The Santa Barbara Literary Journal, a small press founded 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.
Volume 15 Submissions are Open Through October 31, 2026 for Short Stories and Flash Fiction
Check out our Submissions page for more details.
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Volume 14
Noleta Liminal
featuring the art of Robin Gowen
fiction by
Ares Bartell
Valerie Girard
Luke Hawthorne
Cole Hersey
Stephen Ingram
Amy Jonker Broersma
Jeffrey-Michael Kane
Maryanne Knight
Lance Mason
Shira Musicant
Carter O'Neill
Shannon Ragan
Ethan Rose
Sydney Salter
Dale Scherfling
poetry by
Ace Boggess
Lily Cohen-Iwanowski
Jacob Herrera Spears
Stephen Hindmarch
Uchechi Iheanacho
Charlene Langfur
Benjamin Nash
J. Alan Nelson
Suzanne Nielsen
Jon Obermeyer
Ramzi Rihani
David Starkey
Caitlin Swalec
Mark Tulin
Paul Willis
Matt Zambito
Thanks to our sponsor Lazarus Media
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