580 Split
Established: 1998
http://www.mills.edu/580Split

Type of Publisher:	Literary Magazine
Address:	Mills College PO Box 9982 Oakland, CA 94613-0982

Berkeley Fiction Review
Established: 1981
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bfr

Type of Publisher:	Literary Magazine
Address:	ASUC Publications Library, Univ. of CA 10 Eshleman Hall Berkeley, CA 94720

Burning Bush Publications
Established: 1996
http://www.bbbooks.com

Mission:
We publish books for self-discovery and social change, highlighting authors whose works have been overlooked by publishing conglomerates. We publish an ezine (http://www.bbbooks.com/ezine.html), highlighting the writing of students and emerging writers. BBP offers resources for writers, such as calls for writing and classes, plus an annual conference.

Type of Publisher:	Literary Press
Address:	PO Box 9636 Oakland, CA 94613-0636
Phone:	510-482-9996
Contact:	Abby Bogomolny , Executive Director
Contact Email:	editor@bbbooks.com
Categories:	African American,Asian American,Fiction,Gay/lesbian/bisexual,Environment,Youth,Women,Latin American (U.S.),Native American,Nonfiction/Essay,Poetry,Race and Ethnicity,Religion and Spirituality,Seniors/Aging

Carve Magazine
Established: 2000
http://www.carvezine.com

Type of Publisher:	On-Line Publisher/Press
Address:	c/o Mild Horse Press PO Box 72231 Davis, CA 95617

Chatoyant
Established: 1997
http://www.chatoyant.com

Mission:
Chatoyant publishes beautiful short-run books of art and literature.

History:
We are a new small press hoping to make a contribution to the world of art and literature.

Type of Publisher:	Literary Press
Address:	PO Box 832 Aptos, CA 95001
Contact Email:	contact@chatoyant.com

Five Fingers Review
Established: 1984

Type of Publisher:	Magazine/Press
Address:	PO Box 4 San Leandro, CA 94577-0100

Haight Ashbury Literary Journal
Established: 1980
http://www.haightashbury.org/poetry.html

Mission:
To publish multi-cultural, socially conscious and self-expressive poetry and fiction in a 16-page tabloid format. It includes work on homelessness, prison, and many women writers.

History:
It was started by a diverse group of editors to publish Haight Ashbury neghborhood writers. It expanded to include writers from other locales. In the nineties, we produced an anthology entitled This Far Together ($15.00).

Type of Publisher:	Literary Magazine
Address:	558 Joost Avenue San Francisco, CA 94127
Contact:	Alice Rogoff, Indigo Hotchkiss, Conyus , Editors
Categories:	Fiction,Poetry,Regional literature
Regions:	West
Price:	$6/2issues; $12/4 issues; $35/ all future and 3 past
Frequency:	2/year

Iota Press

Established: 2005
http://www.iotapress.com/index.html

Type of Publisher: Literary & graphic works on letterpress. Broadsides, chapbooks & experiments.

Address: 925-C Gravenstein Hwy South
Sebastopol, CA 95472

Contact: Eric Johnson:  <iota.sonic.net>  or:  823-6152

Kelsey Street Press

Established: 1975
http://www.kelseyst.com

Type of Publisher:	Literary Press
Address:	50 Northgate Ave Berkeley, CA 94705

Konocti Books
Established: 1973

Mission:
To publish poetry by relative unknowns.

History:
presently inactive (considering no new titles)

Type of Publisher:	Literary Press
Address:	23311 County Road #88 Winters, CA 95694
Phone:	530-662-3364
Contact:	Noel Pattie , Publisher
Contact Email:	nrpeattie@earthlink.net
Categories:	Poetry

Left Curve Publications
Established: 1974
http://www.leftcurve.org

Type of Publisher:	Literary Magazine
Address:	PO Box 472 Oakland, CA 94604

Manic D Press
Established: 1984
http://www.manicdpress.com/

Type of Publisher:	Literary Press
Address:	PO Box 410804 San Francisco, CA 9414

Memoir (and)

www.memoirjournal.com

Established: 2006

Type of Publisher: Literary Magazine

Address: PO Box 1398, Sausalito, CA 94966-1398

Contact: admin@memoirjournal.com

Mission: Memoir (and) is a nonprofit literary journal dedicated to memoir in all forms, from the traditional to the experimental. The editors strive with each issue to include a selection of prose, poetry, narrative photography and graphic memoirs. They particularly invite submissions that push traditional boundaries of form and content in their exploration of the representation of self; they also just love a memoir well-told.

