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Dzanc Books was founded in 2006 to advance great writing and champion those writers who don't fit neatly into the marketing niches of for-profit presses. As a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization, Dzanc Books not only publishes excellent books of literary fiction, but works in partnership with literary journals to advance their readership at every level. Dzanc is also fully committed to developing educational programs in the schools and has begun organizing many such workshops and Writers In Residency programs. The authors already signed by Dzanc are extraordinary, award winning talents, including Roy Kesey, Yannick Murphy, Peter Markus, Laura van den Berg, Dawn Raffel, and Jeff Parker. All Dzanc authors not only receive contracts and monetary compensation commensurate with the best literary houses, but the personal attention shown to each author by Dzanc - including reviews, book tours and intimate involvement in every step of the publishing process - clearly makes Dzanc unique.

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Previous Winners:

2009 Winner: Eugene Cross
2008 Winner: Kodi Scheer
2007 Winner: Laura van den Berg

In 2007, to further its mission of fostering literary excellence, community involvement, and education, Dzanc Books created the Dzanc Prize, which provides monetary aid in the sum of $5,000, to a writer of literary fiction. All writers applying for the Dzanc Prize must have a work-in-progress they can submit for review, and present the judges with a Community Service Program they can facilitate somewhere in the United States. Such programs may include anything deemed "educational" in relation to writing. Examples would include: working with HIV patients to help them write their stories; doing a series of workshops at a drop-in youth homeless center; running writing programs in inner-city schools; or working with older citizens looking to write their memoirs. All community programs under the Dzanc Prize must run for a full year.

The submissions for the Dzanc Prize are reviewed by a panel consisting of Steve Gillis, Dan Wickett, Steven Seighman, and Keith Taylor.

Any questions can be submitted to prize@dzancbooks.org.

GUIDELINES:

To apply for the Dzanc Prize, please send the following to prize@dzancbooks.org:

  • A Word document file of your work in progress.
  • A Word document of your Literary Community Service plan. This plan should be as complete possible, including sign-offs from personnel where you believe it will be necessary (for instance, if the LCS is to work in a retirement home, we'd like to know the specific retirement home and that you have approval to set up such a program).
  • A Word document file of your latest cv/resume.

UPDATE: The deadline for the Dzanc Prize has been extended to March 1, 2011. There is no fee to enter and the winner--based on a literary work in progress and a literary community service project that the author plans to run--receives $5,000 from Dzanc Books and the possible publication of their finished work. Please look at our past winners and realize we're looking for great work here, both in regard to the writing and the service, and also not necessarily hoping to repeat similar community services over and over.