580 Split is a journal of arts and letters founded in 1998 by graduate students of the Literatures and Languages Department at Mills College. We publish fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art with an eye for writing that is innovative, risk-taking, and timely.

Our name comes from the crisscrossing and splitting highway ramps, overpasses, and interchanges near Mills College. It represents the rich cultural and literary interchange that Oakland incubates like no other city in America.

In 2018 we moved from print to online publication and celebrated our first 20 years with a special anthology issue. You can read a few print issues from our back catalogue here. We continue to seek work from both emerging and established writers that challenges, astounds, and inspires us.