High Desert Journal is a forum for literary, visual and journalistic artists to contribute a deeper understanding of the landscape and people of the interior West. We accept poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, memoirs, books reviews, essays, interviews and visual arts. High Desert Journal is looking for quality work that illuminates the landscape of the interior West, the people and the relationships between the two. We accept work from residents of the interior West working with any theme, and from anyone living outside of this region creating with an element or theme of the interior West.
We publish biannually (in October and April) and review submissions year round.
Please email us digital files of art work at information@highdesertjournal.com.
Unfortunately, we can not return manuscripts, poems or images of artwork.
Obsidian Prize in Nonfiction - $15.00
The Obsidian Prize for NonfictionThrough a literary prize, High Desert Journal aims to explore the realm described by poet Jarold Ramsey: "I believe in an ecology of story, memory and imagination as much as an ecology of land." As an organization focused on a specific place, we at High Desert Journal have discovered that a deep hunger of readers, writers, and artists exists for place-based arts and literature. We believe every place has an ecology of story, memory, and imagination that inspires us, connects us to one another and to a place. We want to offer the best of this "ecology" through the Obsidian Prize.
2012 Obsidian Prize for Nonfiction
Judged by William Kittredge
$1,000 prize and publication in the High Desert Journal
5,000 word max.
$15 entry fee
Deadline: CHANGED! New Deadline April 12, 2012
Only unpublished work accepted
For writers working in or inspired by the West. Big Sky or big city. Send us your best work.
Submissions are only accepted via SubmishMash
BLIND JUDGING. PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE NAME OR CONTACT INFORMATION ON MANUSCRIPT
Click here to submit.
Fiction
Size limit: 5,000
Please read an issue or two to get an understanding of what we're looking for.Poetry
You may submit up to three poems at once for consideration. Please include them all in the same document.Please note that this page is for general poetry submissions and not for the Obsidian Prize. To submit use the page above.