Cover painting by
Sarah Beth Goncarova
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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The
2008 Fall/Winter issue is here.
Issue 17 includes short fiction by Julie Stielstra, Karin
Gastreich, Julie
Cox, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Keith Proctor, Eilis O'Neal, Mithran
Somasundrum, and Richard Thieme.
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 current and past
issues.
NEWS
Desideria , the first
novel by Nicole Kornher-Stace, has just been
published by Prime Books and is available through Amazon.com. Nicole's
first published short story, "Pieces of Scheherazade," appeared in Zahir #9 and was later chosen to be
in Best American Fantasy.
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.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR
WRITERS
From time to time we
receive information on writing contests and calls
for submissions:
The James
Jones First Novel Fellowship
Annual $10,000 award
for a first unpublished novel.
Submission deadline:
March 1, 2009.
The Fish One-Page Short Story Prize
A First Prize of
€1,000 to the winner plus publication in the 2009 Fish Anthology. Opens
Jan. 1, 2009. Submission deadline March 20, 2009.
Fish Publishing, an
independent Irish publishing company, sponsors several literary
competitions a year.
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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