Rigoberto González to read “Abuela in Shadow, Abuela in Light”
Join the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts as author Rigoberto González reads from his memoir, Abuela in Shadow, Abuela in Light, Thursday, April 4
Join the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts as author Rigoberto González reads from his memoir, Abuela in Shadow, Abuela in Light, Thursday, April 4
Join us as Austin Peay alumni, Joanna Grisham and Sugar Le Fae, read from their most recently published work on Thursday, February 22, 2024 at
Our 2022 First Book Award winner, L.S. McKee’s Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine, is now available for order! For more information about this poetry collection, check it
Zone 3 and the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts are very excited to host a reading with L. S. McKee and Tiana Clark.
Join the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts as author Joe Milan reads from his debut novel, The All-American, this Thursday, September 14 at 7
The Zone 3 2022 First Book Award winner, L.S. McKee’s Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine, will launch October 1, 2023, but you can pre-order your copy
We are excited to announce that judge Tiana Clark has selected L.S. McKee’s Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine as the winner of our 2022 First Book
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – The Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts will host author Aram Goudsouzian from 7-9 p.m. April 5 in Heydel
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – The Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts will host author Victoria Chang on March 22, from 7-9 p.m. in Heydel Hall, located inside the APSU Art + Design building.
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – The Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts (CECA) at Austin Peay State University will host bestselling author Bonnie Jo Campbell on February 15 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm in Art & Design room 120.
Join us for a poetry reading by APSU alums Alexa Doran, Chris Hayes, and Victoria Moore! These talented writers will also join our workshop on September 15th.
Zone 3’s Annual Broadside Competition is on a brief hiatus, but it will return soon!
We are excited to announce that judge Wendy S. Walters has selected Erin Langner’s Souvenirs from Paradise as the winner of our 2021 Creative Nonfiction Book Award!
Zone 3 is excited to announce the winners of its annual literary awards in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction: Gemini Wahhaj, Juleen Eun Sun Johnson, and Gwendolyn Paradice.
Writer, educator and spoken word poet Sarah Kay will bring her engaging performance style to Austin Peay State University through a live virtual appearance at 8 p.m. CST on Thursday, Oct. 7.
Poets Paige Lewis, Komal Mathew, and Emily Spencer will present a virtual reading of their poetry on Sept. 16 for Zone 3 Press’s First Book Award Poetry Reading.
On a May afternoon in 2013, Barry Kitterman stood inside the Mable Larson Gallery of the Harned Building, celebrating the end of the semester with colleagues and students.
Nova Cypress Black Wins the 2020 Broadside Competition
Join us for a reading with Diana Khoi Nguyen on February 4, 2021 at 7:30 CST via Zoom Webinar. Click this link to register. This event is hosted by Zone 3 Press and the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at Austin Peay State University.
Zone 3 is pleased to announce the winners of its annual fiction, poetry, and nonfiction contests: Darius Atefat-Peckham, Kathryn Nuernberger, and Heather Turbeville.
We are beyond excited to announce the co-winners of our 2020 Zone 3 Press First Book Award in Poetry. Judge Paige Lewis selected East Walnut Hills: A Gothic Epic by Emily Spencer and For Daughters Who Walk Out Like Sons by Komal Mathew! These books will be published in fall 2021.
Zone 3 is happy to host another reading, featuring Bill Konigsberg, on October 14 at 7 PM CDT!
We are pleased to announce the second annual Zone 3 Press Broadside Competition. This competition is a collaboration between Zone 3 Press and The Goldsmith Press & Rare Type Collection of Austin Peay State University.
Sarah Kasbeer’s A Woman, a Plan, an Outline of a Man is available now! Read an excerpt HERE. Purchase it HERE. What others are saying:
“Psalm 8” by Julie Swarstad Johnson was the winner of our 2019 Broadside Competition, and the broadside edition is now available for purchase.
Upcoming Reading Alert! Zone 3 Press is happy to be hosting its first reading of the semester on September 10 at 7 PM, welcoming Sarah Kasbeer and Alice Bolin as the featured panelists.
At Zone 3 Press and Zone 3 journal we stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.
