Zyzzyva (magazine)

Zyzzyva is a triannual magazine of writers and artists. It places an emphasis on showcasing emerging voices and never before published writers in addition to the already established. Based in San Francisco, it began publishing in 1985.[1] ZYZZYVA's slogan is "The Last Word," referring to "zyzzyva", the last word in the American Heritage Dictionary. A zyzzyva is an American weevil. The accent is on the first syllable.

Zyzzyva
EditorLaura Cogan
CategoriesLiterary magazine
FrequencyTriannually
PublisherZyzzyva, Inc.
FounderHoward Junker
Year founded1985
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.zyzzyva.org
ISSN8756-5633

Editors

The founder was Howard Junker.[1] He retired from the magazine in 2010 and named Laura Cogan as editor-in-chief.[2]

Awards

Work from the magazine has received the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry Award and has been included in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading.

Novels

Boonville, by Robert Mailer Anderson was a "Zyzzyva First Novel", published in 2001 by the Creative Arts Book Company.

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gollark: (technically it also has some code to force it to respond to an instant-lose/instant-win situation)
gollark: It is funny that people keep losing to a fairly trivial piece of code which just decides how good a move is by playing 100 *entirely random games* starting from it and seeing how many it wins.
gollark: Okay, I am now decreasing my estimate of your programming competence.
gollark: I don't know if there's a general strategy. The main thing to exploit is that the AI can't really respond to two threats at once.

See also

References
  1. Edan Lepucki (April 21, 2014). "Best Coast: ZYZZYVA's 100th Issue". The Million. Retrieved November 1, 2015.
  2. Karp, Evan (May 12, 2011). "New faces at Zyzzyva: Laura Cogan, Oscar Villalon". San Francisco Chronicle.
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