“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

Embrace the unknown this Halloween season… 3 issues from our backlist, chosen at random, $25…

We join our Bay Area community in mourning Susan Griffin. If you’re wanting to sit with Susan for some minutes (again or for the first time), we were lucky to have Heidi Benson interview her in our Issue 108. Read: tinyurl.com/bdm2frwj

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!

Come out to 7 Social SF on Thursday, we’d love to see you!

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

See you tomorrow?

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

Here’s the start of a longer poem of mine in the new issue of @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social, a journal I love — very grateful to poetry editor @andrewdavidking.bsky.social and editor @ovillalon.bsky.social 🙏🏻 www.zyzzyva.org/2025/09/10/i...

A big thank you to everyone who came out for the book fair and our 5th annual (‼️) Litquake Out Loud! 🎉 The celebration continues—join us for Out Loud’s 5th anniversary at the Makeout Room on 10/19. Tickets + info pinned on our profile! @yerbabuenagardens.bsky.social

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

🥳 TONIGHT 9/22 at 7pm PT, @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social is holding their Issue 130 Celebration at City Lights! Emceed by @ovillalon.bsky.social with a reading by @keenanthewriter.bsky.social Attend in person for pizza and wine, or register for the livestream here: citylights.com/events/

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

Our new Issue No. 130 is almost here… and you can pre-order your copy!

Happy publication day to Thea Matthews for GRIME: City Lights Spotlight Series No. 25! From addiction and familial dysfunction to gentrification and police brutality, GRIME examines harsh realities through an activist lens with a rare deftness of poetic form. bit.ly/3IeylKU

Congratulations to Two Lines authors & translators Jazmina Barrera, Christina MacSweeney, Mohamed Kheir, and Robin Moger 🎉 Sleep Phase and The Queen of Swords are both longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature. 📚 www.catranslation.org/books/#displ...

Today until 9/21, all NEW Two Lines Press members will receive the new CAT @catranslation.org tote bag! A membership gets you early access (w/ free U.S. shipping included) for all our books (8-10/year), plus exclusive member gifts. Join us! www.catranslation.org/books-member...

“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

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ZYZZYVA Movie Night coming Saturday! Get your ticket: tinyurl.com/ys5jvcp2

Next week! ZYZZYVA Movie Night at Roxie Theater with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social + @alexanderchee.bsky.social + @litquake.org Tickets: tinyurl.com/ys5jvcp2

Coming up soon! ZYZZYVA Movie Night at Roxie Theater with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social + @alexanderchee.bsky.social + @litquake.org (and you can grab a copy of ZYZZYVA with your ticket!)

“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

“They come, they go—presence their only language.” New poetry from Kelly Cressio-Moeller in our latest issue! Keep reading + subscribe at zyzzyva.org

ZYZZYVA Move Night at Roxie Theater is back in September!

“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

This week our Editor @ovillalon.bsky.social was on Bibliocracy Radio with Andrew Tonkovich. Give it a listen!

In May we celebrated our 40th anniversary on @kqedforum.bsky.social with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Listen to the podcast to hear from our editor @ovillalon.bsky.social + writers @ingridrojasc.bsky.social and Daniel Handler on all things ZYZZYVA and West Coast lit!

It’s the last day of our July 4th Sale! 3-issue subscription discount with code SAVE5 at: www.zyzzyva.org/product/zyzz...

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...

Tonight. Online and in-person, register here: communityofwriters.org/2025...

We did some nipping and tucking to our budget so we can offer this special price for our summer workshop. We don’t want you to miss out! www.southeastreview.org/product-page...

Thank you to Evelyn Ch'ien at @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social for these insightful questions.

“We are not going anywhere.” California’s independent publishers talk about funding cuts, the future and what you can do. @transitbooks.bsky.social @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social @catranslation.bsky.social @redhenpress.bsky.social @clmporg.bsky.social www.ocregister.com/2025/06/13/t...

“It had this snowball-coming-down-the-mountain effect." CAT President Michael Holtmann on our NEA grant termination news. Thank you @erikpedersen.bsky.social for including us and our Bay Area neighbors @transitbooks.bsky.social & @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social. www.ocregister.com/2025/06/13/t...

New Zyzzyva, new story by me! @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social

Excited to dive in! @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social going strong at 40. Kudos @ovillalon.bsky.social & contributors @arlozoroff.bsky.social @cubistoctopus.bsky.social @poetkellycm.bsky.social @mpalaia.bsky.social @fetaplace.bsky.social @dapowell.bsky.social @kimsamek.bsky.social @gregoryspatz.bsky.social

Found the latest @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social with my story included. First time buying my work at a bookstore.

“ 'It is difficult,' William Carlos Williams wrote in 1955, 'to get the news from poems / Yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there.' ” Our contributing editor David L. Ulin on the NEA's termination of grants. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

We’ll update the list as we learn of more publishers and/or add more books to our shelves. ebbooksellers.com/lists/L53KwK...

Thanks to everyone who came to Jack Kerouac Alley to celebrate Zyzzyva magazine's 40th Anniversary and to buy copies of the latest issue.(Congratulations, @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social!) Doing another @citylightsbooks.bsky.social alley event in August with Randall Mann: citylights.com/events/poetr...

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🎧 Listen to the podcast! Editor @ovillalon.bsky.sociavl, author Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) & author ‪@ingridrojasc.bsky.social with ‪@alexis-madrigal.bsky.social‬ about 40 years of Zyzzyva, the scrappy SF literary journal, and the West Coast literary scene. 🔗:

WED at 9AM: ‪@zyzzyvamag.bsky.social‬ editor @ovillalon.bsky.social‬, author Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) & author ‪@ingridrojasc.bsky.social‬ celebrate 40 years of Zyzzyva, the scrappy SF literary journal, and the West Coast literary scene. ❓ Is there a Zyzzyva piece that has stuck with you?

San Francisco: I am reading on Wednesday with @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social

EVENTS 🌎 5/20, 6pm UNTOURBOOK Across Occupied Turtle Island 🥳 5/21, 6pm, @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social 40th Anniversary w/ @fetaplace.bsky.social, @mpalaia.bsky.social @dapowell.bsky.social, @kimsamek.bsky.social, & @ovillalon.bsky.social 📽️ 5/24, 12pm, Barry Gifford @ The Roxie citylights.com/events/

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...

Meet me in Jack Kerouac Alley, between Vesuvio and @citylightsbooks.bsky.social , to celebrate the latest issue of @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social, featuring work by me, @joycecaroloates.bsky.social, @gregoryspatz.bsky.social, @poetkellycm.bsky.social. citylights.com/events/zyzzy...

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.