ZYZZYVA Events
April 29, 2018Creating Home: On Finding Yourself in Another Culture
Location: 4:30 p.m., The Brower Center, Tamalpais Room, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley
Description: Bay Area Book Festival panel featuring authors Hernan Diaz (2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist), Rodrigo Hasbún, and Tommy Wieringa, moderated by Managing Editor Oscar Villalon. For more information, https://baybookfest.secure.force.com/ticket/#sections_a0F1N00000ohJDp
May 3, 2018ZYZZYVA Spring Issue Celebration, San Francisco
Location: 6:30 p.m., Mechanics's Institute Library, Fourth Floor, 57 Post St., San Francisco
Description: Featuring readings by contributors Natalie Serber, Christopher J. Adamson, Greg Sarris, Tom Barbash, and Mackenzie Evan Smith. Emceed by Managing Editor Oscar Villalon. Free for ZYZZYVA readers.
May 12, 2018ZYZZYVA at the Petaluma Arts Center
Location: 7 p.m., Petaluma Arts Center, 230 Lakeville Street, Petaluma
Description: Featuring readings by current and past contributors Tom Barbash, Vanessa Hua, Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Molly Giles, and Maddy Raskulinecz. For tickets, visit https://petalumaartscenter.org/events/?eid=11045
June 15, 2018Summer Dance Party 2018
Location: 6 p.m., Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco.
Description: ZYZZYVA's annual fundraiser, featuring Glen David Gold and Paul Beatty. Dancing, drinks, silent auction, and raffle. Tickets start at $25. For more info: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3379094
August 11, 2018ZYZZYVA Fiction Workshop with Anthony Marra
Location: Mechanics's Institute Building and ZYZZYVA offices, 57 Post Street, San Francisco
Description: A one-day intensive workshop with Marra, award-winning author of "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena" and "The Tsar of Love and Techno." Class size is very limited. Applications are due June 15. For more information, visit https://zyzzyva.submittable.com/submit/111999/fiction
August 18, 2018ZYZZYVA Poetry Workshop with Dean Rader
Location: Mechanics's Institute Building and ZYZZYVA Offices, 57 Post St., San Francisco
Description: A one-day intensive workshop with Rader, author of the poetry collections "Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry," "Landscape Portrait Figure Form" and "Works & Days." Class size is very limited. Application are due by June 18. For more information, visit https://zyzzyva.submittable.com/submit/106864/poetry
September 22, 2018ZYZZYVA Creative Nonfiction Workshop with Caille Millner
Location: Mechanics's Institute Building and ZYZZYVA Offices, 57 Post St., San Francisco
Description: A one-day intensive workshop with Millner, author of the memoir "The Golden Road: Notes on My Gentrification" and a columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. Class size is very limited. Applications are due by July 23. For more information, visit https://zyzzyva.submittable.com/submit/106865/creative-non-fiction
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‘Big Boss Bitch’ by Adrienne Celt, ZYZZYVA No. 107, Fall Issue
Adrienne Celt’s first novel, The Daughters (W.W. Norton/Liveright), won the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award and was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR. Her writing has been recognized by the PEN/O. Henry Prize, and her fiction has appeared in Esquire, The Kenyon Review, Epoch, Prairie Schooner, and Ecotone, among other places. She also publishes a webcomic at loveamongthelampreys.com.
Her work of fiction, “Big Boss Bitch,” which she describes as “my horror story about the first female president,” appears in the Winter issue. The “horror,” by the way, isn’t in the fact of having a female president, but what happens to said female president. The following is an excerpt, but if you’d like to read Celt’s story in its entirety, you can get a copy here.