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/
Pinned
ZYZZYVA
@zyzzyvamag.bsky.social
· Sep 24
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
This #givingtuesday help us make ZYZZYVA possible. Your gift, any shape and size, directly supports writers, artists, education, and community.
🔗 zyzzyva.org/donate
🔗 zyzzyva.org/donate
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.
🔗 zyzzyva.org/donate
🔗 zyzzyva.org/donate
"There are two San Franciscos at least. San Francisco remains a city of great beauty and disposition. It is also a city that is plagued by the effects of income disparity, a problem at the heart of much that is wrong with our country."
“A book is not interesting to me until it’s impossible for me to write”: Q&A with Robert Glück – ZYZZYVA
A chapter from Robert Glück’s Jack the Modernist appeared in the very first issue of ZYZZYVA in 1985. It’s the chapter where Bob, Glück’s avatar and the
www.zyzzyva.org
December 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
"There are two San Franciscos at least. San Francisco remains a city of great beauty and disposition. It is also a city that is plagued by the effects of income disparity, a problem at the heart of much that is wrong with our country."
Got your tickets for Wednesday? Movie night at the Roxie + our holiday party!
ZYZZYVA Movie Night with Ingrid Rojas Contreras: Aventurera
Co-presented with Litquake, San Francisco’s literary festival (October 9-25). For the last ZYZZYVA Movie Night of the year, Ingrid Rojas Contreras presents a special screening of Aventurera…
roxie.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Got your tickets for Wednesday? Movie night at the Roxie + our holiday party!
Reposted by ZYZZYVA
I still love reading journals and periodicals without needing to be logged in.
November 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I still love reading journals and periodicals without needing to be logged in.
Reposted by ZYZZYVA
bay area friends, this will be so lovely—a party 12/3 raising funds for @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social & @litquake.org, two beloved organizations hit hard by NEA & NEH cuts
hosted by daniel handler, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, jonathan escoffery, @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, & @alexismadrigal.bsky.social
hosted by daniel handler, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, jonathan escoffery, @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, & @alexismadrigal.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
bay area friends, this will be so lovely—a party 12/3 raising funds for @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social & @litquake.org, two beloved organizations hit hard by NEA & NEH cuts
hosted by daniel handler, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, jonathan escoffery, @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, & @alexismadrigal.bsky.social
hosted by daniel handler, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, jonathan escoffery, @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, & @alexismadrigal.bsky.social
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...
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
Embrace the unknown this Halloween season… 3 issues from our backlist, chosen at random, $25…
ZYZZYVA Mystery Bundle – ZYZZYVA
Do you want to be delightfully surprised? Does standing before the unknown thrill you? Order the Mystery Bundle and we will select at random three of our fantastic issues from our long backlist—all fo...
www.zyzzyva.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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
Read: tinyurl.com/bdm2frwj
Susan Griffin, influential Berkeley writer and feminist thinker, dies at 82
The author of “Woman and Nature” and narrator of “Berkeley in the Sixties” shaped generations of feminist writers and thinkers.
www.sfchronicle.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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
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!
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!
Come out to 7 Social SF on Thursday, we’d love to see you!
Event - ZYZZYVA Turns 40! A Literary Celebration
Join Mechanics' Institute and ZYZZYVA in saying Happy Birthday! to one of the Bay Area's beloved literary journals.
www.milibrary.org
October 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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
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
See you tomorrow?
ZYZZYVA Movie Night with Ingrid Rojas Contreras and Robert Samuels: Blindspotting
Co-presented with Litquake, San Francisco’s literary festival (October 9-25). For its special Litquake installment, ZYZZYVA Movie Night with Ingrid Rojas Contreras offers a critically acclaimed 2018…
roxie.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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
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
Reposted by ZYZZYVA
Reposted by ZYZZYVA
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...
October 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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...
Reposted by ZYZZYVA
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
@yerbabuenagardens.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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
@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
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
Reposted by ZYZZYVA
🥳 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/
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/
September 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
🥳 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/
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
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
Our new Issue No. 130 is almost here… and you can pre-order your copy!
ZYZZYVA No. 130 Fall 2025 – ZYZZYVA
ISSUE 130 200 pages In This Issue “The Farm” by Pepe Hernandez: As long as there was La Revolución, there would be rations for the weak as well as the strong, and as long as there were rations for th...
www.zyzzyva.org
September 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Our new Issue No. 130 is almost here… and you can pre-order your copy!
Reposted by ZYZZYVA
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
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
September 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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
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
Reposted by ZYZZYVA
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...
Sleep Phase and The Queen of Swords are both longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature. 📚 www.catranslation.org/books/#displ...
September 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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...
Sleep Phase and The Queen of Swords are both longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature. 📚 www.catranslation.org/books/#displ...
Reposted by ZYZZYVA
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...
September 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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...