The Rush
The Rush is a literary magazine in the Creative Writing MFA graduate program at Mount Saint Mary's University, Los Angeles. It is dedicated to providing a platform to a diverse body of writers and photographers on a transcontinental level, from emerging to established.
The Rush encourages and welcomes aesthetic risks to take our audience to a multitude of places and people. The magazine strives for inclusivity and seeks writers who thrive off artistic expression through poetry, fiction & non-fiction, and photography & narrative.
Poetry Fiction/Non-Fiction Photo/Narrative
Sonnets Micro/Flash Fiction Vignettes & Photo
Blank Verse Social Justice Essays Photo Story
For submission guidelines, Click here.
Literary citizenship is our ultimate goal as we amplify and uplift diverse writers and their words. We aim to support all writers in spirit and practice and maintain a strong community that supports the artist and their work.
“The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence
is an act of rebellion.”
Albert Camus
Editors:
Dr. Juana Moriel-Payne & Tommy Nguyen Assistant Professor Graduate Candidate
Mount Saint Mary’s University-Los Angeles
LALCS-Latin American & Latinx Creative Writing Certificate
The Rush Contact: editorsrush@gmail.com