What we accept:
 

• Brief fictional prose narrative between 1,000 and 5,000 words in length.
• Any genre, so long as it adheres to the theme of the issue.
• Published and unpublished work, so long as the author has copyrights.

What We Prefer:
 

• Authors local to Tustin and surrounding Orange County areas.
• Authors with strong voices who write underrepresented narratives. 
• Unpublished work. 

What we DO NOT accept:
 

• Poetry.
• Personal nonfiction essays.
• Illustrations or visual art.
• We cannot accept work that is due to be published elsewhere in a collection or as a chapter of a novel and we do not have the ability to pay reprint rights.