Omnidawn Publishing
Established: 1999
http://omnidawn.com

Type of Publisher:	Literary Press
Address:	1632 Elm Ave. Richmond, CA 94085-1614

The Owl Press
Established: 1998
http://www.theowlpress.com

Type of Publisher:	Literary Press
Address:	P.O. Box 126 Woodacre, CA 94973

POESY Magazine
http://www.poesy.org

Type of Publisher:	Literary Magazine
Address:	P.O. Box 7823 Santa Cruz, CA 95061

The Post-Apollo Press
Established: 1982
http://www.dnai.com/~tpapress

Mission:
To publish literary works and translations primarily by women authors. A special focus has been to bring Middle Eastern poets, writers, and idea to American readers.

History:
Since 1982, over the course of 2 decades, Post-Apollo has become an influential publisher of experimental poetry.

Type of Publisher:	Literary Press
Address:	35 Marie Street Sausalito, CA 94965
Phone:	415-332-1458
Fax:	415-332-1458
Contact:	Simone Fahal , Publisher
Contact Email:	tpapress@dnai.com
Categories:	Experimental,Poetry,Translations,Women

Reed Magazine
Established: 1946
http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/reed.htm

Type of Publisher:	Literary Magazine
Address:	SJSU English Department San Jose, CA 95192-0090

Sinister Wisdom
Established: 1976
http://www.sinisterwisdom.org

Type of Publisher:	Literary Magazine
Address:	PO Box 3252 Berkeley, CA 94703

Sixteen Rivers Press
Established: 1999
http://www.sixteenrivers.com

Type of Publisher:	Literary Press
Address:	P.O. Box 640663 San Francisco, CA 94164-0663

Transfer Magazine
Established: 1956
http://www.transfermag.edu

Type of Publisher:	Literary Magazine
Address:	CW Dept., SFSU 1600 Holloway Avenue San Francisco, CA 94132

Two Lines
Established: 1994
http://www.twolines.com/

Type of Publisher:	Literary Magazine
Address:	A Journal of Translation 35 Stillman Street, Suite 201 San Francisco, CA 94107

Woman Poet

Type of Publisher:	Literary Magazine
Address:	Women-in-Literature, Inc. 601 Van Ness Avenue, Nr. 6 San Francisco, CA 94102

ZYZZYVA
Established: 1985
http://www.zyzzyva.org

Mission:
To serve West coast writers, artists and readers nationwide with,a triquarterly journal, with a reading series, a writer’s workshop, and with publication of first books of poetry and fiction.

History:
We have published four anthologies of work from our pages in our first 15 years, most recently Lucky Break: How I Became a Writer (Heinemann, 1999). We will publish our first novel n June 2000, and will launch a first book f poetry series in 2001,

Type of Publisher:	Literary Magazine
Address:	PO Box 590069 San Francisco, CA 94159-0069
Phone:	415-752-4393/800-462-1985
Fax:	415-752-4391
Contact:	Howard Junker , Editor
Contact Email:	editor@zyzzyva.org
Categories:	African American,Art,Asian American,Biography and Memoir,Experimental,Fiction,Gay/lesbian/bisexual,Humor,Native American,Nonfiction/Essay,Poetry,Regional literature,Translations,Travel,Women
Similar Publishers:	The New Yorker: wide range of interest, elegant and intelligent.
Regions:	West Coast
Price:	$11/issue
Frequency:	3/year