Cathryn Hankla will present her work Thursday, Feb. 6th, at 8 PM in the Art & Design Building, Heydel Hall (Room 120) as part of the Zone 3 Reading Series. A reception and book signing will follow. This event is free and open to the public.
Zone 3 is pleased to announce the winners of its annual fiction, poetry, and nonfiction contests.
Join us for a reading with Patty Crane and Jenn Givhan in celebration of the Zone 3 Press First Book Award in Poetry. Crane’s manuscript, Bell I Wake To, was selected by judge Jenn Givhan as winner of this contest. A book signing and reception will follow the reading. All Zone 3 Reading Series events are free and open to the public.
We are pleased to announce the first ever Zone 3 Press Broadside Competition. This competition is a collaboration between Zone 3 Press and the Goldsmith Press & Rare Type Collection of Austin Peay State University.
As part of the Zone 3 Reading series, Margaret Renkl will visit APSU to read from her new book, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss, on Wednesday, September 11. The reading will take place in room 120 of the Art & Design building and will begin at 8 p.m. A reception and book signing will follow the event.
We are happy to announce that judge Alice Bolin has selected Sarah Kasbeer’s A Woman, a Plan, an Outline of a Man as winner of the 2019 Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Book Award! Sarah will receive $1,000, and her book will be published in the fall of 2020.
Zone 3 is pleased to announce the winners of its annual fiction, poetry, and nonfiction contests: Randal O’Wain for his story “Hallelujah Station” (Fall 2018); Ethan Chua for his poem “Immigrant Prayer” (Spring 2018); and Carrie Shipers for her essay “Mea Culpa, My Monster” (Fall 2018).
We are happy to announce that judge Jenn Givhan has selected Patty Crane’s BELL I WAKE TO as the 2018 winner of the Zone 3 Press First Book Award for Poetry! Patty will receive $1,000, and her book will be published in the fall of 2019.
Zone 3 and the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at APSU will be hosting a reading by Steve Yarbrough in the Margaret Fort Trahern Laboratory Theater.
Former Zone 3 editor Blas Falconer is the author of multiple books, including Forgive the Body This Failure, The Foundling Wheel, A Questions of Gravity and Light, and The Perfect Hour. Falconer teaches in the MFA program at San Diego State University. To learn more, visit blasfalconer.com.
As we close out the year and our reading period, Zone 3 editors reminisce on the past year.
Zone 3 Press and the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts will host a reading by writer Eric LeMay on March 1 @ 4:00 pm in the Art & Design Building, room 120. A reception and book signing will follow the reading.
Carrie Meadows is author of Speak, My Tongue (Calypso Editions, 2017), a poetry collection celebrating self-taught artists of the American South.
A meal of homemade soups and bread, prepared by faculty members in the Department of Languages & Literature, will be served at 6:00, followed by a reading at 7:00. This year’s readers are Hannah Boyd, Tim Donahoo, Caleb Ervin, Arizona Hurn, Barry Kitterman & Allison Parker. Music by Chuck Emery. A $5 donation for the APSU Food Pantry is requested at the door.
We are happy to announce that judge Janisse Ray has selected Kelly Beard’s memoir, AN IMPERFECT RAPTURE, as the 2017 winner of the Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Book Award! Kelly will receive $1,000, and her book will be published in the fall of 2018.
On October 26, 2017 at 4 pm in the APSU Art & Design Building, Room 120, Stephanie Dugger, an alumna of Austin Peay, will read from her new book, Either Way, You’re Done (Sundress Publications, 2017). Her chapbook, Sterling (Paper Nautilus, 2015), won the Vella Chapbook contest. She teaches at Austin Peay State University and is Assistant Poetry Editor for Zone 3 literary journal.
Zone 3 is pleased to announce the winners of our annual nonfiction, fiction, and poetry contests: Dan Beachy-Quick, for his essay “, Even” (Spring 2017); A.D. Lauren, for her poem “Hermeneutics of a 21-year-old’s Death” (Fall 2017); and Yuly Restrepo, for her story “Morocho” (Spring 2017).
Cait Weiss Orcutt and Douglas Kearney will give a reading from their work on October 5, 2017 at 8pm.
