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Dzanc Books

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Dzanc Books is a not-for-profit foundation with a three pronged method of promoting and publishing literary fiction. Co-founded by Steve Gillis (author and founder of 826 Michigan) and Dan Wickett (founder of the Emerging Writers Network), Dzanc Books will aid literary journals, develop educational programs which utilize literary fiction, and publish up to 20 book per year, including titles through its imprints- Black Lawrence Press , OV Books and Monkeybicycle .

More can be discovered about Dzanc Books at www.dzancbooks.org .

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We are looking for authors, readers, literary journal editors, university creative writing professors, and others interested in literary fiction.

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Dzanc Books Internships

Dzanc Books InternshipsIf you are interested in publishing, Dzanc Books has a great opportunity for you. Dzanc Books has established a year round internship program that provides ongoing unpaid worki...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:08:00 GMT

L.A. Times Reviews Best of the Web 2008

In today's daily book review, Chris Daley has mostly good things to say: "WITH growing mainstream acceptance -- and, more important, better writing -- online literature has started to come into its...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:36:00 GMT

More great reviews for Bob, or Man on Boat

More people have been saying nice things about the debut novel by Peter Markus, Bob, or Man on Boat!Justin Taylor wrote about it for Paste Magazine in last month's issue (Scarlet J. on the cover) wher...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:14:00 GMT

Best of the Web 2008 Contents Announced

Dzanc Books' Best of the Web 2008 anthology hits stores next Tuesday and can be ordered online, or pre-ordered at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or by your favorite store today! Ryan Call recently reviewed ...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:21:00 GMT

Making It All Worthwhile

Last night, at Shaman Drum Booksellers in Ann Arbor, MI, we (Steve Gillis and Dan Wickett) had the pleasure of attending a reading. The individuals reading last night were the fifth and grade class o...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:53:00 GMT

The Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Contest

Between 2008 and 2010, Dzanc Books and its imprints, OV Books and Black Lawrence Press will publish no less than 21 short story collections. This is a staggering number in an industry where many publi...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:54:00 GMT

The Dzanc Prize 2008

Dzanc Books is pleased to announce the 2008 Dzanc Prize.The Dzanc Prize provides monetary aid in the sum of $5,000, to a writer of literary fiction. All writers applying for the Dzanc Prize must have...
Posted by on Mon, 26 May 2008 10:15:00 GMT

Dzanc Books to Publish Dawn Raffel

Dzanc Books is proud to announce that it will publish a collection of stories by Dawn Raffel in early 2010, entitled Further Adventures in the Restless Universe. Dawn Raffel has previously published ...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:33:00 GMT

Tayari Jones Helps Out

Tayari Jones has set up an eBay auction to help out a mother/son combination in Dunbar Village that recently went through a truly horrifying ordeal.What Tayari has done, to keep things literary, after...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:36:00 GMT

A Little Help for a Literary Journal

Many of you may recall the article in a recent Poets & Writers about how the recent raise in U.S. Postal rates was going to hurt smaller magazines and literary journals - Dzanc Books has stepped in an...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:37:00 GMT