ALT Dear Contributors and Readers, We are pleased to announce that the DASH Literary Journal, Issue 17, Spring 2026, has been mailed! Please watch for it in your mailboxes soon! If you do not receive your copy by mid-October, please email us: Dr. Brandi Wells, Advisor - [email protected] OR The DASH Team - [email protected]. Thank you for your patience!

ALT Local Author Fair 2026, Saturday, August 22, 2026, 12:00 pm - 4:30 pm PT, Fullerton Public Library, Conference Center, 353 W Commonwealth Ave. , Fullerton, CA 92832, Visit: fullertonlibrary.org

ALT DASH has officially arrived!

ALT DASH Literary Magazine, Issue 17 - Spring 2026 - Copies will be mailed out to contributors soon!

ALT Freedom Day - Juneteenth: Freedom, Resilience, Legacy. Today we honor Juneteenth — a powerful reminder that freedom delayed is not freedom denied. Let’s celebrate, reflect, and continue the march toward justice. Quote: "Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation." - Coretta Scott King

ALT Happy Pride Month! Quote: “Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” By James Baldwin, American novelist, essayist, and civil rights activist

ALT Congratulations to the Graduating Members of the 2026 DASH Team! Bachelor’s Degree: Emily Arrey Master's Degree: Lacey Currey, London Evans, Harrison Lee, Ketzalt Marquez, Michael Martin-Swing, Layal Messelmani, Samantha Rentfro, Amreeen Rentia, Gabriela Villanueva, Jaime Vo

ALT A big thank you to everyone who submitted to the 2026 DASH Literary Journal! We are incredibly grateful for your creativity, your trust, and the opportunity to experience your work. Thank you for being part of the DASH community!

ALT Responses were sent to all contributors the end of March 2026. The journal is currently at the printers and will be published in late spring. Contributing authors will receive a printed copy of DASH in the mail. A digital version should be available through the CSUF English Department website in the near future. https://english.fullerton.edu/students/dash.html

ALT Introducing our 2026 DASH Team! Part Six

ALT Introducing Michael Martin-Swing

ALT Introducing Cameron Reese

ALT Introducing Jamie Vo

ALT Introducing our 2026 DASH Team! Part Five

ALT Introducing Lacey Currey

ALT Introducing Yahir Gonzalez

ALT Introducing Alexander Kontokanis

ALT Introducing our 2026 DASH team! Part Four

ALT Introducing Layal Messelmani

ALT Introducing Amreen Rentia

ALT Introducing Gabriela Villanueva

ALT Introducing our 2026 DASH team! Part Three

ALT Introducing London Evans

ALT Introducing Harrison Lee

ALT Introducing Ketzalt Marquez

ALT Introducing our 2026 DASH Team - Part Two

ALT Introducing Samantha Rentfro

ALT Introducing Megan Strand

ALT Introducing Joey Torres

ALT Introducing our 2026 DASH Team - Part One

ALT Introducing Emily Arrey

ALT Introducing Cienna Green

ALT Introducing Julie Haefner

ALT Question: How did you come to be the DASH advisor? Answer: Over the past 15 years I've worked on literary journals and small presses in different capacities. Once I came to CSUF, it made sense to continue this work by advising DASH. It's been thrilling to see how inventive, hardworking, and smart all the students have been as they put this issue together. Question: Will you continue to be the DASH advisor next year? Answer: I will!

ALT Question: What are your hopes for the journal? Answer: I hope that the journal continues to give students hands-on experience. I hope that DASH's overall shape, structure, tone, and content evolves with the students and writers who help create it. Question: What do you want your students to get out of the class? Answer: I hope students carry with them the skills that they develop and hone while creating the journal. I hope they continue to create and develop spaces that showcase the art that matters most to them.

ALT Introducing Dr. Brandi Wells, 2026 DASH Advisor

ALT Biography: Dr. Wells’ writing, research, and teaching focus on speculative literature, from realism to fantasy. Their novel The Cleaner uses metafiction to imagine the lives of unseen workers. They study dystopia and apocalypse in feminist and queer speculative writing.

ALT Biography: In the classroom, students create fantasy worlds and persona poem narrators through imaginative play. As a first-generation college graduate, Dr. Wells values conversations about whose stories are told, whose voices are heard, and how students can see themselves as experts.

ALT Education: 2023, Ph.D., Literature and Creative Writing, University of Southern California, 2014, M.FA., Creative Writing, University of Alabama, 2008, B.A., English, B.A., Creative Writing, Georgia Southern University. Research: Speculative Literature, Dystopian Literature, Workplace Fiction, Worldbuilding, Feminist and Queer Literature