STEVEN SHERRILL has been making trouble with words since 8th grade, when he was suspended from school for two weeks for a story he wrote.
DOROTHY ALLISON, recipient of the 2016-17 Acuff Chair of Excellence, will give a reading from her work on April 7, 2017 at 8 pm in the APSU Mabry Concert Hall.
ERIK ANDERSON won the 2015 Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Book Award for his collection of essays, FLUTTER POINT (Zone 3 Press, March 15, 2017). AMY FUSSELMAN is a writer, editor, and publisher based in New York City.
We are happy to announce that judge Douglas Kearney has selected Cait Weiss Orcutt’s collection VALLEYSPEAK as the 2016 winner of the Zone 3 Press First Book Award. Cait will receive $1,000, and her book will be published in the fall of 2017. Congratulations, Cait!
A meal of homemade soups and bread, prepared by faculty members in the Department of Languages & Literature, will be served at 6:00, followed by a reading at 7:00.
Zone 3 Press is pleased to announce that Erik Anderson’s forthcoming collection of essays, Flutter Point, is now available for preorder. Erik’s manuscript was selected by Amy Fusselman
ZONE 3 is pleased to announce the winners of our annual nonfiction, fiction, and poetry contests: David Huddle, for his essay “Verbal Binary Presence in Early Childhood Development, that Infamously Difficult Poetic Form the Villanelle, and the Spiritual Quotidian” (Fall 2016); James Braziel, for his story “Shiner” (Spring 2016); and Erinn Batykefer, for her poem “Two Bees” (Spring 2016).
A reading to celebrate Zone 3’s 30th anniversary featuring Dustin Parsons, Gary McDowell & Caitlin McGuire
Allison is the author of the poetry collection The Women Who Hate Me: Poems 1980–1990
Reading Features Andrea Spofford, Amy Wright, and Barry Kitterman
Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of three poetry collections: Lucky Fish (2011), winner of the gold medal in poetry from the Independent Publisher Book Awards and the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize for Independent Books; At the Drive-in Volcano (2007), winner of the Balcones Prize; and Miracle Fruit (2003), winner of Tupelo Press Prize, ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Award, the Global Filipino Award and finalist for the Glasgow Prize and the Asian American Literary Award.
Iconoclast reviews Z3’s Fall 2015 issue, calling it “the right mix of the literary and the accessible, the intimate and the grand.”
Zone 3 Press is proud to announce Museum of Distance, the first collection of works from poet Ashley Seitz Kramer.
The Spring 2016 issue of Zone 3 opens without preface or fanfare, allowing the writing to speak for itself.
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn.– Austin Peay State University Associate Professor of Creative Writing Dr. Amy Wright is preparing for a busy 2016, as the poet, author and teacher will publish four collections of her writing, including her fifth chapbook, “Wherever The Land Is.”
We are excited to welcome our esteemed alumni back to Austin Peay for a reading at The Trahern Gallery. Join us at 4:00pm to hear Raven
Join the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts as author Rigoberto González reads from his memoir, Abuela in Shadow, Abuela in Light, Thursday, April 4
Join us as Austin Peay alumni, Joanna Grisham and Sugar Le Fae, read from their most recently published work on Thursday, February 22, 2024 at
Our 2022 First Book Award winner, L.S. McKee’s Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine, is now available for order! For more information about this poetry collection, check it
Zone 3 and the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts are very excited to host a reading with L. S. McKee and Tiana Clark.
Join the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts as author Joe Milan reads from his debut novel, The All-American, this Thursday, September 14 at 7
The Zone 3 2022 First Book Award winner, L.S. McKee’s Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine, will launch October 1, 2023, but you can pre-order your copy
We are excited to announce that judge Tiana Clark has selected L.S. McKee’s Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine as the winner of our 2022 First Book
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – The Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts will host author Aram Goudsouzian from 7-9 p.m. April 5 in Heydel
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – The Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts will host author Victoria Chang on March 22, from 7-9 p.m. in Heydel Hall, located inside the APSU Art + Design building.
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – The Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts (CECA) at Austin Peay State University will host bestselling author Bonnie Jo Campbell on February 15 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm in Art & Design room 120.
