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ZYZZYVA [1]

Basic Information
State: 
California
Website: 
https://zyzzyva.org [2]
Country: 
United States
Submission Guidelines: 
https://zyzzyva.org/about/submissions [3]
Address: 
57 Post Street
Address (line 2): 
Suite 902
City: 
San Francisco
Zip / Postal Code: 
94104
Details
Formats: 
Online
Print
Payment: 
Cash
Genres Published: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation
Charges Reading Fee: 
No
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
Yes
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
Yes
Reading Periods: 
Jan 1 to May 31
Sep 1 to Nov 30
Response Time: 
3 to 6 months
$42 for 3 issues, student rate $37 for 3 issues

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 will mark ZYZZYVA’s 40th anniversary. 

Representative Authors: 
Rebecca Solnit, Héctor Tobar, Carl Phillips, Lydia Kiesling, Tommy Orange, Ruth Madievsky, Lou Mathews, Lori Ostlund, Kaveh Akbar, Jessica Francis Kane, Peter Orner, Yohanca Delgado, Octavio Solis, Glen David Gold, Victoria Chang, James Cagney, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Matthew Zapruder, Amy Tan, Vanessa Hua, 'Pemi Aguda, Colin Winnette, Tom Bissell, and Rita Bullwinkel.
Issues per Year: 
3
Year Founded: 
1985
Distributors: 
Small Changes
Percentage of Unsolicited Submissions Published: 
1% to 5%
Issue Price: 
$15
Number of Debut Authors per Issue: 
1-2
5,000 to 10,000
Subgenres: 
Literary Fiction [4]

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/literary_magazines/zyzzyva

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/literary_magazines/zyzzyva [2] https://zyzzyva.org [3] https://zyzzyva.org/about/submissions [4] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/literary_fiction