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