Founded in Los Angeles in Fall 2014, Angel City Review is a literary journal that is committed to bringing the cutting edge in fiction and poetry to a modern audience.
Issue three will be released on July 8th 2016. We will also be having a release reading on this date. Information will be announced shortly.
Hello everyone out there on the interwebs. Issue 2 of Angel City Review is now available for your consumption. As always it is free, but if you enjoy the issue and so choose you can donate funds via paypal through submissions@angelcityreview.com
Our release party is happening today December 29th at Ave 50 Studios in Highland Park at 7pm. 131 N Avenue 50, Los Angeles, California 90042
Featured Readers:
Chiwan Choi
Teka-Lark Fleming
Art Currim
Estella Ramirez
Trista Hurley-Waxali
Billy Burgos
The Alex Santos Quintet will also be playing a set of Jazz afterwards for your enjoyment.
In addition to issue two, we are excited to announce that we will be posting book reviews on our website starting in about a week. We will post contemporary book reviews and some not some recent books that you may have missed. If you have a book you would like us to review you can send us the info at our submissions email. If you would like to contribute book reviews you can also email us there as well.
Featuring work by:
Art by Gagandeep Singh
Hello everyone. I hope you have been enjoying issue one thus far. We are tirelessly at work on issue two and would like to remind you that there are less than 10 days to submit. This issue is looking to be a very exciting one. We will also be sending out responses to all those who have already submitted shortly.
Thank you to everyone who has downloaded and been enjoying the first issue thus far. We are in the process of working on issue two and we are very excited for what we will be sharing with you all in the next few months. While this project is a labor of love and we will never charge anything for the issues, we will gladly accept donations of any amount if you appreciate the work. Donations can be sent to our paypal account through the email submissions@angelcityreview.com Thanks again for all the support you all have shown thus far.
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Art by Dave Tada
All The Crap You Keep Inside Grows Sunflowers
By Keith Niles
All the crap you keep inside grows sunflowers and
bell peppers and opium poppies that brood in the
richest darkest loam for weeks and months in the
suppression of the sadness of your unfulfilled visions
before something gives way to the sun and the
heart blooms black and bursts forth with awful
truths. I’m afraid I may have a nervous breakdown
before long, the seeds are too strong and these
flowers are those no one wants to see, they bring
death to things and sadness to the land. I’m sad, I’m
sad, and I just really can’t say right now, you know,
the garden needs all the quiet it can get, the
garden has a need, it needs to grow.
There are many great literary events going on in and around LA if you know where to look. Our good friend D.M. Collins is hosting his literary salon “A Rrose in a Prose” at Stories bookstore in Echo Park on February 8th at 2pm. See the flyer below for more information and we hope to see you there.
Welcome to Angel City Review. We have a lot of exciting things in the works. First and foremost this website is finally live and public. We will be having a reading to celebrate the release of the inaugural issue mid February (details will be announced shortly). We would like to take the time to thank everyone who has contributed to the making of this project – from the contributors whose donations have allowed us to not break our pocket books, the writers who will be featured on our digital pages, and the amazing staff who have worked tirelessly to put together something new and exciting.