DZANC BOOKS

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Steven Gillis (Chair), Dwayne Hayes, Jeff Parker, Vanessa Clarke, Keith Taylor, Ilene Schwartz

BOARD EMERITUS

Doug Wilson, James Rosenfeld, Peter Fayroian

NATIONAL COUNCIL

Fred Ramey, Jessica Stockton Bagnulo

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Dzanc Books is supported, in part, by grants from the Community Foundation of SE Michigan, specifically targeted grants from John and Jean Wickett, the Meijer Foundation, and various individuals.

WELCOME TO DZANC BOOKS

Shortly after opening our doors in 2006, Dzanc Books was hailed as the future of publishing by Publishers Weekly. A fully invested publishing house with print distribution through Consortium, and eBook distribution through Open Road Media, Dzanc Books is committed to not only publishing great works, but promoting our authors through print and online media, author tours, and through audio/visual media. In our first few years, Dzanc authors have been reviewed everywhere both in print and online including the Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Believer, Time Out New York, NewPages, Bookslut, Mid-American Review, American Book Review, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Publishers Weekly, Rain Taxi, Elle Magazine, Vanity Fair and numerous others. With award winning authors such as Josip Novakovich, Laura van den Berg and Hesh Kestin, coupled with great emerging writers like Sean McGrady, Eugene Cross, and Jac Jemc, Dzanc is excited to present the best and the brightest authors writing today.

As of 2008, Dzanc has also formed imprint relationships with other established independent publishers. These publishers continue to run editorially as they did previously, however they now have the publicity and distribution support of Dzanc Books. Heading into 2014 these publishers include OV Books, Keyhole Books, Starcherone Books, Ellipsis Press, and Disquiet. These relationships have led to extraordinary works by authors such as Allison Amend, Tod Goldberg, James Morrison, Stacey Levine, Joshua Cohen and Alissa Nutting as well as a cutting edge anthology of 30 Writers Under 30. The titles publishing under the Disquiet imprint are works in translation or works written in English with a heavy foreign country aspect to them. Between Dzanc and our imprints we publish novels, short story collections, poetry collections, anthologies, works in translation, non-fiction, and chapbooks in both print and eBook form.

Dzanc also funds three literary journals: The Collagist, a monthly appearing online that contains fiction, poetry, essays, novel excerpts and book reviews; Monkeybicycle, an online journal of both fiction and poetry that features podcasts; and Absinthe: New European Writing, a bi-annual print journal of writing and art stemming from Europe.

As a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization, Dzanc Books is also fully committed to developing writing programs in the schools and community at large. Dzanc funds and has operated workshops and Writer-in-Residence programs in several cities, including Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and New York. Dzanc has also set up a low-cost writing instruction program for beginning and emerging writers by connecting them with accomplished authors through the innovative Dzanc Creative Writing Mentorships. Dzanc has organized the Disquiet International Literary Program, a writing conference held in Lisbon, Portugal. Dzanc creates internship opportunities for students looking to gain valuable experience in independent publishing. With a full vision for our future, both as publishers and as leaders in the community, Dzanc is excited about what we can do to continue bringing great books to wider audiences while inspiring generations of readers to come.

DZANC BOOKS

Neighbors of Nothing Jason Ockert

Dancing Lessons Olive Senior

When Blackness Was a Virtue Michael Grant Jaffe

The Brunist Day of Wrath Robert Coover

Byrd Kim Church

Not for Nothing Stephen Graham Jones

The Mayflies Sara Veglahn

Between Wrecks: Stories George Singleton

The Sea-Gods Herb John Domini

The Committee on Town Happiness Alan Michael Parker

The Festival of Earthly Delights Matt Dojny

The Fish and the Not Fish Peter Markus

In Bed One Night and Other Brief Encounters Robert Coover

NEIGHBORS OF NOTHINGJason Ockert

Neighbors of Nothing examines characters who find themselves searching for new identities in worlds they no longer recognize. In Piebald, parents assume the identity of their dead son; in Everyday Murders, the sole survivor of a violent crime attempts to confront an online entrepreneur who sells football-style serial killer jerseys. Through odd, compelling, and sometimes futile gestures, these characters struggle against guilt and grief and the seemingly endless stretch of days. Influenced by absurdism and the southern gothic, Neighbors of Nothing offers intelligent and heartrending insights into the complex human struggle to exist with purpose.

