Know Your Literary Journals: Mochila Review (Undergraduates only magazine)

Mochila Review is an annual international undergraduate journal published out of Missouri Western State University. The editors/readers are undergraduates and they only accept submissions from undergraduates. In there words "Our goal is to publish the best short stories, poems, and essays from the next generation of important authors: student writers"

Know any writers that are currently undergraduates?: Encourage them to polish up some work and submit!

Here is their Duotrope Page.


Mark your calendar: Their regular submissions are from September 1 - May 1. They also have a contest, the Undergraduate MoRe Prize (for short fiction) with a submission window of October 1 – December 1.
What it costs to submit: Regular submissions have no fee. The Undergraduate MoRe Prize costs $5 to submit and has $50 prize. That is a prize of only 10 submission's entry fees, so they probably don't receive many submissions, making your chances better.
What to submit: Five poems or one piece of prose (fiction or essay).
Do they have a podcast?: They do! And there's a lot of episodes to check out here.



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I've emailed them a few questions about their aesthetics, we'll see if they respond.