! THE MIRROR MAZE, pacREV2021, edited by Nayeli Castañeda-Lechuga and crew! Featuring writers and artists from all over the planet! Click the image opposite to snap up a copy via Amazon.com or click the add-to-cart button below to get a copy direct from pacREV & SDSU Press. Order Direct from SDSU Press and pacREV, $16.95 + 99¢ shipping! MORE INFO: When you are forced to confront your own image, what is it that you see? Our 2021 edition of pacificREVIEW, “The Mirror Maze,” explores the complexity and fluidity of identity. Over fifty contributors, all of unique and diverse backgrounds, offer a response to the question posed above--a small glimpse at what it means to be human in the 21st century and in the 2020’s. Whether through poetry, short story, creative nonfiction, or visual art, “The Mirror Maze” showcases pieces that speak of ethnicity and culture, mental illness, familial relationships, trauma, sexual orientation, and more. Curated by four graduate-student women dedicated to inclusivity, “The Mirror Maze” provides a platform to writers and artists from across the U.S. and from various international regions. Editors: Nayeli Castañeda-Lechuga - Abigail Hora - Shekinah Kifer - Sara Schulke Contributors: Elizabeth Boquet - Masha Lisak - Paul Bufis - Matt L. Hall - Eric Rawson - Ciera Lloyd - Micaela Accardi-Krown - Jeanette C. Vigliotti - Rachele Salvini - Takwa (Tee) Sharif - L. Kardon - Labdhi Shah - Emily Rankin - Kateryna Bortsova - KWONG Kwok Wai, Walter - Karyna Aslanova - Janice Fried - Marcie Wolf-Hubbard - doris e. rubio - Travis Stephens - Juan Cortez - Vanessa Rodriguez - M.A. Dubbs - Polchate (Jam) Kraprayoon - LeShun Smith - Mario Loprete - Guilherme Bergamini - Carrie Albert - Ali Headley - Coco Spencer - Nick Lamia - Katlin Marisol Sweeney - Keily V. Maldonado - Gregory Francis Royse II - Matty Penner - Ernst Perdriel - Shannon Steinkamp - Robert Bear - Tomas Nieto - Andres Enrique Mendoza - Dale Stromberg - RC deWinter - Allison Whittenberg - Jeffrey H. MacLachlan - Madi Giovina - Aimee Lowenstern - McKenna Themm - Emily Joy Oomen - Eric Odynocki - David Radavich - Evelyn Burd - Obinna Chilekezi - Kaylianne Chaffee Table of Contents click to enlarge 21, September 2020 n a mirror maze, where everything is reflected repeatedly, the subject must confront their own image. With every turn, a new angle results in a different perspective, exposing the subject to multiple facets of themselves. When we apply this to the ways in which humans view their identity, we can also say that their self-perception is dependent on the context that surrounds them. Through this edition of pacificREVIEW, we attempt to explore the complexities and the fluidity of identity. How does our progressive learning of the communities around us shape or alter the reflection we see in the mirror? What aspects of our being contribute to our understanding of our identity? When we are forced to confront our own image, what is it that we see? SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED UNTIL DECEMBER 13, 2020 **SUBMIT TO: pacrev.submittable.com/submit ** SUBMISSIONS CLOSED FOR MIRROR MAZE! SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: pacificREVIEW considers only previously unpublished work. You may submit up to a total of three pieces of work from any genre for consideration in this edition. When submitting content, we highly recommend that you include a statement regarding how your work responds to the edition theme. Simultaneous submissions: We ask that if any of your pieces are simultaneously submitted elsewhere, this information be included in your cover letter. If the piece is accepted elsewhere, please notify us immediately. Poetry · Limit: 2 typed-pages per poem · Format: Microsoft Word document (.doc, .docx) Prose · Prose includes short stories, creative non-fiction, flash fiction, experimental form fiction/nonfiction, etc. · Limit: 5,000 words per piece (please submit double-spaced, unless the form is contingent to certain spacing) · Format: Microsoft Word document (.doc, .docx) Visual Art · Visual Art includes photography, traditional medium art (pencil, paint, ink, etc.), digital art, mixed media, graphic narrative*, etc. *Graphic narrative panels must fit two pages/one page-spread. · Format: Please submit as a high resolution (300 dpi) PDF. pacificReview is committed to publishing work that is diverse in its storytelling and artistic expression. pacREV 2021 Submission Info Coming Soon!!! Celebrate with us as we salute 42 years of indy publishing! pacREV 2021 Submission Info Coming Soon!!! pacREV Archive--anything you find below this banner with instructions for submissions is now defunct! However, links to our past issues are LIVE! Now Available! pacREV 2020 Synchronous Pick up your copy via AMAZON, or, via special offer at Paypal. CALL FOR PAPERS | CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS   Despite our constant unraveling, humans are bound to each other and are continually finding ways of becoming entangled with one another. Our platonic, romantic, and paternal bonds of love cause us to belong to each other. This fierce intimacy has the potential to stretch physical, emotional, and spiritual boundaries.   