Zaum is a student-run print and web literary magazine out of the English Department at Sonoma State University, publishing dynamic and innovative works by emerging student writers from across the country and beyond. To submit, you must...
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Reading Period: Sep 1 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
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Zone 3 publishes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction in a wide variety of aesthetics from both emerging and established writers.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
ZYZZYVA is an award-winning independent San Francisco literary journal publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and vart by the best writers, poets, translators, and artists from the Bay Area, California, the West Coast—and beyond. 2025...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to May 31, Sep 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Literary Fiction
