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About the press

Zone 3 Press is a nonprofit literary press dedicated to publishing and promoting the work of emerging writers. The press sponsors book contests in poetry and nonfiction: the Zone 3 Press First Book Award for Poetry and the Zone 3 Creative Nonfiction Book Award. Winners receive $1,000 and book publication, as well as an invitation to give a reading at APSU with the contest judge.

Publishing focus

PoetryCreative NonfictionEssay CollectionsMemoirPoetry Collections

Selected authors
Erik Anderson, Amanda Auchter, Leigh Anne Couch, Norman Dubie, Kate Gleason, Ashley Seitz Kramer, Andrew Kozma, John Pursley III, Kate Schmitt, Karen Skolfield, David Till, Nicole Walker

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Manuscript submissions

Reading periodJan 1 to Dec 31
Reading feeYes
Simultaneous submissionsYes
Unsolicited submissionsYes

The Zone 3 Press Book Awards are currently on hiatus. Check our Submittable page for updates.

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