Zone 3 Press

06/11/2025

We were blown away by the incredible support and turnout for the inaugural Zone 3 Writers Festival. For the 2026 festival, there are big things on the horizon.

Stay tuned for more updates!

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06/04/2025

From the author's bio:

"Dr. Jessica Melilli-Hand, an associate professor of English at the College of Coastal Georgia, is published in CALYX, Hunger Mountain, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Minnesota Review, and elsewhere. She won first place in the Agnes Scott Poetry Competition three times: when judged by Terrance Hayes, Arda Collins, and Martín Espada."

Read more of Dr. Melilli-Hand's poem "The Brain-Doctor’s Tick-Tock Fingers Hold Just One Jane Here" in our latest issue on our website, link in bio.

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05/28/2025

Zone 3 Press has a rich history that we are proud to celebrate! Did you know about some of these big milestones? Our journal is now mostly student-led, with undergraduate and graduate students acting as readers, genre editors, community liaisons, social media content creators, and more!

Learn more about our history at our website, link in bio.

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Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at APSU

05/22/2025

From the author's bio:

"Sarah Fawn Montgomery is the author of Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop Your Disabled Writing Practice. She is also the author of Halfway from Home, Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir, and three poetry chapbooks. Abbreviate, a short collection of flash nonfiction, is forthcoming with Harbor Editions. She is an Associate Professor at Bridgewater State University."

Read "Snapdragon" in the latest issue at our website (link in bio).

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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

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