How do humans currently become entangled with each other? How do we love each other? Hate each other? Cooperate with one another? What connections are condemned and stigmatized? Should they be? How do our shared experiences enhance our individual perceptions?    Join us in our celebration and exploration of the ties that bind us together. We invite you to share about your experience with human bonds and contribute to the pacificREVIEW 2020 issue: synchronous.    Submissions will be accepted until December 20, 2019.     Submission Considerations: pacificREVIEW considers previously unpublished work. You may submit up to a total of three pieces of work from any genre for consideration in this edition. When submitting content, we highly recommend that you include a statement regarding how your work responds to the edition theme.      · Fiction and Creative Nonfiction: Limit 4,500 words, double spaced, attached as a Microsoft Word Document. Short stories and flash fiction are also encouraged.     · Poetry: Please limit your poems to no more than 2 typed pages, attached as a Microsoft Word Document.    · Photographs/drawings/artwork: Please submit as a high resolution (300 dpi) greyscale or black and white PDF.     · Graphic Narrative: Please in a high resolution (300 dpi) greyscale or black and white PDF. Panels must fit on two pages.   Electronic Submissions can be submitted here: http://bit.ly/pacrev20_sync   OR   Snail mail subs can be addressed to:   Emily Buckley, Miles Reyes Head Editrixes pacific REVIEW Dept. of English and Comparative Literature San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Dr. | MC6020 San Diego, CA 92182-6020   Check out our blog @ https://pacrev.blogspot.com Join us on Instagram! a west coast arts review annual Now Available! The Hallucination Issue pacificREVIEW 2019 Featuring (Click to enlarge) HALLUCINATION CALL FOR PAPERS | CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS pacificREVIEW: A West Coast Arts Review Annual is delighted to announce the theme for our 2019 issue: HALLUCINATION. How far does our perception stretch—what can you some of us see that others cannot? How does perception limit us? How do we define the so-called Twilight Zone? What rules do we adhere to as prescribed by the societal understanding of reality? What boundaries do we reside within before we are exposed to anti-reality? What happens beyond the veil of the here and now? Where is the line between what we consider tangible and intangible? When can we convince ourselves of what is surreal or unreal altogether and why? Just as a hallucination can destroy the fabric of what we consider reality, how could it also help or protect us? How many have been lost to liminal spaces akin to the Bermuda Triangle? What makes the waking world the truth? Why then are we shaken by prophetic or symbolic dreams – what happens when the dream becomes reality? Why does the hybrid of the unreal and real frighten us? Alice in the Rabbit Hole Join us down the Rabbit Hole. This year’s call for papers may delve into the global or extremely personal but all should address some aspect of the bountiful ways in which we experience and understand Hallucination.  Submission will be accepted until January 1, 2019. Please submit to only one of the following:  · Fiction and Creative Nonfiction: Please submit no more than one piece of work, limit 4,500 words, double spaced, attached as a Microsoft Word Document. Short stories and flash fiction are also encouraged.  · Poetry: You are welcome to submit 2-3 pieces of poetry. Please limit your poems to no more than 2 typed pages, attached as a Microsoft Word Document.  · Photographs/drawings/artwork: You may submit up to 10 pieces of artwork that cover a cohesive theme or style. Please submit as a high resolution (300 dpi) greyscale or black and white PDF.  · Graphic Narrative: Please submit no more than two pieces in a high resolution (300 dpi) greyscale or black and white PDF. Panels must fit on two pages.   