Join us for a poetry reading by APSU alums Alexa Doran, Chris Hayes, and Victoria Moore! These talented writers will also join our workshop on September 15th.
Zone 3’s Annual Broadside Competition is on a brief hiatus, but it will return soon!
We are excited to announce that judge Wendy S. Walters has selected Erin Langner’s Souvenirs from Paradise as the winner of our 2021 Creative Nonfiction Book Award!
Zone 3 is excited to announce the winners of its annual literary awards in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction: Gemini Wahhaj, Juleen Eun Sun Johnson, and Gwendolyn Paradice.
Writer, educator and spoken word poet Sarah Kay will bring her engaging performance style to Austin Peay State University through a live virtual appearance at 8 p.m. CST on Thursday, Oct. 7.
Poets Paige Lewis, Komal Mathew, and Emily Spencer will present a virtual reading of their poetry on Sept. 16 for Zone 3 Press’s First Book Award Poetry Reading.
On a May afternoon in 2013, Barry Kitterman stood inside the Mable Larson Gallery of the Harned Building, celebrating the end of the semester with colleagues and students.
Nova Cypress Black Wins the 2020 Broadside Competition
Join us for a reading with Diana Khoi Nguyen on February 4, 2021 at 7:30 CST via Zoom Webinar. Click this link to register. This event is hosted by Zone 3 Press and the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at Austin Peay State University.
Zone 3 is pleased to announce the winners of its annual fiction, poetry, and nonfiction contests: Darius Atefat-Peckham, Kathryn Nuernberger, and Heather Turbeville.
We are beyond excited to announce the co-winners of our 2020 Zone 3 Press First Book Award in Poetry. Judge Paige Lewis selected East Walnut Hills: A Gothic Epic by Emily Spencer and For Daughters Who Walk Out Like Sons by Komal Mathew! These books will be published in fall 2021.
Zone 3 is happy to host another reading, featuring Bill Konigsberg, on October 14 at 7 PM CDT!
We are pleased to announce the second annual Zone 3 Press Broadside Competition. This competition is a collaboration between Zone 3 Press and The Goldsmith Press & Rare Type Collection of Austin Peay State University.
Sarah Kasbeer’s A Woman, a Plan, an Outline of a Man is available now! Read an excerpt HERE. Purchase it HERE. What others are saying:
“Psalm 8” by Julie Swarstad Johnson was the winner of our 2019 Broadside Competition, and the broadside edition is now available for purchase.
Upcoming Reading Alert! Zone 3 Press is happy to be hosting its first reading of the semester on September 10 at 7 PM, welcoming Sarah Kasbeer and Alice Bolin as the featured panelists.
At Zone 3 Press and Zone 3 journal we stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.
Cathryn Hankla will present her work Thursday, Feb. 6th, at 8 PM in the Art & Design Building, Heydel Hall (Room 120) as part of the Zone 3 Reading Series. A reception and book signing will follow. This event is free and open to the public.
Zone 3 is pleased to announce the winners of its annual fiction, poetry, and nonfiction contests.
Join us for a reading with Patty Crane and Jenn Givhan in celebration of the Zone 3 Press First Book Award in Poetry. Crane’s manuscript, Bell I Wake To, was selected by judge Jenn Givhan as winner of this contest. A book signing and reception will follow the reading. All Zone 3 Reading Series events are free and open to the public.
We are pleased to announce the first ever Zone 3 Press Broadside Competition. This competition is a collaboration between Zone 3 Press and the Goldsmith Press & Rare Type Collection of Austin Peay State University.
As part of the Zone 3 Reading series, Margaret Renkl will visit APSU to read from her new book, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss, on Wednesday, September 11. The reading will take place in room 120 of the Art & Design building and will begin at 8 p.m. A reception and book signing will follow the event.
We are happy to announce that judge Alice Bolin has selected Sarah Kasbeer’s A Woman, a Plan, an Outline of a Man as winner of the 2019 Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Book Award! Sarah will receive $1,000, and her book will be published in the fall of 2020.
Zone 3 is pleased to announce the winners of its annual fiction, poetry, and nonfiction contests: Randal O’Wain for his story “Hallelujah Station” (Fall 2018); Ethan Chua for his poem “Immigrant Prayer” (Spring 2018); and Carrie Shipers for her essay “Mea Culpa, My Monster” (Fall 2018).
