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...

lovely www.theguardian.com/books/video/...

🎧 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.

We’re going to have to step up to protect and support our literary journals, independent presses, and institutions. This just happened to everyone. I’m thinking through this ❤️

We, too, received an email from the NEA on Friday. Like so many others, our award for 2025 was terminated. So to all of you who donate or subscribe, or have recently bought an issue or a tote or a T-shirt, thank you. In the times ahead, we will no doubt be needing each other more than ever.

Have you bought your tix yet? The first ZYZZYVA Movie Night with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social kicks off Monday, April 14, at the Roxie Theater. Featuring @laurenmarkham.bsky.social in conversation w/ Jenny Odell, right after the screening of "Rivers and Tides" (in 35mm). roxie.com/film/zyzzyva...

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!

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...

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/

I learned so much workshopping with @rokwon.bsky.social. This sounds great!

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/

Excited to share a recent review of Liars, by Sarah Manguso on @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social

My review of Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social www.zyzzyva.org/2024/10/11/a...

Shame: one of my favorite things to read about... one of my least favorite things to feel.... Here's a review I wrote for @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social about @melissapetro.bsky.social 's Shame On You www.zyzzyva.org/2024/11/04/b...

Lovely new review of Make Your Own Job in @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social! www.zyzzyva.org/2025/02/13/l...