How to Submit: click here! https://pacrev.submittable.com/submit We accept submissions both via Submittable and snail mail! Snail mail subs can be addressed to: Alex Cline, Autumn Reyes, Gayana Parsegova, Head Editrixes pacific REVIEW Dept. of English and Comparative Literature San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Dr. | MC6020 San Diego, CA 92182-6020 Now Available! pacificREVIEW 2018 Click here to buy via the SDSU Press / Amazon online store! La frontera occupies a political and geographical significance to folx residing in the Americas that cannot be overlooked, especially in our contemporary moment. As leading political figures and commentators feign empathy for the human rights violations of Latinxs at the border yet make no moves to intervene, it is clear that the work of unpacking the significant influence of la frontera as both a physical location and figurative space is relevant to both media discourse and creative work. Writing, art-making, and photography are forms of labor that must be pursued; they generate an activist space in which writers and creators can transgress dominant ideologies and demand attention for issues that may otherwise go overlooked. Contributors include Alejandro Pérez, Alexandra Cline, Amy Wack, Angela Pankosky, Angela Spring, Audra Puchalski, Avanti Arseculeratne, Brooke Petersen, Cyndy Garcia-Weyandt, Donia Mounsef, Ernesto Hernández, Fernando de Peña, Francis Flavin, Frederick Luis Aldama, Hannah Humphrey, Ivy Grimes, Jill Dery, Jill Marie Holslin, Jonathan Greenhause, Kate Kimball, Katlin Sweeney, Kendall Klym, Marie Parrish, Maryah Converse, Nathan Manley, Nicole Diwag, Nuno Neves, Rodrigo Vargas, Sandra Ramos O'Briant, Sean Coolican, Toti O'Brien, William Camargo, and Ximena Keogh Serrano. Guillermo Nericcio García, of memogr@phics designcasa (memo@sdsu.edu), designed the issue. UPDATE: SUBMISSION CYCLE NOW CLOSED! pacificREVIEW 2018: STATES OF LA FRONTERA pacificREVIEW is currently hosting an open call for submissions for our 2018 edition, “States of La Frontera” – an interdisciplinary, intersectional collection of work that grapples with the concept and image of “borders” as existing in multiple contexts. “States of La Frontera” refers to the literal and figurative borderlands of space and identity: the physical, geographical, emotional, spiritual, and temporal boundaries and possibilities of being. We are interested in works that embrace and complicate life at the intersection – works that resist hegemony, generalization, and singularity. “States of La Frontera” refuses translation and is open to works in English, Spanish, or a combination of the two. We accept submissions of poetry, flash fiction, short stories, creative non-fiction, memoir, essays, comics, collages, photography, and visual art. Submission Notes: pacificREVIEW considers previously unpublished work. You may submit up to three pieces of work from any genre for consideration in this edition. When submitting content, we highly encourage that you include a statement regarding how your work responds to the edition theme. Submission Period: October 14, 2017 – February 2, 2018 How to Submit: We accept submissions both via Submittable and snail mail! Digital subs can be sent to: https://pacrev.submittable.com/submit/97368/states-of-la-frontera-call-for-submissions Snail mail subs can be addressed to: Katlin Sweeney, Editor-in-Chief pacific REVIEW Dept. of English and Comparative Literature San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Dr. | MC 6020 San Diego, CA 92182-6020 *The illustration above is from the famous CRUZANDO FRONTERA conference, 1990, held in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, as documented in Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement by B. Ruby Rich; also see the interview here. Now Available! pacREV 2017 Errant Mythologies Edited by Hari Alluri, Carlos Kelly, and Breeann Kyte Kirby click to enlarge the wraparound cover Errant Mythologies pacREV2017 UPDATE February 6, 2018: We are happy to present the new edition of pacificREVIEW: A West Coast Arts Review Annual, edited by Hari Alluri, with Carlos Kelly & Breeann Kyte Kirby, entitled ERRANT MYTHOLOGIES. From the original call for papers: "We hope you interpret Errant Mythologies in all the senses of each word, their combinations and beyond. We hope our theme provokes work you wish you could run into for the first time. Offer us the tensions that bind your truths to what you deny, to the lies you love, to what you find undeniable: work that asks, in large or small ways, the big questions: work that is curious about