ZYZZYVA
@zyzzyvamag.bsky.social
Award-winning, indie lit journal—made in San Francisco since 1985. Our Issue 130 is now available. Subscribe: zyzzyva.org/subscribe/
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December 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This #givingtuesday help us make ZYZZYVA possible. Your gift, any shape and size, directly supports writers, artists, education, and community.
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Come for the movie! roxie.com/film/zyzzyva...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Come for the movie! roxie.com/film/zyzzyva...
And stay for the party! www.eventbrite.com/e/zyzzyva-li...
And stay for the party! www.eventbrite.com/e/zyzzyva-li...
This year's final ZYZZYVA Movie Night with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social will be Wed., Dec. 3. Our featured guest will be Daniel Handler, and the movie: "Aventurera" (1950), starring Ninón Sevilla. Starts at 6 p.m. And get a ticket to join our party right after the screening! roxie.com/film/zyzzyva...
November 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This year's final ZYZZYVA Movie Night with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social will be Wed., Dec. 3. Our featured guest will be Daniel Handler, and the movie: "Aventurera" (1950), starring Ninón Sevilla. Starts at 6 p.m. And get a ticket to join our party right after the screening! roxie.com/film/zyzzyva...
“But it was one thing to bury the roots of a tree and watch it grow, and another entirely to bury a part of the body.”
New nonfiction from Frances Stroh in our latest issue! Keep reading + subscribe at zyzzyva.org
New nonfiction from Frances Stroh in our latest issue! Keep reading + subscribe at zyzzyva.org
November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
“But it was one thing to bury the roots of a tree and watch it grow, and another entirely to bury a part of the body.”
New nonfiction from Frances Stroh in our latest issue! Keep reading + subscribe at zyzzyva.org
New nonfiction from Frances Stroh in our latest issue! Keep reading + subscribe at zyzzyva.org
Join us tomorrow at 5 p.m. at the Mission's one-and-only Dog Eared Books for exquisite poetry, tasty wine, and a nice hang. Our Fall All-Stars will feature Cate Lycurgus and Jesse Nathan, and will be hosted by @ovillalon.bsky.social. See you there!
October 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Join us tomorrow at 5 p.m. at the Mission's one-and-only Dog Eared Books for exquisite poetry, tasty wine, and a nice hang. Our Fall All-Stars will feature Cate Lycurgus and Jesse Nathan, and will be hosted by @ovillalon.bsky.social. See you there!
We’re celebrating 40 years of publishing and supporting our literary community with our good friends @litquake.org + Mechanics’ Institute + Daniel Handler + @laurenmarkham.bsky.social + @ingridrojasc.bsky.social
Join us for drinks and cake! Free entry
Thursday, 10/23, 7:30pm @ 7 Social SF
Join us for drinks and cake! Free entry
Thursday, 10/23, 7:30pm @ 7 Social SF
October 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
We’re celebrating 40 years of publishing and supporting our literary community with our good friends @litquake.org + Mechanics’ Institute + Daniel Handler + @laurenmarkham.bsky.social + @ingridrojasc.bsky.social
Join us for drinks and cake! Free entry
Thursday, 10/23, 7:30pm @ 7 Social SF
Join us for drinks and cake! Free entry
Thursday, 10/23, 7:30pm @ 7 Social SF
Join us next week for our special @litquake.org installment of Movie Night at Roxie Theater with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social + @newsbysamuels.bsky.social
Tickets: tinyurl.com/mry3xe93
Tickets: tinyurl.com/mry3xe93
October 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Join us next week for our special @litquake.org installment of Movie Night at Roxie Theater with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social + @newsbysamuels.bsky.social
Tickets: tinyurl.com/mry3xe93
Tickets: tinyurl.com/mry3xe93
Our Fall Issue is here! Explore new stories, essays, poems, conversation, and art from a dazzling breadth of interests and styles.
Read Issue 130 (or subscribe) at zyzzyva.org
Read Issue 130 (or subscribe) at zyzzyva.org
September 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Our Fall Issue is here! Explore new stories, essays, poems, conversation, and art from a dazzling breadth of interests and styles.
