We are thrilled to join the illustrious group of presses and literary organizations who will receive a 2020 Amazon Literary Partnership Poetry Fund grant. Zephyr will publish four books with the funds by Polish, Vietnamese-Israeli, Korean, and Chinese poets. Sign up for our e-newsletter to get the announcement when each book comes out!

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Bei Dao’s memoirs in Blue House are stunning in their modesty, candour and startling clarity. As placid and yet as intense as his poetry, his anecdotes of colleagues, countries, cats, crows and the irrepressibility of expression (artistic and otherwise) mark him as one of the world’s greatest contemporary writers, something that he himself would unassumingly deny. [Full review]

Sometimes early titles still get attention!

We won! Zephyr was honored to receive the 2019 Small Press Publisher Award from AWP — the Association of Writers and Writing Programs — at the AWP conference in Portland in March. Thank you to AWP and to the judges for this recognition, and hats off to our fellow finalists, Green Writers Press and Split Lip Press.