the mystery itself: the errant mythologies that move you, trouble you, call you to experience and imagine them." Contributors include (in first name alphabetical order) : Adam Deutsch, Adrian Arancibia, Adrian Carrillo, Alix Sharpe, Andrea Walls, Arthur Kayzakian, Benny Biscuits, Carly Beesley, Carol Sadtler, Carolyn Moore, Christine Stoddard, Christopher Warner, Christy O'Connor, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Darren Demaree, Elena Botts, Erin Jourdan, Garrett Stack, Grant Price, Hanna Tawater, Heather Dobbins, Henry J. Erickson, Ishion Hutchinson, Jake Young, James Penha, Jeanne Julian, Jeanne Wagner, Jed Myers, Jessica Lakritz, Jim Ruland, John Brantingham, John Kirsch, Judith Skillman, Julia Dixon Evans, Justin Hudnall, Karl Elder, Kathy Rudin, Kazim Ali, Kenji C. Liu, Kevin Oberlin, Kevin Simmonds, Laurette Folk, Loren Smith, Lowell Jaegr, Maggie Graber, Marcella Remund, Michael Reid Busk, Michaelsun Knapp, Michelle Bonczek Evory, Nick Montgomery & carla bergman, Paul Sanchez, Rajiv Mohabir, Rebecca Durham, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Robert Miltner, Scott Chalupa, Stephanie Valente, tess free, Thea Prieto, Thomas J. Erickson, Timothy Walker, Veronica Scharf Garcia, Vi Khi Nao, Wendy Carlisle, and William Crawford. This edition of pacificREVIEW is published in small, old-school paperback form--great for carrying around in your pocket as you dash to your next reading, wander to that next coffeehouse, or stagger out of that next dive bar! SPECIAL OFFER FOR ERRANT MYTHOLOGY CONTRIBUTORS, FRIENDS, FAMILIA, CO-CONSPIRATORS, PARTNERS-IN-CRIME pacificREVIEW 2016 LURKING ANONYMITY now available at our Amazon.com online store (ask for you local indy bookstores to carry it!) On the surface, notoriety, visuality and celebrity culture oversaturate the information age. But what insidious formations lurk beneath the glossy surface? Faceless monsters dwell behind black screens—paradoxically both numbing factories of the masses and liberating tools of the dispossessed. Does this anonymity transform us into voiceless dolls that preserve the misogynistic power structures or grant us power through simulated online versions of ourselves. While menacing conglomerates practice institutionalized discrimination and witless pariahs face the backlash, moralized hackers expose hidden weaknesses that often bring those responsible to light. Does the rampant voyeurism of today signify a deep perversity or something more innocent and liberating that thrives in obscurity? What aspects of human nature are exposed with the burgeoning of artificial intelligence, online activism and twitter shaming? What masks do we wear and what secrets do they conceal? Our new, 2015 edition of pacificREVIEW is now available via the San Diego State University Press/Amazon.com online store--click the cover of VIVARIUM: pacificREVIEW 2015, edited by Ryan Kelly, with Dakota Lenz, and Shannon Snyder, opposite, to order your issue now! pacificREVIEW 2015: "Vivarium" A vivarium (Latin for "place of life") is an area, usually enclosed, for keeping and raising animals or plants for observation or research. Often, a portion of the ecosystem for a particular species is simulated on a smaller scale, a microcosm with controls for environmental conditions. We, as human beings, create vivariums for both ourselves and other species. In these environments of our own design (zoos, shopping malls, universities, cathedrals, etc.), we breathe simulation, observe phenomena both natural and unnatural, speak in symbols, and cypher our dreams. We are inhabitants of our creations, thriving in the flux between the abstract and the absolute. The newest issue of the pacificREVIEW seeks dynamic pieces of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic narratives, photography, and artwork that speak to this theme and interrogate the ever-blurring line between "real" and "unreal" settings. Submission Period: October 1st, 2014 - February 28th, 2015. NOW CLOSED How to submit: https://sdsupacificreview.submittable.com/submit pacificREVIEW 2014, Strangely Ever After, edited by Jacquelyn Phillips is now available for a special price at the San Diego State University Press amazon.com storefront--click the cover and experience the thrill of virtual teleportation! Coming soon! CALL FOR PAPERS for pacificREVIEW 2015 edited by Ryan Kelly!  More to come! Watch this space or visit our facebook entities here: https://www.facebook.com/pacREV and our older site here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/PacificReview/172345312860673?ref=hl pacificREVIEW: A West Coast Arts Review Annual 2014 Special Issue "Strangely Ever After" We are now accepting submissions all the way through February 1st 2013!  