High Desert Journal is a forum for literary, visual and journalistic artists to contribute a deeper understanding of the landscape and people of the interior West. We accept poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, memoirs, letters to the editors, books reiews, essays on social issues and conditions of the region, interviews and visual arts. High Desert Journal is looking for quality work that illuminates the landscape, the people and the relationships between the two. We accept work from residents of the interior West working with any theme, and from anyone living outside of this region creating with an element or theme of the interior West. nonfiction; up to 3,000 words of interview, memoir and essays, and up to five slides or digital images of artwork.