Local Poets and Writers:
sunshine/noir III
San Diego City Works Press is currently accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, photography, and art for our 20-year anniversary anthology of San Diego writing, Sunshine/Noir III: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana, due out in 2025.
If you have a poem, story, creative and/or documentary non-fiction, or a piece of art or
photography that captures the realities of San Diego county that lurk beneath the
booster and tourist stereotypes of “America’s Finest City,” please submit. We are open
to work from both professional and beginning writers as long as it is excellent and has a
story to tell.
We want work that maps the endangered natural landscape, sniffs out grit, ecstasy, and
irony in the midst of the theme-park city. We seek writing that reveals buried histories,
deals with the border, work, race, class, gender, sexuality, urban and natural
environments, decadence, tragedy, sex, death, beauty, ugly beauty, and, yes, alienation
under the sun. Everything from traditional realism to formal innovation is welcome in
fiction and our tastes in poetry and non-fiction are equally eclectic.
Submit your best poems, fictions or non-fictions of ten pages or less via email in a Word document or .pdf to: cityworkspress@earthlink.net
DEADLINE: June 7th, 2024
San Diego City Works
Press is unable to accept outside manuscript submissions or book proposals.
If you have any questions or have been referred by one of the members of the SD Writeres Collective, please contact:
cityworkspress@earthlink.net
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