Don't be shy.  Embrace your quirkiness and send in your work - we want the strange and the unbelievable - the made-up and the fantastical.  Give us stories about traveling to France and only being able to speak one sentence in this unknown and foreign "new world" (at least it was new to you).  Or weave us a tale of rotten princesses, beautiful on the outside, but with the urge to kill on the inside.  Take pictures of the natural world in a naturally strange state.  Or create a sculpture that embodies the fairy tale in a grotesque fashion.  -Fiction and Creative Nonfiction: Submit only one story.  No simultaneous submissions.  Maximum 4500 words.  We do accept (and encourage) flash fiction. - Poetry: Submit 2 to 3 poems.  No simultaneous submissions.  Poems cannot exceed 2 typed pages. - Photographs/drawings/artwork: Submit 1 to 4 works.  Must be in black and white.  Photographs of your work of art are perfectly acceptable.  Please adhere to the theme! - Graphic Narrative: submit 2 to 3 pieces.  Must be in black and white.  Panels must fit on the length of two pages.  Please make legible. Along with your submission, please include a cover letter with the following information (or as much information as you can): 1) The genre of your piece (fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, etc. etc.) 2) First and last name 3) Degree and/or progress in school (if applicable) 4) What do you do for a living/dream of doing after you graduate? 5) Other publications (if applicable) PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR WORK TO THE FOLLOWING:   INFO.PACREV@GMAIL.COM OR VIA SNAIL MAIL AT: Jacquelyn Phillips, Editor-in-Chief pacific REVIEW Dept. of English and Comparative Literature San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Dr. | MC6020 San Diego, CA 92182-6020 If you have any further questions, need inspiration, or want to be updated frequently on the status of the journal, please follow pacificREVIEW on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pacREV Last Year's Special Issue: URBAN MYTHOS 2013 Get it now at the pacREV superstore @ amazon.com! We’re eagerly accepting submissions of short fiction/flash fiction, poetry, graphic narrative, photography, and creative nonfiction focusing on this theme. Written submissions must be 3,000 words or less and must be unpublished works. The submission deadline is 01.01.13. Click here for more submission information! Submit your minds and words to: -|-Via Email -|- INFO.PACREV@GMAIL.COM -|-Via Snail Mail -|- Editor-in-Chief, pacific REVIEW Dept. of English and Comparative Literature San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Dr. | MC6020 San Diego, CA 92182-6020   REVOLT pacificREVIEW, a West Coast Arts Review Literary Annual published by San Diego State University students in conjunction with San Diego State University Press, is currently accepting submissions for the 2010-2011 issue entitled “Revolt.” In this turbulent time, one can’t help but hear those buzz words over and over again . . . “economic crisis,” “recession,” “Paris Hilton stock index” . . . At pacificREVIEW, we are well aware of the plight of the “little people,” those who just can’t seem to cut a break in this Comfortable-American-eats-the-economically-smaller-American world.  Low-wage makers are forced to suffer through-- and are expected to receive-- piteous means for laborious efforts. But who says we have to put up with this?  pacificREVIEW says REVOLT.  We want to hear about your fight against it all, physically, spiritually, morally or any other______ly you can provide! We’re eagerly accepting submissions of short fiction/flash fiction, poetry, graphic narrative, photography, and creative nonfiction focusing on this theme. Written submissions must be 3,000 words or less.  The submission deadline is 01.01.11.  Please direct any questions to pacificreview_sdsu [at] yahoo [dot] com Submissions will be accepted in hard copy only. Send to: Editor-in-Chief, pacific REVIEW Dept. of English and Comparative Literature San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Dr., MC6020 San Diego, CA 92182-6020 Simultaneous submissions will not be accepted. bankRUPTURE CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! POETS, WRITERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, ILLUSTRATORS!!!!!   SEND US YOUR BEST STUFF!!!!! pacific REVIEW, a West Coast Arts Review literary Annual, published by San Diego State University undergrads in conjunction with San Diego State University Press, is currently accepting submissions for the 2009-2010 issue entitled “BANKRUPTURE”.  