Beautiful stories, searching and generous. Ockert never ceases to astound.Junot Daz

Ockerts stories make me feel grateful to have eyeballsif you want to be surprised, expanded, devastated, delighted, then Neighbors of Nothing is what you should be reading. His plots are hair-raisingly original, his humor is feverish and dark, his language soars. And yet no matter what altitude of weird Ockert achieves here, his imaginary worlds are always populated by real people, characters who matter deeply to each other, and to their readers.Karen Russell

Jason Ockert is the author of Rabbit Punches and Neighbors of Nothing. His stories have appeared in many journals and anthologies, he was the recipient of the 2010 Dzanc Short Story Collection Contest, and was a nominee for the Shirley Jackson Short Fiction Award. He teaches creative writing at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina.

November 2013978-1-938604-47-8203 pages$14.95Short Story Collection

DANCING LESSONSOlive Senior

Her mothers death and her fathers madness leave G unloved and unwanted as a child. Her runaway marriage brings her children but not the fulfillment she yearns for. Years later, a hurricane destroys her Jamaican country house where she lives alone and she ends upunwillinglyin a ritzy retirement home in the city, placed there by her well-to-do but distant daughter.

As a novel it is compelling, its heroine unforgettable. . . . A simply wonderful read. The Globe and Mail

This novel is a jewel that promises the reader a lesson in dancing to the right tune. Jamaica Observer

Jamaican-born Olive Senior is a poet, fiction writer, journalist, and editor, and one of Canadas most internationally recognized and acclaimed authors. She won the inaugural Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1987 for her short story collection Summer Lightning and Other Stories and was a finalist for the Governor Generals Literary Award for her poetry collection Over the Roofs of the World.

November 2013978-1-938604-49-2299 pages$15.95Novel

WHEN BLACKNESS WAS A VIRTUEMichael Grant Jaffe

Jaffe captures the chaos of the protagonists sudden downturn in his personal life, dealing with an ex-wife who makes his life miserable, and trying to keep his children happy in the midst of it all. He finds release for his frustrations through the violence of his bookie job as he tries to make sense of whathappened to his life.

When Blackness Was a Virtue is Jaffes fourth novel. Hes also the author of Whirlwind, Skateaway and Dance Real Slow, which was adapted into the Twentieth Century Fox Film A Cool, Dry Place, featuring Vince Vaughn. In addition, Jaffe is a journalist who spent more than a decade on staff at Sports Illustrated. He received his M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia University. Currently, he lives in Ohio with his two daughters.

January 2014978-1-938604-50-8300 pages$15.95Novel

THE BRUNIST DAY OF WRATHRobert Coover

The Brunist Day of Wrath, Robert Coovers long-.awaited, massive sequel to his award-winning debut, is a committed and committing, awe-inspiring, humbling look at fundamentalisms of all sorts in a world where religion competes with money, common sense, despair, and reason; stranded in their midst is beauty, is art.

The sequel to Robert Coovers acclaimed first novel returns to the town of West Condon five years after the bloody conflict at the Brunist church camp. Many continue to cope with the after effects of the massacre, but others are receiving new revelations from the lost prophet Giordano Bruno, assembling at the site of the former camp to await the end of days. Exploring the psychologies of over 150 different characters, Coover offers the reader a panoptic view of American hypocrisy and the conviction-centered ideologies that make bloody conflict inevitable.

Robert Coover has published fourteen novels, three short story collections, and a collection of plays since The Origin of the Brunists received the The William Faulkner Foundation First Novel Award in 1966. At Brown University, where he has taught for over thirty years, he established the International Writers Project, a program that provides an annual fellowship and safe haven to endangered international writers who face harassment, imprisonment, and suppression of their work in their home countries. In 1990-91, he launched the worlds first hypertext fiction workshop, was one of the founders in 1999 of the Electronic Literature Organization, and in 2002 created CaveWriting, the first writing workshop in immersive virtual reality.

Michiko Kakuntaini of The New York Times has said Of all the postmodern writers, Robert Coover is probably the funniest and most malicious, mixing up broad social and political satire with vaudeville turns, lewd pratfalls, and clever word plays that make us rethink both the mechanics of the world and our relationship to it. Coover has also received awards from the Lannan Foundation, American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment of the Arts, and the Rea Lifetime Short Story Award.

