Dear Readers, Welcome to the new ZYZZYVA. After 26 years we’ve given the journal a new look, even a new heft. Over the past months we’ve worked on a redesign with Three Steps Ahead, the same California firm behind our new website. ZYZZYVA’s original print design, created with care by Thomas Ingalls & Associates in 1985, was elegant and restrained. We kept in mind the clarity and the spare beauty of their vision as we sought to add other elements speaking to the pleasures of print, to the craft of bookmaking, and to the stimulating quietude of reading. We considered […]
Issue: Volume 27, #2, Fall 2011
Here’s what’s in the Fall 2011 issue of ZYZZYVA: Award-winning authors and promising new writers; full color art work from Owen Smith, Katy Grannan, Sandow Birk and Julio Cesar Morales; forty more pages of the best fiction, poetry, nonfiction and art from West Coast artists and writers; elegantly redesigned journal featuring higher quality paper and French flaps