Short stories, flash fiction, creative non-fiction pieces, poetry, graphic narrative, illustrations, and photography touching on the theme of “cashing out and starting over” are encouraged. How does the individual or social body construct identity and meaning out of personal or collective financial, moral, and/or spiritual ruin? How does one re-invest in the re-creation and/or reconstruction of political, social, and religious institutions in times of bankruptcy?  pacific REVIEW editors are excited to receive submissions in the interest of creating a textual and visual artifact out of the ruins of rupture. UPDATED Submission deadline is March 1, 2010. Word count is 3,000 words. Please also enclose a self-addressed envelope. All submissions must be sent to: Joseph Robinson Borland josephborland AT ymail DOT com Editor-in-Chief, pacific REVIEW Dept. of English and Comparative Literature San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Dr., MC6020 San Diego, CA 92182-6020 now available! Our 2008-09 issue! order direct via LULU.COM--note, this link takes you OUTSIDE the hermetically-sealed, safe domain of sdsu.edu! hit the cover and teleport away..... OLD call for submissions! now over! don't submit till our new call appears, fall 2009! 2008-2009 Call for Submissions   pacificREVIEW is now accepting submissions in all genres for its 2008-2009 issue.  Send us your best work: fiction, poetry, non-fiction (essays, reviews), photography and art. We look forward to reading your work. Address it to:   pacifcREVIEW (genre, i.e. fiction, poetry) San Diego State University Dept. of English & Comp Lit Arts & Letters 226 San Diego, CA  92182-6020   The deadline for submissions is May 1st, 2008.   All the best, and happy writing,   Lester O’Connor, fiction editor Chrissy Rikkers, poetry editor SUBMISSIONS: pacificREVIEW welcomes submissions of previously unpublished poems, short stories, translations, and creative non-fiction, including essays and reviews.  We also accept submissions for art and cover art.   Submissions should be directed to the appropriate editor (Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, or Art) at:   pacificREVIEW (indicate genre) San Diego State University Dept. of English & Comp Lit Arts & Letters 226 San Diego, CA  92182-6020   GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION:   Fiction & other prose:  Mail submissions to the address above, Attention: Lester O’Connor, Fiction Editor.  Submissions should be typed on white, 8 1/2” x 11” paper. The title page should include the word count (no more 20 pages), as well as the author’s name and contact information.   Poetry:  Mail 3-5 poems to the address above, Attention: Chrissy Rikkers, Poetry Editor.  Submissions should be typed on white, 8 1/2” x 11” paper, and include the author’s name and contact information.   Translations: If submitting a translation, please include the original poems in the original language you are translating from, and be sure that you have acquired the rights from that author.   Art:  Mail up to 5 works of photography/art – any style – attention: Art Editor. Image files should be sent to us via email as attachments: 300dpi jpgs or tiff files.   PLEASE NOTE:   Enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) for notification.  Manuscripts will not be returned. If you would like to be notified by email instead, please indicate clearly an email address where we can contact you (and skip the SASE).   Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but please notify us immediately if the work you’ve sent us has been accepted elsewhere.   We do NOT accept electronic submissions.   ** Deadline for all submissions is May 1st, 2008 **

breaking news about a talented pacREV Author!!! > Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 14:57:44 -0600 > From: "Erin Pringle" > To: INFO.PACREV@GMAIL.COM > Subject: Good News--The Floating Order > > Dear Jenny and pacificReview: > > I'm writing to share the good news that my book _The Floating Order_ > has been accepted for publication by a small, new > press called Interbirth Books At the latest, the book > will be released (at the latest) May '09 at first as > a short run of hand-bound, hardback books and then into softcover. > > "Drift" is one of the stories in the book, and of > course, I'll list pacificREVIEW in the > acknowledgments page.  Again, thank you for enjoying > my story and the encouragement created by liking my work. > > Cheers, Erin Pringle  www.myspace.com/erinpringle

