Zone 3 Press

05/09/2024

Volume 38.2 is now live! Thank you to all the creatives involved in this issue. We hope you enjoy their wonderful work! Click the link in our bio to check it out, or visit us at www.zone3press.com.

03/21/2024

We are excited to welcome author Rigoberto González who is ready to read from his incredible memoir “Abuela in Shadow, Abuela in Light” for you! The reading will take place in room 120 of the Art + Design building, and we will be hosting a Q&A and book signing after the reading! This event is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served. We’ll see you there!

Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 7:00 PM

Thanks to CECA and APSU Language and Literature Department for sponsoring this event!

03/01/2024

Thank you everyone who came to our alumni reading last Thursday! Sugar le Fae and Joanna Grisham wonderful readings from their new books and talked to students about their time at APSU.

02/13/2024

We are thrilled to welcome to the stage our Austin Peay alumni, Joanna Grisham and Sugar Le Fae, who are recently published and ready to read some amazing work for you! The reading will take place in room 120 of the Art + Design building, and we’ll be hosting a Q&A, a book signing, and a ⚡️GIVEAWAY⚡️ after the reading! This event is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served. We’ll see you there!

Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 7:00 PM

Thanks to and for sponsoring this event!

02/08/2024

Come by and see us at ! We have our seed paper manifestation hearts again, and we’re excited to see y’all!!

02/05/2024

✒️ ANNOUNCING OUR AWP AUTHOR SIGNINGS🖋️

Hear ye, hear ye! Join us Friday, February 9, from 1:30 - 2:30 PM at AWP for a book signing, hosted by ! She will be signing copies of Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine (2023), a poetry collection and Zone 3’s First Book Award in Poetry winner! Drop by, grab a signature, and have a chat ✍🏻

02/02/2024

✒️ ANNOUNCING OUR AWP AUTHOR SIGNINGS🖋️

Hear ye, hear ye! Join us Friday, February 9, from 12:00 - 1:00 PM at AWP for our first book signing, hosted by ! She will be signing copies of A Woman, A Plan, An Outline of a Man (2020), a personal essay collection and an IPPY seal award winner! Drop by, grab a signature, and have a chat ✍🏻

01/30/2024

Look out for our table at next week! We’re so excited to be going for the first time since the pandemic, and we’re going to make it really special 🎉 See you there!

12/22/2023

✨Zone 3 Award Winners✨

Congratulations to our Zone 3 Genre Award winners! These authors were featured in Volume 38.1 and received a $250 cash prize! Click the link in our bio to read now.

12/08/2023

“She tries these characters on like auditioning for different roles or grabbing costumes from a rack… She doesn’t simply mourn Ophelia or Desdemona, she throws back the curtains, slams on the stage lights, and tries to write them out, into a better future, a brighter ending, for them, and for her.”

Maisie Williams, on Dayna Patterson’s O Lady, Speak Again (Signature Books, 2023)

Go check out her full review on our website - link in bio!
Maisie Williams is not *that* Maisie Williams. Her poems have been published in Rattle’s Poets Respond, and she is currently finishing her Master’s in English.

11/28/2023

✨Announcing our Pushcart Prize Nominations✨

Congratulations to our wonderful authors! All these titles were published in our Spring 2023 journal, which you can find free on our website. Click the link in our bio to read now!

11/17/2023

♥️♥️♥️Manifestation Hearts♥️♥️♥️

Y’all absolutely LOVED filling out our seed paper hearts at SoFest with all the things you’re manifesting for your writing goals or just general life things, and we’re here for it!

We wanted to let you know that we’re working on planting your hopes and dreams with the Austin Peay SOS Food Pantry, who have a wonderful space filled with trees, plants, crops, bees, and even chickens! The SOS Food Pantry organizes a lot of volunteering activities for students and employees alike, and they support students who struggle with food insecurity. So, we’re very honored to be working with them.

This project will be a couple months in the making as we head into the winter season, but we’ll posts updates as we get them! In the meantime, know that all of us at Zone 3 are manifesting these thoughts for you! ♥️

11/14/2023

And here’s our fiction exquisite co**se from our last day at SoFest! We were so happy to see those who contributed to our exquisite co**ses get excited about writing together, and overall, we think our cooperative efforts ended up pretty interesting! The twists and turns in this one 😧 Check out the transcript below⬇️⬇️⬇️
My feet pounded against the pavement, the air, thin and cold, burning my lungs. I knew there was such a thing as a runner’s high, but it seemed more and more fictional with every second.

Maybe that only happens when you aren’t being chased. My throat itched from the sharp, cold air, but I never felt more alive!

The sun created a shadow, long and dark, that reached for me. And I found myself stretching my hand toward the darkness, too. I craved to be embraced by it. It seemed oddly comforting.