We are happy to announce that judge Jenn Givhan has selected Patty Crane’s BELL I WAKE TO as the 2018 winner of the Zone 3 Press First Book Award for Poetry! Patty will receive $1,000, and her book will be published in the fall of 2019.
Zone 3 and the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at APSU will be hosting a reading by Steve Yarbrough in the Margaret Fort Trahern Laboratory Theater.
Former Zone 3 editor Blas Falconer is the author of multiple books, including Forgive the Body This Failure, The Foundling Wheel, A Questions of Gravity and Light, and The Perfect Hour. Falconer teaches in the MFA program at San Diego State University. To learn more, visit blasfalconer.com.
As we close out the year and our reading period, Zone 3 editors reminisce on the past year.
Zone 3 Press and the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts will host a reading by writer Eric LeMay on March 1 @ 4:00 pm in the Art & Design Building, room 120. A reception and book signing will follow the reading.
Carrie Meadows is author of Speak, My Tongue (Calypso Editions, 2017), a poetry collection celebrating self-taught artists of the American South.
A meal of homemade soups and bread, prepared by faculty members in the Department of Languages & Literature, will be served at 6:00, followed by a reading at 7:00. This year’s readers are Hannah Boyd, Tim Donahoo, Caleb Ervin, Arizona Hurn, Barry Kitterman & Allison Parker. Music by Chuck Emery. A $5 donation for the APSU Food Pantry is requested at the door.
We are happy to announce that judge Janisse Ray has selected Kelly Beard’s memoir, AN IMPERFECT RAPTURE, as the 2017 winner of the Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Book Award! Kelly will receive $1,000, and her book will be published in the fall of 2018.
On October 26, 2017 at 4 pm in the APSU Art & Design Building, Room 120, Stephanie Dugger, an alumna of Austin Peay, will read from her new book, Either Way, You’re Done (Sundress Publications, 2017). Her chapbook, Sterling (Paper Nautilus, 2015), won the Vella Chapbook contest. She teaches at Austin Peay State University and is Assistant Poetry Editor for Zone 3 literary journal.
Zone 3 is pleased to announce the winners of our annual nonfiction, fiction, and poetry contests: Dan Beachy-Quick, for his essay “, Even” (Spring 2017); A.D. Lauren, for her poem “Hermeneutics of a 21-year-old’s Death” (Fall 2017); and Yuly Restrepo, for her story “Morocho” (Spring 2017).
Cait Weiss Orcutt and Douglas Kearney will give a reading from their work on October 5, 2017 at 8pm.
STEVEN SHERRILL has been making trouble with words since 8th grade, when he was suspended from school for two weeks for a story he wrote.
DOROTHY ALLISON, recipient of the 2016-17 Acuff Chair of Excellence, will give a reading from her work on April 7, 2017 at 8 pm in the APSU Mabry Concert Hall.
ERIK ANDERSON won the 2015 Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Book Award for his collection of essays, FLUTTER POINT (Zone 3 Press, March 15, 2017). AMY FUSSELMAN is a writer, editor, and publisher based in New York City.
We are happy to announce that judge Douglas Kearney has selected Cait Weiss Orcutt’s collection VALLEYSPEAK as the 2016 winner of the Zone 3 Press First Book Award. Cait will receive $1,000, and her book will be published in the fall of 2017. Congratulations, Cait!
A meal of homemade soups and bread, prepared by faculty members in the Department of Languages & Literature, will be served at 6:00, followed by a reading at 7:00.
Zone 3 Press is pleased to announce that Erik Anderson’s forthcoming collection of essays, Flutter Point, is now available for preorder. Erik’s manuscript was selected by Amy Fusselman
ZONE 3 is pleased to announce the winners of our annual nonfiction, fiction, and poetry contests: David Huddle, for his essay “Verbal Binary Presence in Early Childhood Development, that Infamously Difficult Poetic Form the Villanelle, and the Spiritual Quotidian” (Fall 2016); James Braziel, for his story “Shiner” (Spring 2016); and Erinn Batykefer, for her poem “Two Bees” (Spring 2016).
