Literary Journals

We offer many exciting opportunities to learn about the publishing scene both through our academic programs and through hands-on experience.  Our students are able to work as interns at literary agencies and local literary organizations in San Diego. They can intern and later join editorial teams at our internationally known literary journals.

Fiction International

Fiction International is the only literary journal in the United States emphasizing formal innovation and social activism. Founded by Joe David Bellamy in 1973 at St. Lawrence University in New York, the journal was relocated to San Diego State University in 1983 and is edited by Harold Jaffe.

Each issue revolves around a theme and features a wide variety of fiction, nonfiction, indeterminate prose, and visuals by leading writers and artists from around the world. We have published works by authors such as William Burroughs, Clarice Lispector (Brazil), Robert Coover, Edmund White, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter Abish, Kathy Acker, Ai, Allen Ginsberg, Alberto Moravia (Italy), Pierre Guyotat, George Perec, and Michel Serres (France), Claribel Alegria (Nicaragua), Tadeus Konwicki (Poland), J.M. Coetzee and Bessie Head (South Africa), Roque Dalton (El Salvador), Luisa Valenzuela (Argentina), Einar Schleef (Germany), Lya Luft (Brazil), Mridula Garg (India), Kanuko Okamuto (Japan), and Michael Morrisey (New Zealand).

Poetry International

Poetry International is one of the oldest and most respected literary journals in the world that’s specifically dedicated to poetry and poetics from around the globe.

Over the years, our annual journal has published work by such authors as Nobel Laureates Derek Walcott, Wislawa Szymborska, Jose Saramago, Eugenio Montale, Gabriela Mistral, Tomas Transtomer, Wole Soyinka, Seamus Heaney, Pablo Neruda, and numerous others.

Our contributors also included Adrienne Rich, Amir Saadi Yousseff, Carolyn Forche, Mahmoud Darwish, Li-Young Lee, Yehuda Amichai, Juan Felipe Herrera, Lyn Hejinian, Katie Ford, Christian Wiman, Malena Morling, Wanda Coleman, Valzhyna Mort, Kwame Dawes, Edward Hirsch, Gerald Stern, Chris Abani, Jean Valentine, Duo Duo, Jane Hirshfield, Bei Dao, Ewa Lipska, Eleanor Wilner, Anna Swir, Anne Waldman, Toi Derricotte, Dunya Mikhail, Robert Bly, Fady Joudah, Gary Soto, Jericho Brown, Nikola Madzirov, and numerous others.

Each issue features sections and portfolios showcasing the poetics from various islands and nations, including Sweden, Russia, Ghana, Mexico, Iraq, Vietnam, Jamaica, Chile, and Cuba.