now available!!!! ...the 2007-2008 "polaroid" issue of pacific REVIEW!!! Edited by Jenny Minniti-Shippey, Joe Kane, and Reggie Hui!!!! Featuring the following works and artists! Editor’s Note                Jenny Minniti- Shippey    7 Traduttore, Traditore            Peter Moore        8 Transubstatiation                Roy Seeger          9 Little Red Riding Hood through the eye        Kristin Abraham        11 SomePlace Like This Gunshot Wedding                Lorene Delaney- Ullman    12 Decision    When Mary Gets Shot in the Head        Francine Witte        13 Marinara                    Scott Wiggerman        14 Etymology                Carrie J. Boden        15 Untitled                    Jackie Young        17 Drift                    Erin Pringle        18 Aromatics How to Fall in Love                Erin Elizabeth Smith        24 2007 Brushfire Award                        26 Dar a Luz                    Paula Brancato        27 2007 Brushfire Award Honorable Mention                    43 Three Poems                John Estes        44 Three Poems                Christopher Kennedy    51 The Bull                    Bill Teitelbaum        55 Look                    Toni and Zoe        57 Oakland Hills, 1991 The Wheel                Roy Kesey            58 After Reading Fennelly’s Open House    Maryland                    Brandi Homan        59 Homes                    Tracy Burkholder        61 October Home                    Louis E. Bourgeois        67 after                    Andrena Zawinski        68 In the Altogether                William Bert            69 Anonymous                Jim Lucio                77 Medusa                    Emily Tallman        78 Durio Zibethinus                Julie R. Enzer        79 After “The Death of Chatterton”        Karen Schubert        80 Warhol’s Shoes                Courtney Yip        81 eleven o’clock a.m., two years later Like Trees Are Supposed To            Lindsay D’Andrea        82 Autobiography Metaphoric                Jay Rubin            88 Magnolia                    Carine Topal        89 Closed                    Courtney Yip        90 San Francisco Poems            Thomas D. Drescher        91 Offloading the Wounded            Jeffrey Alfier        92 Frankie                    William Knorr        93 Skylight                    Carol Carpenter        97 Murmuration The Hope to Forget                Amanda Rachel Warren    98 Review: Shake by Joshua Beckman        Brian Morrison        100 20 Questions with Allan Gurganus                    102 !!2007 Brushfire award winner announced!! new call for submissions! pacificREVIEW 2008-2009 …a literary journal featuring original poetry, fiction, photography, art, translations, essays, non-fiction, and other provocative treats. …new, famous, and infamous writers welcome. Guidelines for submission before the April 1, 2008 deadline: -No previously published works. -Fiction/Essays/Non-Fiction, etc.: 20 pages or fewer.   -Poetry: 5 poems max—any style, any length -Photography/Art: 5 works, any style -Translations: Include the original work in its original language. Be sure you have the rights from the author/publisher before you submit your translation(s). We prefer if said original work is in the public domain. What to include: -a self-addressed stamped envelope -a cover page with name, contact info, and titles of work -NO NAMES ON SUBMISSIONS -enclose a paragraph-length bio with your work as SEPARATE DOCUMENT from your submissions. -image files should be sent to us as 300dpi jpgs or tiff files attached to an email. Send us your best, and we’ll give it our undivided attention. Address it like this: Chrissy Rikkers and Lester O'Connor pacificREVIEW 2008-2009 Department of English & Comparative Literature  San Diego State University  5500 Campanile Dr.  San Diego, CA 92182-6020 Now available!!!!! The 2006-2007 NOSTALGIA: VERBAL AND VISUAL relic issue of pacific REVIEW: A West Coast Arts Review Annual, edited by Kristin Clough is now published and available for use in undergraduate courses, writing workshop seminars, and to the general public.  