A reading to celebrate Zone 3’s 30th anniversary featuring Dustin Parsons, Gary McDowell & Caitlin McGuire
Allison is the author of the poetry collection The Women Who Hate Me: Poems 1980–1990
Reading Features Andrea Spofford, Amy Wright, and Barry Kitterman
Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of three poetry collections: Lucky Fish (2011), winner of the gold medal in poetry from the Independent Publisher Book Awards and the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize for Independent Books; At the Drive-in Volcano (2007), winner of the Balcones Prize; and Miracle Fruit (2003), winner of Tupelo Press Prize, ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Award, the Global Filipino Award and finalist for the Glasgow Prize and the Asian American Literary Award.
Iconoclast reviews Z3’s Fall 2015 issue, calling it “the right mix of the literary and the accessible, the intimate and the grand.”
Zone 3 Press is proud to announce Museum of Distance, the first collection of works from poet Ashley Seitz Kramer.
The Spring 2016 issue of Zone 3 opens without preface or fanfare, allowing the writing to speak for itself.
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn.– Austin Peay State University Associate Professor of Creative Writing Dr. Amy Wright is preparing for a busy 2016, as the poet, author and teacher will publish four collections of her writing, including her fifth chapbook, “Wherever The Land Is.”
We are excited to welcome our esteemed alumni back to Austin Peay for a reading at The Trahern Gallery. Join us at 4:00pm to hear Raven
Join the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts as author Rigoberto González reads from his memoir, Abuela in Shadow, Abuela in Light, Thursday, April 4
Join us as Austin Peay alumni, Joanna Grisham and Sugar Le Fae, read from their most recently published work on Thursday, February 22, 2024 at
Our 2022 First Book Award winner, L.S. McKee’s Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine, is now available for order! For more information about this poetry collection, check it
Zone 3 and the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts are very excited to host a reading with L. S. McKee and Tiana Clark.
Join the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts as author Joe Milan reads from his debut novel, The All-American, this Thursday, September 14 at 7
The Zone 3 2022 First Book Award winner, L.S. McKee’s Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine, will launch October 1, 2023, but you can pre-order your copy
We are excited to announce that judge Tiana Clark has selected L.S. McKee’s Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine as the winner of our 2022 First Book
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – The Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts will host author Aram Goudsouzian from 7-9 p.m. April 5 in Heydel
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – The Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts will host author Victoria Chang on March 22, from 7-9 p.m. in Heydel Hall, located inside the APSU Art + Design building.
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – The Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts (CECA) at Austin Peay State University will host bestselling author Bonnie Jo Campbell on February 15 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm in Art & Design room 120.
Join us for a poetry reading by APSU alums Alexa Doran, Chris Hayes, and Victoria Moore! These talented writers will also join our workshop on September 15th.
Zone 3’s Annual Broadside Competition is on a brief hiatus, but it will return soon!
We are excited to announce that judge Wendy S. Walters has selected Erin Langner’s Souvenirs from Paradise as the winner of our 2021 Creative Nonfiction Book Award!
Zone 3 is excited to announce the winners of its annual literary awards in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction: Gemini Wahhaj, Juleen Eun Sun Johnson, and Gwendolyn Paradice.
Writer, educator and spoken word poet Sarah Kay will bring her engaging performance style to Austin Peay State University through a live virtual appearance at 8 p.m. CST on Thursday, Oct. 7.
Poets Paige Lewis, Komal Mathew, and Emily Spencer will present a virtual reading of their poetry on Sept. 16 for Zone 3 Press’s First Book Award Poetry Reading.
On a May afternoon in 2013, Barry Kitterman stood inside the Mable Larson Gallery of the Harned Building, celebrating the end of the semester with colleagues and students.
Nova Cypress Black Wins the 2020 Broadside Competition
Join us for a reading with Diana Khoi Nguyen on February 4, 2021 at 7:30 CST via Zoom Webinar. Click this link to register. This event is hosted by Zone 3 Press and the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at Austin Peay State University.
Zone 3 is pleased to announce the winners of its annual fiction, poetry, and nonfiction contests: Darius Atefat-Peckham, Kathryn Nuernberger, and Heather Turbeville.
