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Zahir is edited by Sheryl Tempchin and is published by Zahir Publishing three times a year in February, June, and October.

Subscriptions and single issues can be purchased online with credit card or PayPal from our ordering page.

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The Summer 2008 issue is now on sale.
Short fiction by Jane Lawless, Daniel Brugioni, Sarah Odishoo, Jeff P. Jones, Matthew David Brozik, Peter Higgins, Rob Pritchard, and Loreen Niewenhuis.

Zahir
is a tri-annual print journal dedicated to publishing the best in speculative fiction by both new and established writers. Each issue features an eclectic mix of literary fantasy, science fiction, magical realism, and stories that are not so easily classified.

We belong to the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses. Every year we nominate stories for the Pushcart Prize and other literary awards.

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Read sample stories from past issues.

NEWS
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 2007, edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant includes honorable mentions for ten Zahir stories from 2006. read more

Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition
, edited by Rich Horton, has reprinted "The Original Word for Rain" by Peter Higgins, which first appeared in Zahir #9.

Best American Fantasy
, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer,  includes "Pieces of Scheherezade" by Nicole Kornher Stace, which first appeared in Zahir #9.

REVIEWS
"Zahir has carved a nice niche publishing highly literary and usually somewhat lyrical stories at the fantastical end of the slipstream spectrum."
Rich Horton, Locus

"I've come to look forward to seeing what this zine will bring in next from the wild and ambiguous boundarylands between literary and genre territory."
Lois Tilton, IROSF

"If you enjoy speculative fiction, you won't regret a subscription to Zahir. "
Jennifer Gomoll Popolis, NewPages 




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Updated June, 2008
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