SWAGAZINE originated within the online community in Santa Barbara at a now defunct BBS we knew as Swagland. The personalities who graced our electronic medium shared messages of such considerable talent that we decided to pool our efforts, take on the world, and start a magazine of our own. Now, several years later, the BBS world has migrated to the Internet and so has our publication.

Swagazine focuses on prose and poetry both as art forms and entertainment media. Social, philosophical and liberal political themes are dealt with, but not in a way that mimics news magazines or purely didactic writing. It is not our goal to educate our readers; we presume they are already educated.

Here we examine the dynamic relationship between the mind and the voice; between the conscience of people and the standards of mass society; between the message of the endangered individual and the moronic giant of popular opinion.

While it is our intent to spotlight our local talent, we are open to submissions from anyone, anywhere. If you would like to submit your prose, poetry, dramatic dialogue, or artwork to us, create freely and honestly. Trendiness is not valued; we probably wouldn't even recognize a fashionable approach if we saw it. Take all the risks you want; no subject matters are forbidden prima facie.

Our electronic magazines are vehicles for aesthetic experiments and entertainment; we are not making money, and so we cannot offer any to our submitters. What we do offer is participation in an artistic endeavor that will bring writers and artists together and into opposition; the artist becomes the art and the art is let out of the closet, the disk drive, and the soul.