by Silver Webb Jenny Mandisi walks in a web of light. Spider-fine threads of sensation travel from her, over the parking lot of Loreto...

by Christine Casey Logsdon Veronica Martin slid into the circular booth near the Caballero Room, waiting. She’d grown up in Santa...

by M. M. De Voe The young woman chose the bench beneath the only maple tree, a tree stunted by lack of light. This tree may remind her...

by Georgine Getty Our tour was set for dusk. Latecomers would be turned away, so we arrived twenty minutes early and sat in the car...

by Jeremy Gold First published in Volume 4 of Santa Barbara Literary Journal I slapped the dust off my pants. Across the diamond on...

by Shelly Lowenkopf A distinguished writing teacher and author, as well as the journal's poetry editor, Shelly will be presenting the...

by Stephen T. Vessels Excerpt from Volume 5: Wild Mercury I met John Reed when I first attended the Santa Barbara Writers Conference in...

by Justine Sutton Sojourner Kincaid Rolle may seem serious when you first meet her. And make no mistake, she is serious—about poetry,...

an interview by Nicholas Deitch I first saw Fred Williams at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference in 2019, shortly after I arrived on the...

by Shelly Lowenkopf Mona Leigh Rose and her husband Mona Leigh Rose Mona’s work appears in Santa Monica Review, Puerto Del Sol, The...

by Nate Streeper Describe your body of work. What kind of stories do you enjoy writing? Two-thirds of my work is young adult. The other...

by Luna Vallejo-Howard Open your hand the smell of a smashed silkworm of a chewed mulberry leaf of a snapped twig the earth’s perfume...

by Chella Courington at random. there’s a crater on my chest: shallow bowl of a hushed meteorite. no fallen star. no washed glow. mass...

by Sojourner Kincaid Rolle In the instance of encounter I am taken for the stranger the unknown interloper Between two worlds I am the...

by Max Talley Portrait of T.C. Boyle by Jamieson Fry It has always been the aim of the Santa Barbara Literary Journal, since its debut in...

by Nate Streeper Doug stared at the coffee table while he adjusted his man bun. He had been staring at it for eons. Or was it minutes?...

An Interview by Silver Webb and Laila Alamiri The cover artist for Volume 4 “Stardust,” Marlyn Daggett is an irrepressible bright light,...

Dear reader, Twas, oh, at least two months ago, the Mistress of Song and I ambled into Laila Alamiri’s Glenn Dallas Art Gallery, and took...

“Wallpaper” won the SB Literary Journal Phantastic Fiction Award at the Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference 2019 and is featured in the...

Dames & Doppelgangers Published by Borda Books, November 2019 Available on Amazon here Or in Santa Barbara, at Chaucer's Bookstore, the...

We're very fortunate to have Chella Courington as our guest editor of poetry for Volume 4, which will be out in late November, and is...

Coffee with Mr. Lowenkopf is a lively affair. Sitting on the patio of his favorite Santa Barbara café, I am hard pressed to name a writer...

I am delighted to have Laila as the guest editor of art for Volume 4. You may have noted that our theme for Volume 4 is "Stardust," and...