Zach Wyner
Zach Wyner is a writer and educator who facilitates writing workshops with incarcerated youth and adults in the San Francisco Bay Area for The Beat Within. His novel, What We Never Had, was published by Los Angeles-based Rare Bird Books. He is a contributor to The Write Launch, Tikkun, BarBar, The Good Men Project, You Might Need To Hear This, Your Impossible Voice and Atticus Review, among others. Zach received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco and lives in El Cerrito with his wife and children.
Practicing Care In A Broken World
I was upstairs in the bedroom/office having just begun a writing coaching session with my last online student of the day when I heard the doorbell ring. My son’s feet met the floor with a thud and pounded their way from the living room couch to the front door…
Essay
Issue 84, June 2024
Issues Archive
The Vanishing Point
Evan Reverie removes his Guiding Light™ earbud. It slips through his fingers and hits the cement floor with a crack. His stomach plummets. Despite having had it for a few years now, he still has a long way to go before it’s paid off.
He reaches down in the dark, his fingertips searching the cold cement until he feels the smooth, plastic-coated lithium bubble up from the floor. He caresses it, inspecting its surface, finds it intact and sighs in relief.
He reaches down in the dark, his fingertips searching the cold cement until he feels the smooth, plastic-coated lithium bubble up from the floor. He caresses it, inspecting its surface, finds it intact and sighs in relief.
Novel Excerpts
Issue 75, July 2023
Issues Archive
Zach Wyner
Zach Wyner is a writer and educator who facilitates writing workshops with incarcerated youth and adults in the San Francisco Bay Area for The Beat Within. His novel, What We Never Had, was published by Los Angeles-based Rare Bird Books. He is a contributor to The Write Launch, Tikkun, BarBar, The Good Men Project, You Might Need To Hear This, Your Impossible Voice and Atticus Review, among others. Zach received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco and lives in El Cerrito with his wife and children.
Practicing Care In A Broken World
I was upstairs in the bedroom/office having just begun a writing coaching session with my last online student of the day when I heard the doorbell ring. My son’s feet met the floor with a thud and pounded their way from the living room couch to the front door…
Essay
Issue 84, June 2024
Issues Archive
The Vanishing Point
Evan Reverie removes his Guiding Light™ earbud. It slips through his fingers and hits the cement floor with a crack. His stomach plummets. Despite having had it for a few years now, he still has a long way to go before it’s paid off.
He reaches down in the dark, his fingertips searching the cold cement until he feels the smooth, plastic-coated lithium bubble up from the floor. He caresses it, inspecting its surface, finds it intact and sighs in relief.
He reaches down in the dark, his fingertips searching the cold cement until he feels the smooth, plastic-coated lithium bubble up from the floor. He caresses it, inspecting its surface, finds it intact and sighs in relief.
Novel Excerpts
Issue 75, July 2023
Issues Archive