Read Issue 130 (or subscribe) at zyzzyva.org
Read Issue 130 (or subscribe) at zyzzyva.org
Join us Monday to celebrate our new Issue 130! We’ll be @citylightsbooks.bsky.social with pizza, wine, and a reading from Issue 130 contributor @keenanthewriter.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Join us Monday to celebrate our new Issue 130! We’ll be @citylightsbooks.bsky.social with pizza, wine, and a reading from Issue 130 contributor @keenanthewriter.bsky.social
“Nothing would probably ever have happened without this jewel…”
Thanks to all who came to our Movie Matinee yesterday! And to @alexanderchee.bsky.social + @ingridrojasc.bsky.social for a great conversation on identity, glamour, and Queen of the Night. See you at the next one! @litquake.org
Thanks to all who came to our Movie Matinee yesterday! And to @alexanderchee.bsky.social + @ingridrojasc.bsky.social for a great conversation on identity, glamour, and Queen of the Night. See you at the next one! @litquake.org
September 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
“Nothing would probably ever have happened without this jewel…”
Thanks to all who came to our Movie Matinee yesterday! And to @alexanderchee.bsky.social + @ingridrojasc.bsky.social for a great conversation on identity, glamour, and Queen of the Night. See you at the next one! @litquake.org
Thanks to all who came to our Movie Matinee yesterday! And to @alexanderchee.bsky.social + @ingridrojasc.bsky.social for a great conversation on identity, glamour, and Queen of the Night. See you at the next one! @litquake.org
Next week! ZYZZYVA Movie Night at Roxie Theater with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social + @alexanderchee.bsky.social + @litquake.org
Tickets: tinyurl.com/ys5jvcp2
Tickets: tinyurl.com/ys5jvcp2
August 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Next week! ZYZZYVA Movie Night at Roxie Theater with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social + @alexanderchee.bsky.social + @litquake.org
Tickets: tinyurl.com/ys5jvcp2
Tickets: tinyurl.com/ys5jvcp2
“Or maybe she was still asleep asleep. Maybe everything she saw now was only a reflection of a reflection of reality, like that moonlight in the water.”
New fiction from @gregoryspatz.bsky.social in our latest issue! Keep reading + subscribe at zyzzyva.org
New fiction from @gregoryspatz.bsky.social in our latest issue! Keep reading + subscribe at zyzzyva.org
August 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“Or maybe she was still asleep asleep. Maybe everything she saw now was only a reflection of a reflection of reality, like that moonlight in the water.”
New fiction from @gregoryspatz.bsky.social in our latest issue! Keep reading + subscribe at zyzzyva.org
New fiction from @gregoryspatz.bsky.social in our latest issue! Keep reading + subscribe at zyzzyva.org
“They come, they go—presence their only language.”
New poetry from Kelly Cressio-Moeller in our latest issue! Keep reading + subscribe at zyzzyva.org
New poetry from Kelly Cressio-Moeller in our latest issue! Keep reading + subscribe at zyzzyva.org
August 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
“They come, they go—presence their only language.”
New poetry from Kelly Cressio-Moeller in our latest issue! Keep reading + subscribe at zyzzyva.org
New poetry from Kelly Cressio-Moeller in our latest issue! Keep reading + subscribe at zyzzyva.org
“Can you love, if love is not returned? Not returned equally? The most profound of questions because it is a question about how to love one’s life.”
New fiction from Joyce Carol Oates in our latest issue! Keep reading + subscribe at zyzzyva.org
New fiction from Joyce Carol Oates in our latest issue! Keep reading + subscribe at zyzzyva.org
July 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“Can you love, if love is not returned? Not returned equally? The most profound of questions because it is a question about how to love one’s life.”
New fiction from Joyce Carol Oates in our latest issue! Keep reading + subscribe at zyzzyva.org
New fiction from Joyce Carol Oates in our latest issue! Keep reading + subscribe at zyzzyva.org
Looking for weekend reading? Our July 4th sale starts today! Get or gift a discounted 3-issue subscription. Use code SAVE5 at: www.zyzzyva.org/product/zyzz...
July 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Looking for weekend reading? Our July 4th sale starts today! Get or gift a discounted 3-issue subscription. Use code SAVE5 at: www.zyzzyva.org/product/zyzz...
Look what's arrived at the office! The first issue of our 40th anniversary year!
Order your copy of Issue 129 here: www.zyzzyva.org/product/zyzz...
Order your copy of Issue 129 here: www.zyzzyva.org/product/zyzz...
May 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Look what's arrived at the office! The first issue of our 40th anniversary year!
Order your copy of Issue 129 here: www.zyzzyva.org/product/zyzz...
