Publisher’s description: Founded in 1986, Zone 3 is an annual online literary journal published by the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts (CECA or “seek-ah”) at Austin Peay State University. Zone 3 publishes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction in a wide variety of aesthetics from both emerging and established writers.

Past contributors include Bruce Bond, A. Van Jordan, Kate Northrop, Nancy Eimers, H. L. Hix, Brenda Miller, Dinah Cox, Sara Majka, Geffrey Davis, Dinty W. Moore, John Sibley Williams, Lee Martin, Jill Talbot, Ira Sukrungruang, Mary Ann Samyn, David Huddle, Oliver de la Paz, Melody Gee, Michael Martone, and Lindsey Drager, as well as many emerging writers.

“…lovely, carefully crafted and enticing work…” –Sima Rabinowitz (NewPages.com)

“Over the years this biannual has become a top tier literary magazine. The nonfiction and stories are of a type that snare the reader on the first page, luring, keeping up interest all the way to the end. The poetry, though tending to a touch of the surreal and metaphysical, is the same way. Add a few poetry translations and the always-pithy interviews…and one has a fine few evenings’ reading material.” –Iconoclast Magazine

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