While Air/Light is based in Los Angeles and approaches the literary arts from a Southern California perspective, we want to read and publish work
We are looking for new and innovative works of literary arts across all mediums and genres. Please send your work to us by using this form. Submissions sent by email (unless specifically requested by the editors) will not be read.
For submission inquiries, or to withdraw or update a submission, please use this form.
We are particularly interested in work from female-identifying, BIPOC, and LGBTQ creators.
While Air/Light is based in Los Angeles and approaches the literary arts from a Southern California perspective, we want to read and publish work by everyone from everywhere.
And we pay! Baseline rates are as follows:
- Poetry: $50
- Responses and department pieces: $100
- Fiction and essays/nonfiction: $200
- Visual art, music, and multimedia: $200
What we read
Nonfiction: Personal essays, critical essays, memoir, reviews, reportage, travel, interviews. Anything up to 4000 words.
Fiction: All genres and styles, up to 4000 words.
Poetry: No more than 10 pages per submission. We are interested in poems of all shapes and sizes, traditional or those that play with genre and form.
Cross-genre: Original work that blurs the lines of genre and form, whether text only or incorporating images and other multimedia elements.
Collaborations: Collaborative essays by two or more writers, or by a writer and an artist, up to 4000 words.
Visual Art: Original work in any style or genre, from comics to fine art and collage.
Music: Original recordings, compositions, and mixes.
Video: Short films, video essays, experimental collage, or anything in this territory.
Digital, multimedia, and interactive: Digital, multimedia, and interactive: Video games, twine narratives, choose-your-own-adventure web stories, interactive experiences, VR/AR/XR art.
Airlight Magazine Submissions Guidelines
We only consider previously unpublished work.
Our taste is wide-ranging, but please familiarize yourself with the journal prior to submitting to get a sense of what we publish.
Simultaneous submissions are fine, but if you decide to publish elsewhere, please notify us immediately using this form that you are withdrawing your work from consideration.
We have a small staff, so please wait one month before inquiring about the status of your submission. We’ll get to it, and we are doing our best to be as prompt as we can. Patience is a virtue.
Responses to submissions will be made via email.
Submission formatting
Prose: Please submit your work in Word .doc or .docx format, double-spaced with one inch margins, in Times New Roman 12. Please put the title and your name at the top of the first page, and please add a short bio (no more than 50 words) at the end of the piece.
Poetry: Please use a new page to begin each poem, and put the title and your name at the top of each page.
Audio, visual, multimedia, or digital: We can work with any of the standard file types for music, image, and video. If your work demands a different file format or mode of presentation, let us know and we can work with you to figure it out.
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