The Alcalá Review is the official literary journal of the University of San Diego. We consider the previously unpublished works of all current USD undergraduate and graduate students.
Please familiarize yourself with our submission guidelines before sharing your work.
All written work should be uploaded on a Word document without any personal identification on the document itself.
Thank you!
We accept short fiction, flash fiction, and selections from longer works if they can stand alone. There is no maximum page limit, although most submissions are generally less than forty pages.
Please upload your work as a Word document and do not include your name anywhere on the document itself.
We accept up to ten pages of poetry, with no more than five poems total. Each poem should start on a separate page, though it may be longer than just one page. We are pleased to welcome works in translation as well, provided the translation is from one's own work.
Please upload all of your work as a single Word document and do not include your name anywhere on the document itself.
We accept personal/literary essays, critical reviews of USD, San Diego, or California events, commentary pieces, profiles, etc. While we do not have a page limit, most submissions are under thirty (30) pages.
Please upload your work as a Word document and do not include your name anywhere on the document itself.
If you feel that your nonfictional prose piece isn't quite like any of these, please consult our "Other Writing" submissions portal.
Please submit between 10 and 20 of your best photographs. They can be centered around a theme of your choosing or an eclectic selection from your superlative work.
Please ensure adequate resolution. No iPhone photos please.
Please submit up to twenty scanned works of visual art as either a JPEG, PNG, or PDF.
If your work doesn’t fall under one of the other categories, we welcome you to submit it here. Submissions in this category have ranged from interviews to journal entries to screenplays to satirical listicles to manifestos. If your piece is not fiction, traditional creative nonfiction, or poetry–yet still has literary merit–this is the place.
Please upload your work as a Word document and do not include your name anywhere on the document itself.
If necessary, please include a short explanatory note on the document itself or after your biographical statement.