Who wants to win some poetry/prose prizes!?!?! Our friends at Black Lawrence Press have sent us a couple of contest reminders from Dzanc books. Check it out!
The Dzanc Short Story Collection Contest
Dzanc Books is a publisher doing everything it can to preserve and push the short story form. In 2008 and 2009, Dzanc published seven full collections, as well as another eight between its imprints during that span. Three of these collections were named to the Kansas City Star's top ten story collections of 2008. Last year Dzanc held its first Short Story Collection Contest and David Galef's My Date With Neanderthal Woman was selected the winner out of hundreds of entries.
Having received many fantastic manuscripts last year, Dzanc has elected to run another Short Story Collection Contest this year, and the winning manuscript will receive a publishing contract with a $1,000 advance, and see the collection published in late Spring/early Summer 2012.
Entry to the Dzanc SSC Contest will require a $20 reading fee, and a full manuscript sent via email to ssc@dzancbooks.org. The entry fee can be made either via check made out to Dzanc Books, mailed to 1334 Woodbourne St., Westland, MI 48186 or via paypal by clicking on the button at the following link. The contest deadline is December 31, 2009.
http://www.dzancbooks.org/submissions.html
Questions? Send an email to info@dzancbooks.org.
The Dzanc Prize
Instituted in 2007, to further its mission of fostering literary excellence, community involvement, and education, Dzanc Books created the Dzanc Prize, which provides monetary aid in the sum of $5,000, to a writer of literary fiction. All writers applying for the Dzanc Prize must have a work-in-progress they can submit for review, and present the judges with a Community Service Program they can facilitate somewhere in the United States. Such programs may include anything deemed "educational" in relation to writing. Examples would include: working with HIV patients to help them write their stories; doing a series of workshops at a drop-in youth homeless center; running writing programs in inner-city schools; or working with older citizens looking to write their memoirs. All community programs under the Dzanc Prize must run for a full year. They must truly serve a literary community in need.
The submissions for the Dzanc Prize are reviewed by, and the prize will be awarded by, a panel of Steve Gillis, Dan Wickett, and Steven Seighman. All writers, including friends and associates of the panel, are eligible for the prize. The integrity and objectivity of Dzanc Books will not be compromised and, given our vast connections to so many great writers, exclusion of any kind would be impossible. The 2009 winner will be notified in January 2010.
Any questions can be submitted to prize@dzancbooks.org.
Guidelines
Those submitting should send to prize@dzancbooks.org, the following:
* an MS Doc file of their work in progress (25 to 50 pages)
* an MS Doc file of their Literary Community Service - this plan should be in as great detail as they can provide, including sign-offs from personnel where they believe it will be necessary (for instance, if the LCS is to work in a retirement home - we'd like to know the specific retirement home and that they have somebody's approval to set up such a program)
* an MS Doc file of their latest cv/resume
The deadline for this prize is November 01, 2009.