We’re so excited to share that “Muscle to Muscle, Toe to Toe” by @kimsamek.bsky.social, which originally appeared in ZYZZYVA No. 129, has won a 2026 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction! Congratulations to Kim. What a joy to revisit this strange and singular story.
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We’re thrilled to publish excerpts of Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared: The Collected Letters of Jack Spicer, from @weslpress.bsky.social, introduced by its co-editor Daniel Benjamin. Plus Paul Wilner reviews the collection.
Spend time with this piece of Bay Area literary history: zyzzyva.org
Proud to have had @fetaplace.bsky.social in our Issue 105!
Thank you for the read! @abookanditsauthor.bsky.social
You too can read Issue 131: zyzzyva.org
Tonight! Excited to hear from Karen Russell (who we’re thrilled to have in our upcoming issue 132…)
7 pm, @booksmith.bsky.social, free to attend!
Come out tonight to see/hear our senior editor @manjula.bsky.social with Suzanne Simard + @greenapplebooks.bsky.social
7pm, SF Botanical Garden, free to attend!
“Literature, for Mayer, is an embodied and living thing, to be treated with as much love and familiarity—and as little veneration—as her own infant daughters.”
Maisie Bilston reviews Bernadette Mayer’s collection, The Golden Book of Words, reissued by @ndbooks.bsky.social
Read: zyzzyva.org
“Now the shadow that I couldn’t fully comprehend at the time, or separate from the other shocks I was going through—one I’d never paused to identify or process in the ensuing years—finally had form. It had witnesses.”
New nonfiction from Joe Donnelly in our latest issue! Read/subscribe: zyzzyva.org
Thrilled to be the West Bay bonus! Come see us tomorrow, hear poems, celebrate our newest Issue 131.
Friday, 6pm, Golden Sardine bar
Check out this exciting project that our Senior Editor @manjula.bsky.social is part of!
Join us this Friday! All words are welcome, as are listening ears, as we sit around a table with beer and water and share poems, very informally. Then troop over with us to Golden Sardine to listen to poets Kelly Gray, Nica Giromini, and Brian Ang on the mic for the @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social launch!
Join us next week to celebrate our new issue ZYZZYVA 131, this time on the San Francisco side of the bay at the fantastic Golden Sardine bar. Ft. readings from contributors Brian Ang, Nica Giromini, and Kelly Gray.
Friday, March 6, 6pm
@ Golden Sardine, SF
“I watched the moon abandon a sinking blue ship. The night we parted still glitters in me.”
New poetry from John Yau in our latest issue! Read + subscribe: zyzzyva.org
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Come see us tomorrow at Local Economy + pop right next door to visit the wonderful @ebbooksellers.bsky.social
Join us next week to toast our newest issue ZYZZYVA 131! Ft. readings from contributors @tomasmmoniz.bsky.social + @mawsheinwin.bsky.social + Suzanne Rivecca.
Thursday, 2/12, 6:30pm
@ Local Economy, Oakland
Read this new, vital interview in Issue 131: zyzzyva.org
“The person I call in situations like this is Colette, the city government version of me, an abstinent ex-junkie disliked by the mayor, with a soft spot for schizophrenics, a love for lancing abscesses, and zero work/life balance.”
New fiction from Suzanne Rivecca in our latest issue: zyzzyva.org
“What is one to make of these complex lives? Is forgiveness in order?”
Paul Wilner reviews Joan Silber’s novel, Mercy.
Read at zyzzyva.org
Our newest issue has arrived! Within 131 you’ll find new fiction, poems, nonfiction, art portfolio + a new Q&A.
Read Issue 131 (and subscribe!) at zyzzyva.org
“The question of where our gaze is focused, what is takes in and willfully shuts out, is integral to Animal Stories.”
Caio Driver reviews Kate Zambreno’s essay collection, Animal Stories, from @transitbooks.bsky.social
Read at zyzzyva.org
Join writer and ZYZZYVA contributor David Guterson for a writers’ workshop. February 7 at Mechanics’ Institute. Plus! ZYZZYVA subscribers/supporters get a course discount…
Wishing you a happy New Year’s Eve!
From all of us to you, thank you for championing ZYZZYVA this year. Whether you read, subscribed, donated, rocked a ZYZZYVA tote, celebrated new issues with us, or came out to a reading or movie night, we’re grateful for this one-of-a-kind literary community.
We got a match! Every donation made to ZYZZYVA will be matched dollar for dollar, up to $5,000. Now through December 31st. If you’ve been thinking about supporting our work, now is a fantastic time.
zyzzyva.org/donate
A new issue approaches! Just in time for holiday reading, ZYZZYVA No. 131 is available for pre-order.
Get your copy today: tinyurl.com/584cwnfr
The great Paul Beatty, a member of our Board of Directors, on supporting ZYZZYVA.
Read, subscribe, and/or donate: zyzzyva.org
Read Tom Bissell on Jaws in Issue 130: tinyurl.com/f8cx9c9f