March 2014978-1-938604-38-61000 pages$30.00 HardcoverNovel

BYRDKim Church

Byrd is a contemporary novel about a woman who bears and surrenders a son, her only child, without telling his father, little imagining how the secret will shape their lives. Through letters and spare, precisely observed vignettes, the book examines how a 33-year-old birth mother comes to make, and live with, the most difficult, intimate, and far-reaching of choices.

Kim Church lives in Raleigh,NC

March 2014978-1-938604-52-2228 pages$14.95Novel

NOT FOR NOTHINGStephen Graham Jones

The town is Stanton, Texas, population 3000; the private investigator is disgraced Midland homicide detective Nicholas Bruiseman, whos so down on his luck that hes forced to take a job as a live-in security guard for the towns lone storage facility. This is his new lifestarting over with nothing in the town he grew up in.

Stephen Graham Jones is the author of ten novels, three collections, and one novella. He is a full professor at The University of Colorado at Boulder, and in the low-residency program for University of California Riverside-Palm Desert. Stephen is forty-one, and married with children.

March 2014978-1-938604-53-9298 pages$15.95Novel

THE MAYFLIESSara Veglahn

Obsessed with bodies of water and haunted by a chorus of mysterious ladies, the unnamed protagonist desperately searches to find out what is real and what is a dream.A deep and vivid exploration of the passageway between life and death, The Mayflies is a lyrical and haunting look at loneliness, isolation, and what it truly means to move on.

Sara Veglahn is the author of the chapbooks Another Random Heart (Letter Machine Editions, 2009) and Closed Histories (Noemi Press, 2008). Her work has been published in various journals, including Conjunctions, Web Conjunctions, Fence, 1913: A Journal of Forms, Fairy Tale Review, Octopus, Tarpaulin Sky, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from UMass-Amherst and a PhD from the University of Denver, and has taught creative writing and literature at UMass-Amherst, the University of Denver, Regis University, and Naropa University. She currently lives in Denver, Colorado.

April 2014978-1-938103-77-3150 pages$14.95Novel

BETWEEN WRECKSGeorge Singleton

A trip to the salvage yard reveals infidelity and theft. An unlicensed entomologist celebrates his freedom with a compulsive liar while a manhunt ensues on the streets outside the bar. Packed with heart, honesty, and humor, Between Wrecks offers a glimpse into rural life from one of Americas keenest observers.

George Singleton is the author of two novels and five short story collections, including Stray Decorum. A 2013 SIBA Book Award Finalist, his work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, and Playboy. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he was awarded the Hillsdale Award for Fiction by The Fellowship of Southern Writers in 2011. He holds an MFA degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and currently teaches writing at South CarolinaGovernors School for the Arts & Humanities. Hecurrently lives in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

May 2014978-1-938103-79-9300 pages$15.95Short Story Collection

THE SEA-GODS HERBJohn Domini

A witty and sophisticated examination ofnontraditional storytelling in contemporary art and literature, The Sea- Gods Herb contains reviews and essays on some of the most interesting authors and artists of the last forty years. From William Gass and Thomas Pynchon to Brian Evenson and Steve Erickson, John Domini takes readers beyond that which is impossible to explain.

John Domini, a noted poet, essayist, and author, has had his nonfiction appear The New York Times and GQ, and his fiction has been featured in The Paris Review and Ploughshares. A former National Endowment for the Arts and Ingram-Merrill Foundation fellow, his novel Tomb of the Periphery was shortlisted for the London Book Festival prize and his Earthquake I.D. was runner- up for the Domenico Rea prize in Italy. He teaches at Iowa State University and makes his home in Des Moines.

April 2014978-1-938103-78-0360 pages$15.95Essay Collection

THE COMMITTEE ON TOWN HAPPINESSAlan Michael Parker

A lyrical and funny look at democracy andbureaucracy, The Committee on Town Happiness consists of ninety-nine linked stories about disappearing townsfolk. Hot air balloons are launched to search for the missing; galas proliferate; laws are imposed ad absurdum; and a guerrilla group forms.Absurdity and beauty reign: the Committee shapes the future of small-town America.

Alan Michael Parker is the author of two previousnovels and seven collections of poems. His awards include three Pushcart Prizes and the 2012 North Carolina Book Award. Douglas C. Houchens Professor of English at Davidson College, he also teaches in the Queens University M.F.A. program. He lives in Davidson, North Carolina, and can be reached on the web at www.amparker.com.

