Zone 3 Press

05/11/2025

Malcolm Glass has published poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and plays for over seventy years. It is to our great honor that he came and read at our festival. He founded Zone 3 in 1986 with David Till, and co-directed the creative writing program at APSU. He is a Fulbright Scholar and a recipient of Stetson University’s Distinguished Alumni Award. At Austin Peay State University, he was awarded the Distinguished Professor Award and the Richard M. Hawkins Award for Creative Achievement. He has published 6 poetry collections and has over half a dozen books published with Scholastic Books.

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05/08/2025

The Zone 3 Writers Festival was a great success thanks to our faculty, interns, local community, and guests from across the region! Expect next year's festival to be bigger and better.

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05/02/2025

We were so happy to have Heather Hawk join us for our first Zone 3 Writers Festival as the Nonfiction Winner for issue 39.1! Heather gave a reading of her work, led a workshop on connecting the body to writing, and spoke with attendees all day.

Thank you, Heather, for being invested in our festival and the literary community.

Read Heather's work, "A Forager's Guide to Love" in our latest issue (link in bio).

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Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at APSU

05/01/2025

From Author’s Bio: “Genevieve Abravanel’s short fiction is available or forthcoming in American Short Fiction, The Missouri Review, Story, Ecotone, and elsewhere. She has published a scholarly book with Oxford University Press (Chinese translation with The Commercial Press of Beijing) and received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Association of University Women. She teaches English in Lancaster, PA, where she lives with her family, and is currently working on a novel.”

Check out this work and more in our newest issue!

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Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at APSU
APSU Department of Languages and Literature

04/30/2025

Agnew joined us at the inaugural Zone 3 Writers Festival as our 39.1 Edition Fiction Winner! We were so pleased to host a reading with Bryn where he read his short story, "Raptors in the Later Age" and spoke with our festival attendees. Bryn was a joy to have at the festival, and we can't stop raving about his work!

Thank you, Bryn, for helping make our first festival a memorable one.

Read Bryn's story in Volume 39.1 on our website (link in bio).

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Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at APSU

04/30/2025

Check out our new issue on our website, and all of these other wonderful journals and magazines!

We’re proud to share this list of literary journals—all members of CLMP—publishing new poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork, and more in April 2025.   The Adroit Journal | Issue 53 Featuring poetry by Luther Hughes and Francisco Márquez, creative nonfiction by Jennifer Kabat, fiction by Lind...

04/27/2025

Thank you for having us!

04/25/2025

The Reviews Are In: You all loved our inaugural Zone 3 Writers Festival! Thank you to everyone who joined us and helped make this event possible. We are so glad that over a HUNDRED attendees were able to enjoy a full day of literary community.

Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at APSU
APSU Department of Languages and Literature
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04/24/2025

From Author’s Bio: “Mary Meriam studied poetry at Columbia University (MFA) and Bennington College (BA). She works as an editor and publisher of le***an poetry and art, and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arkansas. Her most recent poetry collection is Pools of June (Exot Books, 2022). Her poems have appeared in Literary Imagination, Literary Matters, Poetry, Post Road, Prelude, Rattle, Subtropics, and The Poetry Review.”

Check out this work and more in our newest issue!

Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at APSU
APSU Department of Languages and Literature

04/23/2025

This year was the first Tennessee Emerging Creative Writers Contest, sponsored by Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at APSU (CECA) and co-hosted by Zone 3 Press and The Red Mud Review. High school students from across Tennessee submitted to this contest.

The following are the winners for each grade:

9th Grade Winners
Gisselle Gonzalez: Poetry
Kate Zhenzhu Wu: Fiction
Alyse McLain: Personal Essay

10th Grade Winners
Gabrielle Dye: Poetry
Ella Liu: Fiction
Adele Pitts: Personal Essay


11th Grade Winners
Taylor Wilson: Poetry
Varshini Mohan: Fiction
Ariel Burleson: Fiction


Senior Finalists
Corabelle Beazley
Yeseul Jang
Avery Lowell
Alana Mickens
Hunter Timmons

Avery Lowell and Yesuel Jang both won $1,500 scholarships to attend APSU!

Thank you to all of the students who submitted this year! Along with a certificate and recognition, all students will receive a publication in Austin Peay State University's student-led publication, The Red Mud Review. (Follow them for updates on Instagram )

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04/21/2025

From Author’s Bio: “Sam Yaziji is a poet and writer from Miami, Florida. He is currently an MFA student at San Diego State University, and he also paints Byzantine icons. His research interests include Eastern Christian hymnography, wartime poetry, and cybernetics. You can find him on Instagram .”

Check out this work and more in our newest issue!

Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at APSU
APSU Department of Languages and Literature

04/20/2025

We loved having the library at our first festival!

The Woodward Library had a wonderful time at the Zone 3 Writing Festival last week! Here you can see Stephanie and April ready to help attendees discover the resources available in our Library. Thank you to everyone who connected with us to learn how the Library supports academic success. 🖤❤