We are beyond excited to announce the co-winners of our 2020 Zone 3 Press First Book Award in Poetry. Judge Paige Lewis selected East Walnut Hills: A Gothic Epic by Emily Spencer and For Daughters Who Walk Out Like Sons by Komal Mathew! These books will be published in fall 2021.
Zone 3 is happy to host another reading, featuring Bill Konigsberg, on October 14 at 7 PM CDT!
We are pleased to announce the second annual Zone 3 Press Broadside Competition. This competition is a collaboration between Zone 3 Press and The Goldsmith Press & Rare Type Collection of Austin Peay State University.
Sarah Kasbeer’s A Woman, a Plan, an Outline of a Man is available now! Read an excerpt HERE. Purchase it HERE. What others are saying:
“Psalm 8” by Julie Swarstad Johnson was the winner of our 2019 Broadside Competition, and the broadside edition is now available for purchase.
Upcoming Reading Alert! Zone 3 Press is happy to be hosting its first reading of the semester on September 10 at 7 PM, welcoming Sarah Kasbeer and Alice Bolin as the featured panelists.
At Zone 3 Press and Zone 3 journal we stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.
Cathryn Hankla will present her work Thursday, Feb. 6th, at 8 PM in the Art & Design Building, Heydel Hall (Room 120) as part of the Zone 3 Reading Series. A reception and book signing will follow. This event is free and open to the public.
Zone 3 is pleased to announce the winners of its annual fiction, poetry, and nonfiction contests.
Join us for a reading with Patty Crane and Jenn Givhan in celebration of the Zone 3 Press First Book Award in Poetry. Crane’s manuscript, Bell I Wake To, was selected by judge Jenn Givhan as winner of this contest. A book signing and reception will follow the reading. All Zone 3 Reading Series events are free and open to the public.
We are pleased to announce the first ever Zone 3 Press Broadside Competition. This competition is a collaboration between Zone 3 Press and the Goldsmith Press & Rare Type Collection of Austin Peay State University.
As part of the Zone 3 Reading series, Margaret Renkl will visit APSU to read from her new book, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss, on Wednesday, September 11. The reading will take place in room 120 of the Art & Design building and will begin at 8 p.m. A reception and book signing will follow the event.
We are happy to announce that judge Alice Bolin has selected Sarah Kasbeer’s A Woman, a Plan, an Outline of a Man as winner of the 2019 Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Book Award! Sarah will receive $1,000, and her book will be published in the fall of 2020.
Zone 3 is pleased to announce the winners of its annual fiction, poetry, and nonfiction contests: Randal O’Wain for his story “Hallelujah Station” (Fall 2018); Ethan Chua for his poem “Immigrant Prayer” (Spring 2018); and Carrie Shipers for her essay “Mea Culpa, My Monster” (Fall 2018).
We are happy to announce that judge Jenn Givhan has selected Patty Crane’s BELL I WAKE TO as the 2018 winner of the Zone 3 Press First Book Award for Poetry! Patty will receive $1,000, and her book will be published in the fall of 2019.
Zone 3 and the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at APSU will be hosting a reading by Steve Yarbrough in the Margaret Fort Trahern Laboratory Theater.
Former Zone 3 editor Blas Falconer is the author of multiple books, including Forgive the Body This Failure, The Foundling Wheel, A Questions of Gravity and Light, and The Perfect Hour. Falconer teaches in the MFA program at San Diego State University. To learn more, visit blasfalconer.com.
As we close out the year and our reading period, Zone 3 editors reminisce on the past year.
Zone 3 Press and the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts will host a reading by writer Eric LeMay on March 1 @ 4:00 pm in the Art & Design Building, room 120. A reception and book signing will follow the reading.
Carrie Meadows is author of Speak, My Tongue (Calypso Editions, 2017), a poetry collection celebrating self-taught artists of the American South.
A meal of homemade soups and bread, prepared by faculty members in the Department of Languages & Literature, will be served at 6:00, followed by a reading at 7:00. This year’s readers are Hannah Boyd, Tim Donahoo, Caleb Ervin, Arizona Hurn, Barry Kitterman & Allison Parker. Music by Chuck Emery. A $5 donation for the APSU Food Pantry is requested at the door.