June 2014978-1-938103-80-3225 pages$14.95Novel

THE FESTIVAL OF EARTHLY DELIGHTSMatt Dojny

The Festival of Earthly Delights is a humorous bildungsroman set in the fictional Southeast Asian country of Puchai. The protagonist, Boyd Darrow, has recently moved there with his unfaithful girlfriend togive their relationship a second chance. Hisadventures, and misadventures, are relayed in a series of letters to a mysterious recipient.

Matt Dojny co-authored the illustrated essayImpossible Sightseeing in A Public Space, as well as contributing an illustrated piece to THE MOMENT: Wild, Poignant, Life- Changing Stories from 125 Writers and Artists Famous & Obscure. This is his first novel.

June 2014978-1-938103-83-4462 pages$16.95Novel

THE FISH AND THE NOT FISHPeter Markus

The world of the child is a world where things arent what they always seem to be. In The Fish and the Not Fish, Peter Markus brings us back inside that not-so-simple space and its slippery way of seeing and saying, a place that is primal and mythic in its remaking.

Peter Markus is the author of the novel, Bob, or Man on Boat (Dzanc Books) as well as three books of short-short fiction, the most recent of which is We Make Mud. In 2012 he was named a Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellow in Literary Arts. He lives in Trenton, MI.

July 2014978-1-938103-81-0150 pages$14.95Story and Novella Collection

IN BED ONE NIGHT AND OTHER BRIEF ENCOUNTERSRobert Coover

In Robert Coovers latest collection of short stories, we explore worlds where time is dangerously out of control. Worlds that unravel like films within films within films. Worlds obsessed with the temporary.Ultimately, we explore worlds that are exactly like our own. Features new stories and several that have recently appeared in Playboy, Harpers, and The New Yorker.

Robert Coover has published fourteen novels, three short story collections, and a collection of plays since The Origin of the Brunists received the The William Faulkner Foundation First Novel Award in 1966. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harpers, and Playboy amongst other publications.

June 2014978-1-938103-82-7250 pages$15.95Short Story Collection

DISQUIET

The True Actor Jacinto Lucas Pires

The Gifts of the State and Other Stories Adam Klein

Sankya Zakhar Prilepin

Friday Was the Bomb Nathan Deuel

THE TRUE ACTORJacinto Lucas PiresTranslated by Jaime Braz and Dean Thomas Ellis

The favored prostitute of Lisbons rich and powerful has been found dead amid austerity protests in Portugal, and down-on-his-luck actor Americo Abril, who has just won the role of a lifetime playing Paul Giamatti in the avant-garde film Being Paul Giamatti, is the prime suspect. Abril seeks the real killer, and he grapples with what it means to be Paul Giamatti. Confounded by the role he plays in the film and the roles that he plays in real lifeweary dad, blocked artist, henpecked husband, miserable lover, wanted manAbril struggles to hold together himself, his family, and his country. The True Actor, the English debut by award-winning Portuguese author Jacinto Lucas Pires, manages both a postmodern boondoggle and a touching story of identity and love and loss in austerity-era Portugal.

The True Actor is a true pleasurewise and funny with a subtle gravity and a wild hallucinatory streak. It brilliantly examines the state of a nation through one mans state of mind. Jacinto Lucas Pires is a powerful voice in modern fiction, charming, fearless, flourishing at the crossroads of the playful and the dire. Sam Lipsyte, author of The Fun Parts and The Ask Politically conscious, cinematic, and everything else that is characteristic of the literature of Lucas Pires, all absorbed into and shaken out in a game of conscience in which he holds all the cards. And this book is his royal flush. TimeOut Lisbon

Jacinto Lucas Pires was born in Porto in 1974 and now lives in Lisbon. He is a writer, playwright, director, musician, and soccer aficionado. The True Actor won the 2013 Domingos da Silva Teixeira Distinguished Literature Award for the best book published in Portugal in the past two years. Pires won the prestigious Prmio EuropaDavid Mouro-Ferreira (Bari University, Italy/Instituto Cames, Portugal) in 2008. He plays with the band Os Quais. Several translations of his short prose recently appeared in an issue of The St. Petersburg Review translated by Jaime Braz and Dean Thomas Ellis.

