Cheers from the Wasteland is a place-based journal featuring creative work by people with ties (loose, iron strong, and everything in-between!) to San Jose, California.  Through words, images, and sounds, this journal aims to add contours to the wasteland, and surface the undeniable beauty—both underlying and blatant—that sets our city apart. ​ 

We are currently on hiatus but may re-open submissions in the future. 

If you are looking for a place to submit San Jose-related work, check out www.archive408.com.

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LESLIE PATRON, Editor

Leslie Patron lives and writes in her hometown of San Jose, California. Her most recent work appears or is forthcoming in Dream Pop Journal, Entropy, Queen Mob's Tea House, littletell, Daily Gramma, and The Operating System. She is currently at work on a collection of lyric essays about San Jose's history. She is the social media editor of 1913 Press and an active member of the South Bay DIY Zine Collective.