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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 works.
- If you have any questions or extenuating circumstances, please contact us at zone3@apsu.edu.
Zone 3 Press Book Awards
Zone 3 Press offers biennial book awards that alternate between poetry and creative nonfiction. The prize includes $1,000 and publication. The Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Book Award is currently on hiatus.
Guidelines:
- Zone 3 welcomes submissions of nonfiction in a wide variety of aesthetics from both emerging and established writers.
- During a submission period, please submit no more than one essay.
- We seldom publish prose that is more than 5,000 words in length.
- Our reading period for 2023 is from August 31st to November 17th. We make every effort to respond to all submissions within six months of receiving them.
- Zone 3 accepts simultaneous submissions, but please notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere. To withdraw an essay, please do so in Submittable.
- If your work is accepted for publication, you grant Zone 3 First North American serial rights and non-exclusive reprint rights. You also grant Zone 3 the right to display the work or a portion of the work on our website, in its marketing or promotion of the work, and within Zone 3 publications. All other rights remain yours as the sole owner of the work, including the right to offer the work for subsequent publication in a literary anthology.
We look forward to reading your work.
Guidelines:
- Zone 3 welcomes submissions of fiction in a wide variety of aesthetics from both emerging and established writers.
- During a submission period, please submit no more than one story.
- We seldom publish prose that is more than 5,000 words in length. We will consider novel excerpts and flash pieces.
- Our reading period for 2023 is from August 31st to November 17th. We make every effort to respond to all submissions within six months of receiving them.
- Zone 3 accepts simultaneous submissions, but please notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere. To withdraw, please do so in Submittable.
- If your work is accepted for publication, you grant Zone 3 First North American serial rights and non-exclusive reprint rights. You also grant Zone 3 the right to display the work or a portion of the work on our website, in its marketing or promotion of the work, and within Zone 3 publications. All other rights remain yours as the sole owner of the work, including the right to offer the work for subsequent publication in a literary anthology.
Send us your best story. We look forward to reading your work.
Guidelines:
- Zone 3 welcomes submissions of poetry in a wide variety of aesthetics from both emerging and established writers.
- For poetry, please submit no more than 6 poems.
- Our reading period for 2023 is from August 31st to November 17th. We make every effort to respond to all submissions within six months of receiving them.
- Zone 3 accepts simultaneous submissions, but please notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere. To withdraw, please email the poetry editor at duggers@apsu.edu.
- If your work is accepted for publication, you grant Zone 3 First North American serial rights and non-exclusive reprint rights. You also grant Zone 3 the right to display the work or a portion of the work on our website, in its marketing or promotion of the work, and within Zone 3 publications. All other rights remain yours as the sole owner of the work, including the right to offer the work for subsequent publication in a literary anthology.
We look forward to reading your work.
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