November 2013978-1-938604-48-5153 pages$14.95Novel

GIFTS OF THE STATE AND OTHER STORIES: NEW WRITING FROM AFGHANISTANEdited by Adam Klein

The Gifts of the State and Other Stories: New Writing from Afghanistan radically reshapes our idea of Afghanistan as a place of unquestioning religiosity, brutal sexism, and anti-American and Russian resistance. Rather, employing stark naturalism and surrealistic and genre elements, these writers bravely depict Western-styled women in former Russian apartments and men obsessed with fantasies based on Mickey Spillane novels.

Though it is set in a place we think we know (Afghanistan), this continuously startling and often very moving book opens up a new country, a fresh and diverse landscape of human striving and disappointment. With grace, melancholy and wit, it describes the joys and sadnesses of ordinary life obscured by the last decade of shrill headlines. Everyone should read it.-Pankaj Mishra

Very little of what is written in English can describe the grip of Afghanistans normal emergency as can these beautiful, remarkable stories. They are heartbreaking and violent tales, excerpts from the minds of orphans who mourn not so much mere parents as ancestry itself the ancestry of history and wisdom and there is rarely any redemption to the grief save only the lyricism of storytelling. But this lyricism is rich, one that brings into fluid English the poignant harmonies of other literatures and tongues, and it carries with it a faith greater than those of warring forces. Rana Dasgupta, author of Tokyo Canceled and Solo

Adam Klein is the author of story collection, The Medicine Burns, the novel, Tiny Ladies, the artist monograph, Jerome: After the Pageant. His work has appeared in Bomb, The New York Times At War Blog, The Huffington Post. He is the singer/ songwriter for the band, The Size Queens, which has been featured on The T.J. Eckleburg Review, Ninth Letter and Electric Literature blog sites. He has lived in Kabul, Bangalore, San Francisco and New York.

December 2013978-1-938604-55-3161 pages$14.95Short Story Collection

SANKYAZakhar Prilepin

Sankya is an examination of the elements ofrebellion and protest. The novel, drawing on Prilepins own experiences, follows Sasha (whose grandmother calls him Sankya), a member of an extremist revolutionary group, as he tests the elemental force of the protest movement in Russia and in himself.

Zakhar Prilepin, born near Ryazan in 1975, lives in Nizhny Novgorod where he is the regional editor of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta. Prilepin had a varied life before dedicating himself to writing, spending time as a student, as a laborer, as a journalist and as a soldier, serving with the Special Forces in Chechnya. More recently Prilepin has come to the public attention not only as one of the bestwriters of his generation, but as a committed, and often controversial, political activist on behalf of the Other Russia coalition. His website is one of the most popular authors sites in Russia. Prilepins combination of lucid prose and social consciousness has made him one of the most popular and acclaimed writers in Russia today and drawn comparisons with the Russian classics.

April 2014978-1-938604-51-5200 pages$14.95Novel, translated from Russian

FRIDAY WAS THE BOMB: FIVE YEARS IN THE MIDDLE EASTNathan Deuel

An Americans memoir of life in the Middle East. This collection will, like perhaps no other book before, give flesh and blood to life on the edge of everything we all hold near and dear. Excerpts have appeared in The New York Times, GQ, The Paris Review, Salon, Slate, The Awl, and Los Angeles Review of Books.

Nathan Deuel contributed essays, fiction, andcriticism to The New York Times, The New Republic, Financial Times, GQ, and The Paris Review, among others. In 2013, he was named first runner-up in Ploughshares annual Emerging Writer contest. Previously, he was an editor at Rolling Stone and The Village Voice. His wife, Kelly McEvers, is NPRs Beirut bureau chief. www.nathandeuel.com.

May 2014978-1-938604-90-4138 pages$14.95Memoir/Essay Collection

THE DZANC WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM

Since 2006, the Dzanc Writer-in-Residence Program has been committed to increasing literacy in public school students in Michigan and beyond. During each school year, Dzanc places a professional author with an individual school or classroom, allowing them to return each week to build a relationship with students and develop their potential as fiction writers and poets. In each of the past several years, we have collectively tutored over one hundred students across several different schools. At the conclusion of each program, we publish a hard copy anthology of the participating students work, distributing a complimentary edition of this book to every school library in the target school districts as well as providing each student participating in the program with a copy. As the only program of its kind in Michigan that does not charge students or schools, the Dzanc Writer-in-Residence Program offers a unique relationship for students to work directly with professional writers, extending a one of a kind opportunity for the young writers of tomorrow. The chance for these students to improve their writing skills enhances not only their creative talents but their overall communication skills in all arenas. It is our firm belief that continuing to develop and expand these relationships with the students and the schools is a key component in developing great literary and writing programs.