It's the largest issue of pacific REVIEW ever published with over 225 pages of poetry, stories, art, photography, and more. Order it now from our secure servers at lulu.com or via amazon here. Edited by Kristin Clough and Joseph Borland. The Nostalgia Issue of pacific REVIEW 2006-7 features contributions by KC Wilder, Michael Verlangieri, John Paul Colgan, Mercedes Lawry, Amy Bilodeau, Donna J. Gelagotis Lee, Mercedes Lawry, Matthew Woodman, Chelsea Day, Jim Daniels, Joshua Weber, Ron Thomas, Silvia Valentino, James W. Stoner, Erin A. Thomas, Peter Larson, Uma Narayan, Nickolas Brian Henderson, Zebulon Huset, Patrick Carrington, Ned McCormick, Robert McGuill, Matt Zambito, Sarah Kohler, Mary Julia Klimenko, Mark Grinyer, Ruth Sabath Rosenthal, Alice Indigo, Barbara Jane Reyes, Larry Christ, Michelle Amas, Katie Hammersly, Saroum Vun, Dennis H. Leem, David Isaacs, Amy Bildeau, Lisa Siegel, Robert Parham, Dawn Garrett, Rachel May, Robert Parham, Sarah Kohler, Donna J. Gelagotis Lee, Tom Wesley, Pouya Johanshahi, Michael Fitzell, Dawn Garrett, Michael Fitzell, Karen Stromberg, David Isaacs, Gabriel Bravo, K. Carlton Johnson, Arlene Tribbia, Cheri Alma Ayers, Khadine Kubal, Jim Daniels, Thomas Juvik. Gabriel Bravo, Nickolay Todorov, Jodie Isles, Adam Oskam, Soren Alberto Gauger, Patrick Murphy, Ruth Sabath Rosenthal, Robert Parham, and Tim Horvath. click to enlarge pacific REVIEW 2005-2006, the OMNIVORE special issue edited by Leon Lanzbom and only a tad late is NOW available by following this link--do note that this link takes you outside the sdsu.edu domain, but know as well that your trip will be secure, safe, and without a hint of trouble! The cover features the work of Rebecca Tillett, a rising star in the world of indy photography!  More on Tillett's work is available by taking that mouse of yours and clicking here! Click here for the issue's table of contents! Click here for some notes on our local and international contributors. pacific REVIEW A West Coast Arts Review Annual  Four Decades of Literary Experimentation at SDSU pacific REVIEW has published high-quality fiction, poetry, essays, and artwork since 1972. Past issues boast the literary talent of Carolyn Forché, Claribel Alegria, Raymond Federman, Ernesto Cardenal, Robert Coover, Susan Daitch, Steve Kowit, Daniel Halpern, and Jorge Luis Borges, to name a few.Akin to other university-based, literary initiatives (Long River Review, at the University of Connecticut, Storrs; Ploughshares, at Emerson College; and The Sycamore Review, at Purdue University), pacific REVIEW showcases the work of emergent literati, pairing their efforts with the work of established artists. A back issue, pacific REVIEW 2003, will soon be back in print. It features works that explore identity in the context of West Coast/California culture. Guest contributors include Ai, Alurista, , Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Oliver Mayer,  and William T. Vollmann.  pacific REVIEW books and sundries pacific REVIEW novelty items 2004-2005 issue available ONLINE though our secure CAFEPRESS servers! Click the cover above to be instantly transported to our CAFEpress outlet with secure, state of the art transaction protocols. 2007 Events Archive expired: 2007 Brushfire Award a chapbook competition $1000 prize & publication of the winning chapbook in pacific REVIEW's  Spring 2007 issue Judged by Ilya Kaminsky $15 reading fee SASE; cover page with name, contact information and title of chapbook; up to 15 pages; previously published poems within the chapbook are acceptable as long as the author has retained her or his publication rights! DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 15, 2007 c/o Dept. English & Comparative Literature San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Dr.  San Diego, CA 92182-6020  INFO.PACREV@GMAIL.COM 2005 Events Archive Reading at D.G. Wills! Collette LaBouf Atkinson, Brandi Bell, Estela Eaton, Guillermo Nericcio Garcia, Cassandra Gonzalez, Sandra Hunter, Maggie Jaffe and Leon Lanzbom will be performing at D.G. Wills Books on December 10th, 7pm, to commemorate the Decay and Decadence issue of pacificREVIEW. pacificREVIEW has published high-quality fiction, poetry, essays, and artwork since 1972. The journal showcases the work of emergent literati, pairing their efforts with the work of established artists. After the nineteenth century Decay and Decadence movement, this issue further explores the role of decadence in art as a progressive reflection of decay in society. Like funhouse mirrors inverting the relationship between inflator and inflated, the works presented in this issue foreground the cataclysmic and much anticipated demise of the artist against the summits of aestheticism, hence fashioning her after the herculean strength and vulnerability of her subject. D.G. Wills Books, La Jolla's most decadent collection of new and scholarly books and home of the La Jolla Cultural Society, is located at 7461 Girard Avenue, La Jolla Ca. 92037 (858) 456-1800. 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