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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.

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Issue 19, Summer 2009
Short Fiction by Deirdre Coyle, Cassandra Clarke, Barbara A. Smith, Richard Thieme, R.I. Sutton, and B Robert Caporale.

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.

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NEWS
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008
, edited by Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, includes honorable mentions for three Zahir stories.  More.

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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