PARTICIPATING SChOOLS AND AUThORS 2013-2014Kathy Wickett Memorial DWIRP at The Ann Arbor Open School (Ann Arbor, MI): Scott Beal 2012-2013Kathy Wickett Memorial DWIRP at The Ann Arbor Open School (Ann Arbor, MI): Scott Beal 2011-2012Kathy Wickett Memorial DWIRP at The Ann Arbor Open School (Ann Arbor, MI): Scott BealAnn Arbor Community School (Ann Arbor, MI): Jeff Kass 2010 - 2011Kathy Wickett Memorial DWIRP at The Ann Arbor Open School (Ann Arbor, MI): Scott Beal 2009 - 2010The Ann Arbor Open School (Ann Arbor, MI): Scott BealThurston Elementary School (Ann Arbor, MI): Matt Bell

2008 - 2009Community High School (Ann Arbor, MI): Jeff KassThurston Elementary School (Ann Arbor, MI): Matt BellHigh School of Telecommunication and Technology (Brooklyn, NY): Diane Goettel 2007 - 2008The Ann Arbor Open School (Ann Arbor, MI): Scott BealHigh School of Telecommunication and Technology (Brooklyn, NY): Diane GoettelYpsilanti High School (Ypsilanti, MI): Barry Graham 2006-2007Community High School (Ann Arbor, MI): Paul Toth

THE DZANC BOOKS REPRINT SERIES

The Dzanc Books rEprint Series is dedicated to publishing great works of contemporary literature that are deserving and clearly will benefit from having their work appear in electronic form. Our efforts include works that have recently gone out of print, books in print that have yet to be converted to e-form, as well as titles where the author holds the eBook rights and is looking for a publishing partner for the electronic version of their book. These works are available by Dzanc to the reading public in the form of eBooks compatible with all currently available eBook platforms, distributed both directly from Dzanc and through eBook resellers. This series originates out of a belief that many of these titles did not have the opportunity to reach their fullest potential audiences in the time of their original publication, and that a second chance for achieving a wider readership is long overdue. By bringing them back into print in widely-available electronic formats, Dzanc hopes to restart the critical conversations around these books, and to get them into the hands of the enthusiastic readers they each deserve. Just as the eBook revolution has put an always-connected bookstore in the hands of every participating reader, we believe that our rEprint series is an important and innovative part of ensuring that bookstores virtual shelves are stocked with beautiful editions of these titles, all among the very best books of the preceding decades. The list of titles available grows weekly and includes multiple titles each by J. Robert Lennon, Michael Martone, Merrill Joan Gerber, Stephen Dixon, and Stephen Graham Jones, among many others. New forthcoming titles are being added weekly, and a full list of upcoming titles can be found on our website. Dzancs current eBook titles are available at our website, and are distributed by Open Road Media, which makes them available through all standard retail outlets, including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other eBooksellers.

THE DZANC CREATIVE WRITING MENTORSHIPS

The Dzanc Creative Writing Mentorships is an online program designed to allow writers to work one-on-one with published authors and editors to shape their short story, novel, poem, or essay. Mentoring authors will read the work, after which they will provide a written critique to the student. Sessions are conducted by email, and are available in blocks of one, two, or four hours, with longer sessions being less expensive per hour than shorter ones. This program is being offered at an extremely low rate, thanks to the generosity of our mentors, all of whom are volunteers. Many of our mentors do similar work as freelancers and charge much greater rates than are being offered here, and other workshops and writing programs charge a lump sum of several hundred dollars up front. Not only does the DCWM allow you to control and target your expenses, but 100% of the money brought in by Dzanc by our DCWM goes to supporting our Writer-in-Residence programs that we offer free to students in elementary and secondary schools across the country. The list of authors available for selection as a mentor includes many editors, award-winning, published novelists, short story writers, flash fiction writers, poets, and non-fiction writers.

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