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Birdland Journal An on-line publication celebrating the diverse voices of Northern California writers. We want writing that surprises us with its unique perspective.

We are looking for quality unpublished fiction, flash fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction from established and emerging Northern California writers. We welcome all kinds of writing, including voices that explore place through prisms of race, gender, and ethnic/social identity. Through the art of language, show us what makes Northern California breathe. Send us work that reflects our environm

ent, cultural tolerance, and creative spirit. We are especially interested in writing that incorporates Northern California settings or topics. Our editors look for compelling voices and work that demonstrates attention to craft.

The deadline to submit for our special edition is fast approaching! All you NorCal writers have until July 14th to send ...
11/07/2020

The deadline to submit for our special edition is fast approaching! All you NorCal writers have until July 14th to send your work our way.
https://www.birdlandjournal.com/submissions/

SubmissionsA SPECIAL EDITION: Writing in the Time of the Global Pandemic-This MomentWe are living in unprecedented times and we think it calls for a special edition of the Birdland Journal. How have you been impacted? How have you been coping? From what do you take comfort, find inspiration and hu...

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WRITERS SUBMIT NOW FOR OUR SPECIAL EDITION "Writing in the Time of the Global Pandemic"https://www.b...
11/06/2020

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WRITERS SUBMIT NOW FOR OUR SPECIAL EDITION "Writing in the Time of the Global Pandemic"
https://www.birdlandjournal.com/submissions/

SubmissionsA SPECIAL EDITION: Writing in the Time of the Global Pandemic-This MomentWe are living in unprecedented times and we think it calls for a special edition of the Birdland Journal. How have you been impacted? How have you been coping? From what do you take comfort, find inspiration and humo...

We are very excited! Please do read and share with others. We are excited about our contributors.
04/03/2020

We are very excited! Please do read and share with others. We are excited about our contributors.

Spring 2020 IssueSpring arrives early in Northern California. After the dark winter of spindly trees and cold nights, it’s only February and we are graced with greener hills, sunshine, sprouting crocuses, daffodils, deep blue grape hyacinth. You can’t miss the yellow mustard lining the vineyard...

We are pleased to share our Spring 2020 issue with you! Enjoy an array of wonderful prose and poems as varied as our ear...
04/03/2020

We are pleased to share our Spring 2020 issue with you! Enjoy an array of wonderful prose and poems as varied as our early spring offerings, like the unexpected timeliness of Art Carey’s “And Forgive Us Our Trespasses,” and Stephanie Noble's still timely “Oh November, 2016.” Savor the lovely language in Sharon Pretti’s poem “Waking,” and Jan Haag's “This Longest Night.” Find hope in nature’s resilience in Nancy Huxtable Mohr’s poem “Flight.”
https://www.birdlandjournal.com/journal-issues/spring-2020-issue/

Spring 2020 IssueSpring arrives early in Northern California. After the dark winter of spindly trees and cold nights, it’s only February and we are graced with greener hills, sunshine, sprouting crocuses, daffodils, deep blue grape hyacinth. You can’t miss the yellow mustard lining the vineyard...

Birdland Journal is open for submissions from Northern California writers! Send us your short prose and poems. And pleas...
01/10/2019

Birdland Journal is open for submissions from Northern California writers! Send us your short prose and poems. And please spread the word Christopher P. DeLorenzo and The Writing Salon and Left Coast Writers!
https://www.birdlandjournal.com/submissions

SubmissionsDear Birdland Journalers,We are busy reading for our next issue! Send us your work by January 31st, 2020. The theme is HOPE. It seems fitting in these uncertain and changing times. Hope that our politics will work for the advantage of everyone, hope for the planet as global warming become...

Birdland Journal contributor Christie Cochrell has some new publishing accomplishments to celebrate! Read her new works ...
09/09/2019

Birdland Journal contributor Christie Cochrell has some new publishing accomplishments to celebrate! Read her new works in Silver Stork Magazine and Lowestoft Chronicle
Way to go Christie!

Earlier that day she’d gone out looking for the yellow fish, and seen the young Hawaiians diving from the lava cliffs: one fat, one tall, one paler, sly; all differences erased...

Birdland Journal opens for new submissions on September 1st. We you’ll visit the submissions page for all the details!...
27/08/2019

Birdland Journal opens for new submissions on September 1st. We you’ll visit the submissions page for all the details! https://www.birdlandjournal.com/submissions/

SubmissionsDear Birdland Journalers,We will be open for submissions on September 1st. The theme for our next issue, due out in early 2020, is HOPE. It seems fitting in these uncertain and changing times. Hope that our politics will work for the advantage of everyone, hope for the planet as global wa...

07/05/2019
Spring 2019 Issue |

Thank you to all the terrific contributors to our spring issue "Character Matters!"
https://www.birdlandjournal.com/journal-issues/spring-2019-issue/

Spring 2019 IssueHere in Northern California, with all the rain we’ve had, the landscape is bright with birdcalls, butterflies and flowers. It seems everything is alive, much like the poetry and prose we’ve chosen here. The theme for this issue is A Matter of Character. Even buildings have stori...

02/04/2019
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Love to have more submissions. Laguna writers been looking for you!

Two weeks until our open reading period ends for our "Character Matters" issue!

01/04/2019

Two weeks until our open reading period ends for our "Character Matters" issue!

03/01/2019
BIRDLAND JOURNAL – Celebrating Northern California Voices

Happy New Year! Birdland Journal is open for submissions from Northern California writers now through April 15th. We are eager to read your poetry and prose!
https://www.birdlandjournal.com

Welcome!Birdland Journal offers a home for fiction, flash fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction from established and emerging Northern California writers. We welcome all kinds of writing, including voices that explore place through prisms of race, gender, and ethnic/social identity. Through the....

