Pour Vida was established in the fall of 2013 by writers and friends, Adam and Danny, during their time in grad school, as a platform to foster a writerly community. The intention with Pour Vida zine is to help foster writers' experiences of publishing and the process of submitting and workshopping. This zine is about helping writers polish and be proud of their voices so please, don't think about it too much. Just submit!

The aim of Black Fox is to publish both established and new writers. We welcome all fiction, but we especially like fiction from under-represented genres and styles, including YA. We are also interested in creative nonfiction, poetry, black and white photography and art.

We believe in supporting the creative endeavors of the writers of the world. We believe literature serves an existential function and its value to humanity is beyond measure. Therefore, we will always remain open to the possibility that an individual work may take us beyond the boundaries known today. We seek to publish work that reflects these values, offers new insights into the human condition, finds beauty in the garish, and that when we read it, we want to read it again and again. We want to fold an issue closed and find ourselves richer for knowing the words contained within.

Badlands is aesthetically open, publishing work from a broad spectrum of genres and styles. Although we publish work of all kinds, we have an abiding interest in the following kinds of writing:

• Poetry and prose in Spanish, and in translation from Spanish or any other Language,
• Literature of Place, including, but not limited to, imigrant and indigenous voices,
• Work exploring settings, narratives, lyric utterances, etc., that can be construed as a kind of Badlands--broadly understood,
• Work invested in the wild.