Featured Mentor: Andy Plattner

We are excited to announce our featured mentor of the week: Andy Plattner! Andy has published six books and has a forthcoming work, Stymie, a novel in stories, scheduled to be published in the spring of 2025. His fiction has appeared recently in Swing, Tampa Review, Litbreak, New World Writing Quarterly, Ponder Review and The Southern Review. His novel, Offerings from a Rust Belt Jockey, won Dzanc's inaugural Mid-Career Prize in novel writing and it also was given the Dr Tony Ryan Award for the best book on thoroughbred racing (2014). He lives in Atlanta.  

Andy has high praise for the mentorship program, saying, “Any time I can work with developing writers, it’s a great experience for me and I certainly hope the students/mentees have a similar reaction. I applaud Dzanc’s initiative and hope it will produce meaningful results for all involved.”

As far as the last book he read and loved, he couldn’t choose between Ways to Disappear by Victoria Lancelotta and Ham and Rye by Charles Bukowski. While the first is a collection of short fiction released earlier this spring and the latter a semi-autobiography published 40 years ago, Andy called them both “unique, compelling books that affect the way I look at writing.”

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Click here to purchase Andy’s award-winning novel, Offerings From a Rust Belt Jockey.