Stephen Policoff Wins Dzanc Mid-Career Novel Award

May 20, 2013, Ann Arbor, MI—Dzanc Books is pleased to announce that Stephen Policoff is the winner of our 2012 mid-career novelist award.  Policoff’s manuscript, Come Away, was selected from nearly 100 submissions.  This collection will be published in October 2014.

Dzanc co-founder and  publisher, Steven Gillis said of the manuscript:  "Stephen Policoff’s Come Away is the sort of book that leaves you in awe of the way the universal subject of love and parenting and the complexities of human relationships can be handled here in such a new and inspiring way. By refusing to rely on pyrotechnics, though with just enough hint of magic realism and a post-modern narrative, Policoff more than ever burns onto the reader’s consciousness a full and new wonderful understanding of what it means to be completely vulnerable to and unconditionally  loving and exposed by the things closest to us. Dzanc is excited to have Policoff’s Come Away named as the winner of our mid-career novelist award and  look forward to publishing this amazing novel in October 2014."

ABOUT STEPHEN POLICOFF

Stephen Policoff's first novel, Beautiful Somewhere Else, won the James Jones Award and was published by Carroll & Graf in 2004.  His essay, "Music Today?" about his disabled daughter's experience in music therapy, won the Fish Short Memoir Award, and was published in Fish Anthology 2012 (West Cork University Press, Ireland).  It also appears in the current issue of the new parenting magazine, Kindling.  His essays and fiction have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including The Rumpus, Otis Nebula, Provincetown Arts, and Family Fun. He teaches writing in Global Liberal Studies at NYU, and lives in New York with his two daughters.

ABOUT DZANC BOOKS

Dzanc Books was created in 2006 to advance great writing and to impact communities nationally with our efforts to advance literary readership and our advocacy of creative writing workshops and readings. As a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization, Dzanc Books not only publishes 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 schools.

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Joshua R. Helms Wins Dzanc Poetry Collection Award

April 22, 2013, Ann Arbor, MI—Dzanc Books is pleased to announce that Joshua R. Helms is the winner of our 2012 poetry award.  Helms’ manuscript, Machines Like Us, was selected by contest judge, C. Dale Young, from more than 100 submissions.  This collection will be published in September 2014.

C. Dale Young notes:  "Machines Like Us is a dark and deeply obsessive book. It is almost impossible to forget the three primary characters in this collection after witnessing their twisted and repetitive attempts to connect, after witnessing the fact they cannot separate acts of love from acts of harm."

"I’m so very excited to have my first collection of poetry chosen by C. Dale Young and published by Dzanc,” Helms reacted.  “I have great respect and admiration for the books Dzanc produces and I’m beyond honored to be among the authors they publish. I’m extremely happy that my collection has found a home with such a wonderful press."

ABOUT JOSHUA R. HELMS

Joshua R. Helms lives in Tuscaloosa, where he’s an MFA candidate at the University of Alabama. His poems have appeared in Copper Nickel, DIAGRAM, Phoebe, and Sixth Finch, among others. Machines Likes Us is his first collection of poetry.

ABOUT C. DALE YOUNG

C. Dale Young is the author of three collections of poetry, the most recent being Torn (Four Way 2011).  A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, he practices medicine full-time, edits poetry for the New England Review, and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.

Recent Signings to the rEprint Series

In recent weeks we've had  the pleasure of signing up more authors and titles to our rEprint series--all of the below will appear in eBook form over the next few months:

Gerry Albarelli - Teacha! Stories from a Yeshiva

T.C. Boyle - Rock and Roll Heaven: a Trio of Uncollected Stories

Rikki Dcornet - Fan Maker's Inquisition

Mathias  Freese - The I Tetralogy

Mathias  Freese - Down to a Sunless Sea

Mathias Freese - This Mobius Strip

Mikhail  Iossel - Every Hunter Wants to Know: a Leningrad Life

David Jauss - Crimes of Passion

David Jauss - Black Maps

Mary LaChapelle - House of Heroes and Other Stories

Fred Leebron - Out West

Fred Leebron - In the Middle of All This

Fred Leebron - Six Figues

Jay Neugeboren - Listen Ruben Fontanez

Jay Neugeboren - Corky's Brother

Jay Neugeboren - Parenthesis: An Autobiographical Journey

Jay Neugeboren - Sam's Legacy

Jay Neugeboren - An Orphan's Tale

Jay Neugeboren - Before My Life Began

Jay Neugeboren - Poli: a Mexican Boy in Early Texas

Jay Neugeboren - Open Heart

Jay Neugeboren - Don't Worry About the Kids

Michael  Pearson - A Place That's Known

Michael Pearson - Imagined Places: Journeys Into Literary America

Michael Pearson - John McPhee

If you're an author with the eBook rights to one of your past works, please contact Dan Wickett at dan@dzancbooks.org and we'll see about adding your name and title to the list.

Dzanc Books to Publish Jac Jemc Again!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contacts:   Dan Wickett, Executive Director                  

                  dan@dzancbooks.org                                     

Dzanc Books to Publish Jac Jemc

February 8, 2013 - Ann Arbor, MI—Dzanc Books is proud to announce that it will once again publish a work of fiction by Jac Jemc.  We will publish Jac’s short story collection, A Different Bed Every Time, in October 2014. Having previously published her novel, My Only Wife, which was named to Best of 2012 lists by Shelf Unbound and Vol. I Brooklyn, we couldn’t be more excited to keep our publishing relationship ongoing.

Jac Jemc is the author of My Only Wife (Dzanc Books, 2012) and These Strangers She'd Invited In (Greying Ghost Press, 2011). She lives in Chicago where she's the poetry editor of decomP and a fiction web editor for Hobart. You can learn more at jacjemc.com.

She noted, “It was such an honor and a thrill to put out my first novel with Dzanc, and I couldn't be happier to be working with them again to release this collection of stories. My admiration and respect for the work Dzanc puts out and its mission only grows with time. It's a privilege to be a part of this family.”

“We loved being a part of bringing Jac’s words to the world with My Only Wife and were thrilled to find she had a full collection of stories she was ready to go with,” said Dan Wickett, Director of Dzanc. “It didn’t take us long to realize we wanted to be the publisher of this collection as well—Jac’s poetic style of writing is just as suited to the short form as it was the novel.”

Pushcart Prize Nominees From Dzanc Books

It's that time of year again and as the number of titles Dzanc Books publishes annually grows, it gets harder and harder to select the titles we have Pushcart  Prize nominations from. We'd like to once again thank all of the wonderful authors that entrusted us with their fantastic work this year and congratulate the following:

Eugene Cross - Rosaleen, If You Know What I Mean (from Fires of Our Choosing)

Josip Novakovich - Shopping for a Better Country (the title essay from his collection)

Jac Jemc - Chapter 4 from her novel, My Only Wife

Jennifer Spiegel - Goodbye, Madagascar (from The Freak Chronicles)

Josh Russell - Chapter5 from his novel, A True History of the Captivation, transport to Strange Lands, & Deliverance of Hannah Guttentag

George Singleton - Vaccination (from Stray Decorum)