Lit Angeles: Submission Call!

If you’re not familiar with Francesca Lia Block and her literary magazine, Lit Angels, it’s time. We are thrilled to guest edit September’s Lit Angeles!

“This is absurd,/ that mortals blame the gods! They say we cause/ their suffering, but they themselves increase it/ by folly” (Homer, I. 32-35).

It’s been the summer of The Odyssey, Ella Langley, lettuce parasites, vacation, Taylor Swift’s wedding, work, and war. Like every good journey, the summer may not have taken you where you wanted to go. We want to know what intervened – fate, chance, your own bad decisions? Where/when did the gods seem to meddle, and where did you bring catastrophe on yourself?

Or maybe you just watched others meet their destinies.

We want your reflections on journeys near and far, fictional or non, and the role fate has taken in your experiences. In your writing, what moments caught your attention? Bored you? Frustrated or delighted? Take us back to the chocolate ice cream running down your kid’s cheek, a bad date you went on, the salt air, fireworks, warehouse fires, wildfires, the World Cup.

What were the gods and monsters you met along the way?

Tell us about your summer by showing us the role fate or free will had in it. Was there a recipe you couldn’t stop making, a drink of the summer, a show you binged, an album that became your soundtrack, an exhibit you went to see, or did you spend most of the summer adventures on the couch? Tell us honestly—or fictionally. Be specific about time, date, place, where you went, what you ate, and who you ate with. Let us feel into the experience and be there with you.

We are looking for travel writing, poetry, art, short stories, and photography to build a collective itinerary of the summer, with all of its complicated twists and turns.

We can’t wait to hear about your summer.

Tarra Stevenson and Courtney Seiberling, guest editors for Lit Angels, September 2026

Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Emily Wilson, W. W. Norton, 2017.