Literature From The Street, For The People.

We're looking for Edge. Words about The Struggle. Words about The Gutters. Everyday people. Everyday things. Working 9-5, 9-7, or 24/7. Raising kids in this. Holding relationships together. The balance. The dizzying. The emotions that spill out and the ones we keep buried. Your childhood tales. Your family woes. And the things that somehow salvage it. It'’s all worth it — because of where we came from.

Best way to work us out? Read the site. Here's a teaser... We're into fiction on funeral runs on Tecate Reds, poems about freedom that cut through the Iranian Revolution, nonfiction that stares death in the face in the emergency room, childhood revenge stories told through tiny skeletons and flies. And the kind of quiet, devastating love that only people who’ve been broke together can write about.

Stay Dangerous. Stay StreetLit.

You can find word counts and more specific guidelines on respective pages. Go enter.

If your work gets accepted, you’ll be featured alongside custom pixel art from our in-house artist.

Multiple and simultaneous submissions are allowed. 

Please submit multiple pieces separately to account for reading fees.