Order your copy of Issue 129 here: www.zyzzyva.org/product/zyzz...
A big congratulations to Rita Bullwinkel, whose first novel, "Headshot," was a finalist for this year's Pulitzer Prize in fiction! We had the pleasure of publishing an early chapter from her novel, "Andi Taylor vs. Artemis Victor," in Issue 117.
May 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
A big congratulations to Rita Bullwinkel, whose first novel, "Headshot," was a finalist for this year's Pulitzer Prize in fiction! We had the pleasure of publishing an early chapter from her novel, "Andi Taylor vs. Artemis Victor," in Issue 117.
Don't forget to check out our table at #AWP25! We have copies of the most recent ZYZZYVA, as well as our popular Bay Area and Los Angeles issues. We also have our brand new totes and T-shirts for purchase, too. And say hi to our new poetry editor, Andrew David King, when you stop by, won't you?
March 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Don't forget to check out our table at #AWP25! We have copies of the most recent ZYZZYVA, as well as our popular Bay Area and Los Angeles issues. We also have our brand new totes and T-shirts for purchase, too. And say hi to our new poetry editor, Andrew David King, when you stop by, won't you?
Are you at #AWP? So are we! Find us and Santa Monica Review at Table 1137 tomorrow! We’ve got copies of recent issues, and totes and T-shirts and bookmarks. Get a subscription if you like. And have a Pulparindo!
March 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Are you at #AWP? So are we! Find us and Santa Monica Review at Table 1137 tomorrow! We’ve got copies of recent issues, and totes and T-shirts and bookmarks. Get a subscription if you like. And have a Pulparindo!
What an extraordinary opportunity for people interested in writing a creative work rooted in facts! The Storyboard Residency at St. Mary's College of California in June is accepting applications. Well worth checking out and seeing if this is for you.
www.stmarys-ca.edu/storyboard-r...
www.stmarys-ca.edu/storyboard-r...
March 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
What an extraordinary opportunity for people interested in writing a creative work rooted in facts! The Storyboard Residency at St. Mary's College of California in June is accepting applications. Well worth checking out and seeing if this is for you.
www.stmarys-ca.edu/storyboard-r...
www.stmarys-ca.edu/storyboard-r...
Just a reminder: today is the final day to registers for our virtual workshop "Following the Desire" with @rokwon.bsky.social. Don't forget!
www.zyzzyva.org/workshops/
www.zyzzyva.org/workshops/
February 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Just a reminder: today is the final day to registers for our virtual workshop "Following the Desire" with @rokwon.bsky.social. Don't forget!
www.zyzzyva.org/workshops/
www.zyzzyva.org/workshops/
The deadline to register for "Following the Desire" with @rokwon.bsky.social is this Thursday! You can learn more and register at the link below:
www.zyzzyva.org/workshops/
www.zyzzyva.org/workshops/
February 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The deadline to register for "Following the Desire" with @rokwon.bsky.social is this Thursday! You can learn more and register at the link below:
www.zyzzyva.org/workshops/
www.zyzzyva.org/workshops/
We're thrilled to announce our next virtual workshop, featuring @rokwon.bsky.social! On Saturday, March 1, Kwon will be discussing "Following the Desire" in your writing. The deadline to register is Thursday, February 27. Don't delay! www.zyzzyva.org/workshops/
February 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
We're thrilled to announce our next virtual workshop, featuring @rokwon.bsky.social! On Saturday, March 1, Kwon will be discussing "Following the Desire" in your writing. The deadline to register is Thursday, February 27. Don't delay! www.zyzzyva.org/workshops/
This Thursday, Editor Oscar Villalon will be in conversation with @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social about her book "Savage Dreams." Published 30 years ago, Solnit's book remains as startling and relevant as ever, particularly in its understanding of civil disobedience and activism. Join us! bit.ly/42hqkMW
January 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
This Thursday, Editor Oscar Villalon will be in conversation with @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social about her book "Savage Dreams." Published 30 years ago, Solnit's book remains as startling and relevant as ever, particularly in its understanding of civil disobedience and activism. Join us! bit.ly/42hqkMW
It is always an honor to be recognized by the NEA, especially on this year, our 40th anniversary. And a big thank you to all of our readers and contributors and donors who allow us to do the work that we do.
January 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
It is always an honor to be recognized by the NEA, especially on this year, our 40th anniversary. And a big thank you to all of our readers and contributors and donors who allow us to do the work that we do.