The Santa Barbara Literary Journal, a small press established in 2018, hosts an eclectic mix of short and flash fiction, poetry, interviews, and art. Beautifully written narratives by imaginative storytellers and visionary poets fill the pages. Tales that push boundaries and reveal our potential and our fears. Stories and poems that keep us wondering long after reading.

Established authors and emerging voices from Santa Barbara and beyond have contributed adventures of wrestlers and renegades, dramas of captains and criminals, and fantasies of vixens and vampires.

 A mix of genres from literary to phantasmic, magical realism and sci-fi to crime, mystery and suspense fill our pages. Within each narrative, imagery, plot and most of all, the structure where something happens and people transform, tempt readers to turn the page and discover new possibilities in themselves, others, and the world around us.

Poems of love and loss, of the beauty and cruelty of nature, of what it is to be human by expanding our awareness and understanding.

Art is the balm that soothes our souls in troubled times. It’s disturbing, enlightening and enthralling. It piques our interest and makes us wonder.

 Pick up a journal and join us in this grand pursuit of the sublime.