Reed
California’s Oldest Literary Journal
Pushcart Prize Winner
Reedsy: Nominated Best Writing Contest
29/10/2024
🚨‼️A few of our contests close this Friday, November 1st! ‼️🚨
Make sure you head to the link in our bio and submit your work for a chance to be featured in Issue 158 of Reed Magazine.
Only a few days left!!
24/10/2024
We’ve been keeping this secret for a little while now, and we are so excited to finally announce it…
New York Times bestselling author, Tommy Orange, will be joining us for Reed Magazine’s Issue 158 as our John Steinbeck Award guest judge! 🥳🎉
P.S. 🗣️Submissions for the John Steinbeck Award for Fiction are still open now until November 1st. Head to the link in our bio and submit today!
18/10/2024
Reed Magazine wants your artwork!🎨🧑🎨 General and contest submissions for art close December 1st.
Head to the link in our bio and submit today!
18/10/2024
‼️Calling all Santa Clara County high school students‼️
Reed Magazine is still accepting submissions for the Emerging Voices Contest until December 1st! Head to the link in our bio and submit today!
16/10/2024
Psssst… contest submissions for Issue 158 of Reed Magazine are still open!🫢Winners of these contests will receive cash prizes.💸
Head to the link in our bio and submit today!!
10/10/2024
Reed Magazine interviews Tom Franco, Founder of Firehouse Art Collective, in Episode 12 of In The Reeds!
Check out the link in our bio to join Tom as he delves in to the work of Issue 157’s Mary Blair Award contest winner, BENJI.
You don’t want to miss it!
07/10/2024
General submissions for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction close tomorrow! Submit today for a chance to be featured in Issue 158 of Reed Magazine!
Visit the link in our bio to submit your work.
04/10/2024
Reed Magazine’s official podcast, In The Reeds, has a brand new episode coming out October 9th!! Make sure to tune in at the link in our bio.🗣️
02/10/2024
Our submission deadline has been extended one week!!🎉
Reed Magazine is now accepting general submissions for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction until October 8th.
Visit the link in our bio to submit your work.
*General Submissions for Art are open now until December 1st*
20/09/2024
Want a chance to be featured in Issue 158 of Reed Magazine? Submit today!
General submissions for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry close October 1st! Visit our website in our bio for more information on how to submit.
11/09/2024
Not able to make it in person for our Annual Gala Event this year? No worries! We’ve got a livestream for you!
• Click the link in our bio to watch some incredible readings from our 157 Prize Winners and Reed alumni.
• Starting Thursday, September 12th, @ 5pm.
10/09/2024
Our Literary Event and Gala is almost here, and we can’t wait to celebrate the release of Issue 157 with you!
• Featuring readings from our Prize Winners & Reed
Alumni
• Located at the SJSU Student Union Theater
• Free entry and snacks
We hope to see you there!
06/09/2024
Want to get your hands on a copy of Issue 157? Come visit Reed Magazine at the San Jose Poetry Festival this Sunday!
• Located at History Park in front of the Markham House
• Our team will be there from 10:30am - 1:30pm
We can’t wait to see you there!
05/09/2024
Come celebrate the release of Issue 157 with us at our Literary Event and Gala on 9/12 @ 5pm!
• Featuring readings from our Prize Winners & Reed Alumni!
• Located at the SJSU Student Union Theater
• Free entry and snacks!
17/08/2024
07/08/2024
Reed Magazine is looking for your support in the ballots!
Can we count on you?
05/07/2024
It’s fine, we didn’t have summer plans anyway.
Keep the submissions coming!
05/06/2024
Tip #4 is especially important to us.
Reminder: Submissions open in 5 DAYS!
05/06/2024
Tip #4 is especially important to us.
Submissions are open now!
22/05/2024
What an eventful and bittersweet end for Issue 157! We’ve had so much to celebrate this past week, so here’s a recap:
-First off, a HUGE congrats to Robert Issacs whose piece “Growing Up Godless” from Issue 156 won a Pushchat Prize! A THIRD Pushcart for Reed Magazine!
-We said farewell to our amazing Chief Editor, Helen Meservey, whose years of service to Reed Magazine will never be forgotten! The President of SJSU, Dr. Cynthia Teniente-Matson, personally congratulated Helen this past Friday.
-And of course, Friday was not just a party, but a work day! The afternoon was spent packing and shipping away Issue 157 to all of our wonderful & supportive readers. We could not do this without all of you.
Happy reading to you all & thank you 🧡💙
06/05/2024
Reed Magazine congratulates author Khai Don, who is also a SJSU alum and former Reed Magazine non-fiction editor. Khai Don's book of poems Drowning Dragon Slips by Burning Plain was released in 2023 by Texas Tech University Press.
04/05/2024
Web Exclusive Art out now. Click the link in our bio to view!
03/05/2024
Our editors looking at the approaching deadline like…😳
Are you ready for Issue 157? Preorder now until May 10th!
30/04/2024
Reed Magazine, Issue 157 is coming to you all very soon. Are you as excited as we are?
Not to be a tease, but in the meantime, please enjoy Issue 157's latest web exclusives.
Art: Kunik by Hiokit Lao
Fiction: Wild Persimmon by Linda McMullen
25/04/2024
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Reed Magazine
Reed Magazine is honored to feature the works of emerging authors alongside notable pieces by literary lions: nonfiction by Pulitzer Prize-winner William Finnegan, verse by U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass, fiction by PEN/Faulkner-winner T.C. Boyle, and National Book Award-winner Ursula K. Le Guin. In addition, we publish original profiles of authors connected to the Golden State, examining their take on life and art.
Reed is California’s oldest literary journal. Tracing its heritage to 1867, the journal started as a mere pamphlet published by students of the California State Normal School, the precursor of San José State University.
In more than a century and a half of publication, the journal’s name evolved until the end of World War II. Then in 1948, we adopted The Reed, which was later shortened to just Reed, the title we have proudly held ever since.
Our name honors James Reed, a survivor of the infamous Donner Party and a prominent citizen of early California. James Reed made a fortune during the Gold Rush and strongly advocated that San José be named the capital of the new state. While he failed in that ambition, he did keep his promise to donate five hundred acres to the state. The current campus of San José State—the oldest public institution of higher education on the West Coast, and the founding institution of the California State University system—now occupies that land.
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