I reached and my fingers found a puddle. It was not shallow but deep. I pushed my hand into its depths, feeling a cold wrap around my fingers. There was comfort, but there was fear too. Grit and rocks rolled under my hand.

I kept my hand there until the rocks got warm. When my hand emerged from the water I felt refreshed and ready to start anew.

I looked to the ground. I saw the shadow of my new dragon wings greeting me.

There is a heavy pressure on my chest and a pair of green eyes glinting at me. As the eyes sparkle, I feel a pulsing energy radiating down my arms. Had we bonded so quickly?

I then startled, as a voice sounded clearly in my head.

“Is this what you want? What you really want?”

I start to panic. “Is this my voice?” I turn to see if there’s a person around. Is someone talking to me through my mind?

11/13/2023

Here’s the result of our wonderful exquisite co**se poem from SoFest a few weeks ago! Thank you to everyone who participated, and stay tuned for our fiction one tomorrow!
My tongue becomes a little mist
words evaporating, my throat thick with unspoken
rhymes never to be told and words spoken with
silent glances in the darkness

It’s a mercy that your name never passes my lips.
You’ve made sure its Astringency never leaves my palate, a prayer known only to me.

Palate placement makes all of the
knees aside me quake
But I’ve spent enough time
on my knees, worn a
groove
through the blades of grass making an
imprint on my heart.

A deep, grand cut that’s been there
from the start
Rising to expose my innermost, most intimate me
A silent truth with a hungry voice.

I met a hound called Iris, dragonfire on her tongue,
Stopped to get a burger, after her fries she was all done
Awakened later by a bark, Iris realized too late
how bright was the sun, and suddenly a kindness fell
upon
everyone like a weighted blanket of forgetting without
forgiveness. Sharp, and soft, all at the same time, warmth
still blooms, though barbed words can’t be unspoken

11/01/2023

Happy National Authors Day! Here’s to our wonderful authors - past, present, and soon-to-be 😉🥂

10/22/2023

We’re out here for one more day of , so come by and see us! We have a great exquisite co**se of fiction working and free books to hand out ✨

Here’s a little not-so-secret tip, too - we’re by the food trucks so you can get some yummy food after grabbing your free book!

10/19/2023

Catch us at this weekend! We’ll have a lot of goodies and some fun activities, so we promise our booth will be a good time ✨

10/09/2023

Meet our authors for the reading this Thursday night at 7!

Join us in the Art and Design building on Austin Peay’s campus for a night of yummy snacks and moving words.

10/02/2023

The 2022 First Book Award in Poetry winner is now live in the world! L.S. McKee’s Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine is the gem you’ve been waiting to pick up, so continue ignoring your growing TBR pile and RUN - don’t walk - to grab this book in our shop!

09/28/2023

Come join Zone 3 and for an on-campus reading with L. S. McKee and Tiana Clark, as we celebrate the launch of McKee’s brand new poetry book, Creature Wing Heart Machine! This event is free and open to the public.

Thursday, October 12 at 7:00 PM
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This wonderful book is only up for preorder for 2 more days before it fully launches this Sunday! Go to the link in our bio to preorder now.

09/26/2023

Congratulations and good luck to our chosen Best of the Net nominees! You can find these amazing works and many more in our Spring 2023 issue on our website.

09/25/2023

This week is your last chance to preorder L. S. McKee’s CREATURE WING HEART MACHINE before it flies out into the world October 1st!

Click the link in our bio for more info.

08/31/2023

Zone 3 journal is open for submissions! The editors look forward to reading your poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

Thanks for your interest in Zone 3 Press. Please look carefully at all of our submissions categories. Zone 3, a literary journal  Zone 3 is a biannual magazine.  Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry submissions will reopen August 31, 2023.  All contributors will receive payment for their accepted ...

04/18/2023

Congrats to George Choundas for the publication of his essay book Until All You See is Sky.

04/04/2023

Please join us tomorrow night in the Art and Design Building room 120 at 7 pm for Aram Goudsouzian. There will be light refreshments and a Q+A.

03/29/2023

Next Wednesday, April 5, 2023, CECA will be hosting Aram Goudsouzian in the Art and Design room 120 at 7 p.m. Please come to have light refreshments and a Q+A. It is open to the public.

03/21/2023

Tomorrow at 7 pm, CECA will be hosting Victoria Chang in the Art and Design Building Room 120. There would be a book signing and light refreshments for all participants. The event is also free for the public, so please feel free to invite your friends and families. We hope to see you there.

03/17/2023

CECA is hosting Victoria Chang on Wednesday, March 22, 2023, in the Art and Design Building room 120 beginning at 7 p.m.