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Small Press Spotlight: DZANC Books
Apr. 24th, 2021 04:22 pmWho are they?
In their own words: "Dzanc Books was created in 2006 to advance great writing and to impact communities nationally with our efforts to promote literary readership and advocacy of creative writing workshops and readings offered across the country."
Dzanc books is a Michigan-based non-profit organization that, on top of publishing fiction and non-fiction, runs literary programs and contests, and runs the literary magazines Unsaid and The Collagist. They also have an imprint that focuses on reprinting old books. They publish literary fiction, and are really good about publishing ebooks, which not all independent publishers are.
Website and Store
The website is very stylish! It's easy to navigate and has appealing pictures of their covers that show the title, author, and price when you hover over them.
They sell hard copies and ebooks (I can't be bothered to verify if there are books available in one form and not another), and as mentioned above, they have a very good ebook selection. They also have the 'Ebook Book Club' where, for $5/mo you get an ebook a month, or access to their entire ebook collection for $100..
Have I heard of/read any of their books?
I read The Archive of Alternate Endings by Lindsay Draeger earlier this year! They also have a book by Zakhar Prilepin- haven't heard of the book, but I've heard of Prilepin and he's, uh...pretty pro-the annexation of Crimea. Other than that, not really. I do have a list now of books I'd like to check out!
Anything else?
There was a controversy in 2019 over a book, The Siege of Tel Aviv, being Islamophobic. The book's publication was cancelled after. Aside from that, I've only heard good things about Dzanc.
Also, the pronunciation is apparently 'duh-zaank' or 'duh-zaynk,' which I would not have guessed. I've been pronouncing it 'dzaank'.
In their own words: "Dzanc Books was created in 2006 to advance great writing and to impact communities nationally with our efforts to promote literary readership and advocacy of creative writing workshops and readings offered across the country."
Dzanc books is a Michigan-based non-profit organization that, on top of publishing fiction and non-fiction, runs literary programs and contests, and runs the literary magazines Unsaid and The Collagist. They also have an imprint that focuses on reprinting old books. They publish literary fiction, and are really good about publishing ebooks, which not all independent publishers are.
Website and Store
The website is very stylish! It's easy to navigate and has appealing pictures of their covers that show the title, author, and price when you hover over them.
They sell hard copies and ebooks (I can't be bothered to verify if there are books available in one form and not another), and as mentioned above, they have a very good ebook selection. They also have the 'Ebook Book Club' where, for $5/mo you get an ebook a month, or access to their entire ebook collection for $100..
Have I heard of/read any of their books?
I read The Archive of Alternate Endings by Lindsay Draeger earlier this year! They also have a book by Zakhar Prilepin- haven't heard of the book, but I've heard of Prilepin and he's, uh...pretty pro-the annexation of Crimea. Other than that, not really. I do have a list now of books I'd like to check out!
Anything else?
There was a controversy in 2019 over a book, The Siege of Tel Aviv, being Islamophobic. The book's publication was cancelled after. Aside from that, I've only heard good things about Dzanc.
Also, the pronunciation is apparently 'duh-zaank' or 'duh-zaynk,' which I would not have guessed. I've been pronouncing it 'dzaank'.