11/12/2018
BIRDLAND JOURNAL – Celebrating Northern California Voices

Announcing the theme for Birdland Journal's spring 2019 issue:
"A Matter of Character"
visit for more info https://www.birdlandjournal.com/

Welcome!Birdland Journal offers a home for fiction, flash fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction from established and emerging Northern California writers. We welcome all kinds of writing, including voices that explore place through prisms of race, gender, and ethnic/social identity. Through the....

17/11/2018
BIRDLAND JOURNAL – Celebrating Northern California Voices

Birdland Journal will open for submissions to our spring 2019 issue on January 1st. Check back for an announcement on the theme!

Warm Thanksgiving wishes to everyone.

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Welcome!Birdland Journal offers a home for fiction, flash fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction from established and emerging Northern California writers. We welcome all kinds of writing, including voices that explore place through prisms of race, gender, and ethnic/social identity. Through the....

24/09/2018
Fall 2018 Issue |

Birdland Journal has just released the latest issue! The theme is "Change." Please take a few moments to enjoy some fabulous work by Northern California writers!
https://www.birdlandjournal.com/journal-issues/fall-2018/

Fall 2018 IssueAs we roll from summer to fall, we proudly present eighteen writers from different areas of Northern California, from Sonoma to Santa Cruz, exploring the theme “Change,” from personal poems like Kaye Cleave’s “The Unbearable Music of Grief” to the global in “When Mother Di...

17/07/2018
Ellen Bass

Thank you Ellen Bass for letting your readers know that Birdland Journal is now reading submissions for our Fall 2018 issue.

My July newsletter is out and full of workshops, events, and an impressive aray of news from my former and current students. -

07/07/2018
Birdland Journal

My dear Facebook writer peeps, Please submit some of your wonderful writing to the Birdland Journal. Our submissions are open for the fall issue. I want to include you.

Summer is the perfect time to submit your unpublished prose or poetry to Birdland Journal! Visit our website for submission guidelines. Northern California writers only please!
https://www.birdlandjournal.com/submissions/

19/04/2018
BIRDLAND JOURNAL – Celebrating Northern California Voices

The Spring 2018 issue of Birdland Journal is here! Congratulations to our contributors LeeAnn Bartolini, Christie Cochrell, Mark Dowie, Jan Haag, Carol Harada, Tim Lane, Chris McClean, Kathleen McClung, Deborah Meltvedt,
Krista Minard, Julie Nicholson, Stephanie Noble, Joyce Roschinger, Lee Rossi, Miles Sarvis-Wilburn, Sharon H. Smith, Ryan Voelker and Wendy Yim.
https://www.birdlandjournal.com/

02/02/2018

Thank you to all who've submitted your writing for our Spring 2018 issue! We are happily reading away!

27/01/2018
Submissions |

Attention Northern California writers! January 31st is the deadline for Birdland Journal's spring issue. Please read the submission guidelines here: https://www.birdlandjournal.com/submissions/

SubmissionsHello, Writers– We welcome submissions for the online Birdland Journal: Celebrating Northern California Voices. We are looking for quality unpublished fiction, flash fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction from established and emerging Northern California writers. We welcome all kinds...

19/01/2018
BIRDLAND JOURNAL – Celebrating Northern California Voices

We are busy reading for the Spring 2018 issue of Birdland Journal! Send us your Northern California-inspired poetry, short stories (up to 5,000 words) and nonfiction musings. https://www.birdlandjournal.com/

November 15, 2017 by [email protected] commentsBirdland Journal is E x p a n d i n gHello, Writers–We are pleased to announceBirdland Journal: Celebrating Northern California Voices. SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPENPlease go to our Submissions page to see our guidelines.We are looking for quality unp...

03/01/2018
Submissions |

Happy New Year from Birdland Journal! We are now reading for our Spring 2018 edition. Deadline is January 31st and we'd love to hear from Northern California writers of fiction, poetry and nonfiction. To submit please visit https://www.birdlandjournal.com/submissions/

SubmissionsHello, Writers– We welcome submissions for the online Birdland Journal: Celebrating Northern California Voices. We are looking for quality unpublished fiction, flash fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction from established and emerging Northern California writers. We welcome all kinds...

04/12/2017
The Writing Salon

Wow. The Writing Salon just shared this map of the SF Bay Area as Literary City!

Check out this incredible interactive literary map of the Bay Area produced by the SF Chronicle! "Literary City" details all of the San Francisco Bay Area's sites of literary significance including celebrated independent bookstores and historical landmarks, as well as neighborhoods and streets described in your favorite poem or novel.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/theliterarycity/

01/12/2017

Thank you Joel and Toni Eis of Rebound Bookstore for providing a warm and welcoming place for our local literary community to gather and enjoy poetry and treats. Listening to Lee Rossi read from his book "Wheelchair Samurai" was a treat too.

25/11/2017
Alley Cat Books

It's Small Business Saturday--don't forget to support your local bookstore! We are so fortunate to have great ones here in Northern California--like Alley Cat Books http://www.alleycatbookshop.com/ and Book Passage Bookstore & Cafe and Copperfield's Books and Rebound Bookstore and Point Reyes Books to name a few!

Alley Cat Books in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District, sells used and remaindered books.

18/11/2017
BIRDLAND JOURNAL – Celebrating Northern California Voices

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Hello Facebook friends,
Our expanded Birdland Journal is open for submissions. If you are a writer in Northern California, please send us something!

November 15, 2017 by [email protected] commentsBirdland Journal is E x p a n d i n gHello, Writers–We are pleased to announceBirdland Journal: Celebrating Northern California Voices. SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPENPlease go to our Submissions page to see our guidelines.We are looking for quality unpub...

18/11/2017

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