We are excited to announce our featured mentor of the week: Catherine Browder! A fiction writer and playwright, Catherine Browder has seen her work presented regionally and in NYC. She's published stories in many great literary journals and six collections of stories/novellas and solo works, as well as a feuillet. She celebrated the publication of her first novel, The Manning Girl in November, 2023.

It’s been our immense pleasure to read such talented entries this year, and we had a deeply difficult time choosing between them. Below are our short- and longlist honorees for the Short Story Collection Prize.

Dzanc Books is pleased to announce the winner of the 2023 Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize: Lost in the Forest of Mechanical Birds by Christian Moody. In addition to publication by Dzanc in Spring 2025, the prize also comes with a $2,500 advance.

Dzanc Books is pleased to announce the winner of this year’s Dzanc Books Prize for Fiction: The Moveables by Sarah Yahm. It was selected from a pool of hundreds of manuscripts and eventually judged by three celebrated Dzanc Books authors: Mark Dunn (We Five, Ella Minnow Pea), Julie Ann Stewart (Water and Blood), and Alan Grostephan (The Banana Wars), winner of last year’s Prize for Fiction.

It’s been our immense pleasure to read such talented entries this year, and we had a deeply difficult time choosing between them. Below are our short- and longlist honorees.

We are excited to announce our featured mentor of the week: John Holman! John is the author of Squabble and Other Stories, Luminous Mysteries, a novel, and Triangle Ray, which was published by Dzanc in 2016. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Oxford American, Mississippi Review, Fiction, Terminus, and other journals.

Tulsi Gurung arrives in Pennsylvania on a day so impossibly damp and gray he wonders if he’s landed on the underside of the world. He is sixteen and brimming with wonder and fear. Born and raised in Refugee Camp Goldhap, Tulsi is technically a refugee from Bhutan, a land he’s never set eyes on.

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.

We are excited to announce our featured mentor of the week: Julie Ann Stewart! Julie earned an MFA from Spalding University and has published stories in Good River Review, Litro Magazine, PoemMemoirStory and Punch Drunk Press. Her story collection Water and Blood was published by Dzanc Books in April 2022 and was the winner the Dzanc Short Story Award.

We are excited to announce our featured mentor of the week: Russell Rowland! Russell is the author of five novels, the last of which, Cold Country, was published by Dzanc in 2019, and received a very nice review in the Wall Street Journal.

We are excited to announce our featured mentor of the week: Lindsey Drager! Lindsey Drager is the author of three Dzanc novels, two of which have been translated into Spanish and Italian. The recipient of a 2020 NEA Fellowship and the 2022 Bard Fiction Prize, she is the fiction editor of West Branch and an assistant professor at the University of Utah.

A poignant and powerful literary debut following the breakup of a Pakistani family in the face of climate disaster, and their indefatigable search for stability, love, and belonging.

We are excited to announce our featured mentor of the week: Mark Dunn! Mark is the author of twenty published plays and a dozen eclectic works of book-length fiction and non-fiction, including the award-winning classic Ella Minnow Pea, published in a commemorative illustrated edition by Dzanc Books in 2023.

We are excited to announce our featured mentor of the week: Nina Shope! Nina is the author of Hangings: Three Novellas, published by Starcherone Books and Asylum, winner of the 2020 Dzanc Fiction Prize. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Conjunctions, Quarter After Eight, Fourteen Hills, 3rd Bed, Open City, Sleeping Fish, Salt Hill, and elsewhere.

Ann Arbor (October 2, 2023) – Dzanc Books is thrilled to announce a new publishing partnership with Graver Goods Press, a groundbreaking imprint founded by editors Bret Gladstone and Daniel Wallace.

We’re so honored that Dzanc Books is one of the recipients of the MACC Operational Support Grant! Thank you very much to The Michigan Arts and Cultural Council and that National Endowment of Arts for your generous support, we are extremely grateful.

We are excited to announce our featured mentor of the week: Kristel Emma Buckley! Kristel is an editor, publicist and former publisher from the Big Smoke. Most recently, she co-edited the acclaimed anthology, Peach Pit. She is more than happy to talk your ear off about the unfaithful representation of women in history, and her passion is a more equitable, inclusive future for all stories from all voices. She lives in the UK.

We are excited to announce our featured mentor of the week: John Domini! John has published four novels and three books of stories, as well as a memoir, a selection of criticism, and a poetry chapbook. The latest is his memoir, The Archeology of a Good Ragù. 2021.

We are excited to announce our featured mentor of the week: Blair Austin! A former correctional librarian, Blair was born in Michigan and attended the Helen Zell Writers’ Program, where the seed novel for Dioramas won a Hopwood Award. Dioramas is his first novel.

A stunning anthology of fierce and dangerous women, featuring stories from Lauren Groff, Deesha Philyaw, K-Ming Chang, and thirteen other award-winning and bestselling authors.