We are happy to announce that judge Janisse Ray has selected Kelly Beard’s memoir, AN IMPERFECT RAPTURE, as the 2017 winner of the Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Book Award! Kelly will receive $1,000, and her book will be published in the fall of 2018.
On October 26, 2017 at 4 pm in the APSU Art & Design Building, Room 120, Stephanie Dugger, an alumna of Austin Peay, will read from her new book, Either Way, You’re Done (Sundress Publications, 2017). Her chapbook, Sterling (Paper Nautilus, 2015), won the Vella Chapbook contest. She teaches at Austin Peay State University and is Assistant Poetry Editor for Zone 3 literary journal.
Zone 3 is pleased to announce the winners of our annual nonfiction, fiction, and poetry contests: Dan Beachy-Quick, for his essay “, Even” (Spring 2017); A.D. Lauren, for her poem “Hermeneutics of a 21-year-old’s Death” (Fall 2017); and Yuly Restrepo, for her story “Morocho” (Spring 2017).
Cait Weiss Orcutt and Douglas Kearney will give a reading from their work on October 5, 2017 at 8pm.
STEVEN SHERRILL has been making trouble with words since 8th grade, when he was suspended from school for two weeks for a story he wrote.
DOROTHY ALLISON, recipient of the 2016-17 Acuff Chair of Excellence, will give a reading from her work on April 7, 2017 at 8 pm in the APSU Mabry Concert Hall.
ERIK ANDERSON won the 2015 Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Book Award for his collection of essays, FLUTTER POINT (Zone 3 Press, March 15, 2017). AMY FUSSELMAN is a writer, editor, and publisher based in New York City.
We are happy to announce that judge Douglas Kearney has selected Cait Weiss Orcutt’s collection VALLEYSPEAK as the 2016 winner of the Zone 3 Press First Book Award. Cait will receive $1,000, and her book will be published in the fall of 2017. Congratulations, Cait!
A meal of homemade soups and bread, prepared by faculty members in the Department of Languages & Literature, will be served at 6:00, followed by a reading at 7:00.
Zone 3 Press is pleased to announce that Erik Anderson’s forthcoming collection of essays, Flutter Point, is now available for preorder. Erik’s manuscript was selected by Amy Fusselman
ZONE 3 is pleased to announce the winners of our annual nonfiction, fiction, and poetry contests: David Huddle, for his essay “Verbal Binary Presence in Early Childhood Development, that Infamously Difficult Poetic Form the Villanelle, and the Spiritual Quotidian” (Fall 2016); James Braziel, for his story “Shiner” (Spring 2016); and Erinn Batykefer, for her poem “Two Bees” (Spring 2016).
A reading to celebrate Zone 3’s 30th anniversary featuring Dustin Parsons, Gary McDowell & Caitlin McGuire
Allison is the author of the poetry collection The Women Who Hate Me: Poems 1980–1990
Reading Features Andrea Spofford, Amy Wright, and Barry Kitterman
Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of three poetry collections: Lucky Fish (2011), winner of the gold medal in poetry from the Independent Publisher Book Awards and the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize for Independent Books; At the Drive-in Volcano (2007), winner of the Balcones Prize; and Miracle Fruit (2003), winner of Tupelo Press Prize, ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Award, the Global Filipino Award and finalist for the Glasgow Prize and the Asian American Literary Award.
Iconoclast reviews Z3’s Fall 2015 issue, calling it “the right mix of the literary and the accessible, the intimate and the grand.”
Zone 3 Press is proud to announce Museum of Distance, the first collection of works from poet Ashley Seitz Kramer.
The Spring 2016 issue of Zone 3 opens without preface or fanfare, allowing the writing to speak for itself.
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn.– Austin Peay State University Associate Professor of Creative Writing Dr. Amy Wright is preparing for a busy 2016, as the poet, author and teacher will publish four collections of her writing, including her fifth chapbook, “Wherever The Land Is.”
We are excited to welcome our esteemed alumni back to Austin Peay for a reading at The Trahern Gallery. Join us at 4:00pm to hear Raven
