Dzanc Books publishes innovative and award-winning literary fiction, including short story collections and novels by accomplished and award-winning writers such as Roy Kesey, Yannick Murphy, Peter Markus, Hesh Kestin, Kyle Minor, Michael Czyzniejewski, Suzanne Burns, Peter Selgin, Laura van den Berg, Robert Lopez, Dawn Raffel, Jeff Parker, Terese Svoboda, and Henning Koch.
Dzanc also publishes The Collagist, a monthly online literary journal launched; provides low-cost writing instruction through the innovative Dzanc Creative Writing Sessions; runs the Dzanc Writers-in-Residence Program; conducts the yearly Dzanc Prize, which recognizes a single writer for both literary excellence and community service, as well as an annual short story collection competition; and organizes the Disquiet International Literary Program, a writing conference held in Lisbon, Portugal.
If you have any questions or concerns, please email us at info@dzancbooks.org.
Novel or Non-Fiction
Dzanc Books is looking for literary fiction and non-fiction that takes chances and does so through great writing. It really is all about the writing to us.If you believe you have a book that meets what we are looking for, please feel free to submit a portion of your manuscript to us.
1) If submitting a novel (please no young adult fiction), or literary nonfiction, please send the first one or two chapters (no more than 35 pages).
2) Please note that we only accept short story collections through our contest, as detailed below.
3) Please note that due to an increased number of incoming manuscripts, it might take us up to five or six months to respond.
Thank you for your interest in publishing with Dzanc Books.