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Publish Date:
July 2008
ISBN: 0-9793123-4-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-9793123-4-2
Price: $18.00
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Dzanc
Books is excited to announce plans to publish
an annual The Best of the Web anthology
series starting in 2008. This print anthology
will compile the best fiction, poetry, and
nonfiction that online literary journals have
to offer in an eclectic collection in the manner
of other broad-ranging anthologies such as The
Pushcart Prize anthology, The O. Henry
Prize Stories, and Best American Short
Stories.
The Best of the Web anthology will be the first comprehensive print anthology
to represent the vast array of contemporary online literature on an annual basis,
bringing the world of web journals to a greater audience. Nathan Leslie, Fiction
Editor for The Pedestal Magazine, Editor-in-Chief of The Potomac,
and the author of five short story collections, and will serve as the series
editor. In addition, each year a guest editor will be selected by Nathan and
Dzanc's publishers, Dan Wickett and Steve Gillis. Nathan has sent emails to editors
of every conceivable online literary journal, asking for nominations of what
they consider their three best works by September 15, 2007. Nathan and the publishers
will also be scouring for exceptional writing on the web. Nathan Leslie will
answer additional questions from journal editors at Nathanlesliedzanc@yahoo.com.
"Though
publishing online provides us the opportunity
to present fiction free from economic imperative,
permitting us, our authors, and our readers
to relish in the experiment of expression,
one of our great regrets is forgoing the sensation
of binding it, printing it, holding the work
we proudly select in our hands. Then along comes
Dzanc Books, and this gift of a book, Best
of the Web, that feels, to us, like the
presentation of an award."
- Aaron Petrovich and Alex Rose, editors, Hotel St. George
"While reading this anthology, you may find yourself muttering, 'Where
did Dzanc find such brilliant fiction and non-fiction-y writing? Are they witches?'
I don't want to give away too much of the magic,
but I will say this ... yes, they are witches."
- Eric Spitznagel, web editor, Monkeybicycle
