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Absinthe: New European Writing to Join Dzanc Books

We have just sent out the following Press Release:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

                                                            

                               

 

Absinthe: New European Writing Joins Dzanc Books

 

November 18, 2009 - Ann Arbor, MI— In an effort to further our mission for bringing great writing to a broader audience, Dzanc Books is proud to announce that the literary journal, Absinthe:  New European Literature (www.absinthenew.com), has become an imprint of Dzanc.  As a 501(c)3 nonprofit publisher dedicated to publishing top drawer literarure and sponsoring free readings and workshops across the country, Dzanc is excited by the opportunity to work with the editors of Absinthe, Dwayne Hayes and Jessica Bomarito. Absinthe will serve as an invaluable addition to Dzanc, bringing the work of European writers and artists to North American audiences for the first time.  

 

Dzanc is committed to finding the absolute best literature to publish. We believe publishing works from around the world is important on two fronts – a) there is some incredible work being done in Europe that has not been made available to those who only read English, and b) reading work from different world view points is essential to having a better understanding of the world we live in, and our own place in it.

 

Dwayne and Jessica have published twelve fantastic issues of Absinthe and Dzanc looks forward to being a part of their publishing dozens more.  Readers of Absinthe may have noticed the Dzanc Books logo on the past few issues as we've had an informal arrangement helping out with some printing aspects.  Dzanc is now excited to formalize our relationship with Absinthe and looks forward to doing many wonderful things with Absinthe in the future.

 

 

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About Dzanc Books

 

Dzanc Books is a 501(c)3 non-profit literary publisher based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. If you would like to learn more about books and programs, or make a donation, please visit our website at www.dzancbooks.org.

Best of the Web 2010

The Best of the Web anthology series has a new Series Editor as of the 2010 edition, and that will be Matt Bell.  The Guest Editor for 2010 will be Kathy Fish, a writer and promoter of online publishing and journals that we're really excited to join forces with for next year's anthology.

Matt has recently sent out the solicitation to the editor's of all of the online journals in our database.  We've set up a special page as of today, for the Best of the Web, and it includes a special nomination form for editors of online journals. 

If you're the publisher/editor of an exclusively online literary journal, and you did not receive the following letter via email, please go on to the site and nominate three works anyway - it just means we either did not have you in the database, or had an outdated email address.

Here is the letter as Matt sent it out today:

Dear Editor,

Dzanc Books' Best of the Web series is a yearly anthology compiling the best fiction, poetry, and non-fiction published in online literary journals. Now beginning its third year, the mission of the Best of the Web series is to promote and expand the reach and prestige of online literature by offering this annual glimpse into the best writing the internet has to offer.

The 2008 and 2009 editions of Best of the Web were guest-edited by Steve Almond and Lee K. Abbott, respectively, and collectively published over one hundred established and emerging fiction writers, poets, and essayists. Continuing in this tradition, Best of the Web 2010, guest edited by Kathy Fish with Matt Bell as series editor, will include interviews with contributors, a list of the year's other Notable Stories, and a comprehensive index of over 330 online journals considered for inclusion in the anthology, including information on how to submit to each journal. This additional content will offer an added value above and beyond the already worthy writing by providing new opportunities for readers and writers alike.

Writing in Best of the Web 2010 will be selected by Ms. Fish and Mr. Bell along with in-house Dzanc editors. All editors of online literary journals are also invited to submit their nominations for this year's edition. Please see the guidelines below for further information, as well as the Best of the Web website. You'll also find blurbs from reviews of the previous volumes at the bottom of this e-mail.

Feel free to pass this call for nominations along to other editors or to post it online at your journal's blog, as our e-mail list—while extensive—is certainly not complete, and there may be journals we have not yet reached who would be interested in submitting nominations and in being a part of our index.

Thank you so much for your time and for all the hard work you do with your own publication and as part of the online literary community. We're very excited to once again read for this yearly celebration of your own efforts and those of your fellow editors and writers.

Sincerely,

Matt Bell
Kathy Fish
Steve Gillis
Dan Wickett
Best of the Web Series
Dzanc Books   

NOMINATION GUIDELINES

Nomination for Best of the Web 2010 will be accepted from August 5, 2009 until October 31^st, 2009. Each online literary journal is allowed to nominate up to three works they've published, in any combination of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.

To be eligible, works must have been published exclusively online between November 1st, 2008 and October 31st, 2009.

To nominate your three choices, please use the web form found at the Best of the Web website (http://dzancbooks.org/BestOfTheWeb/index.html), being sure to fill out the required fields completely. Not only will this ensure that we receive your nomination, it will also help us include your journal in our index of online literary magazines that will appear in the 2010 book and on the website.

Our judging process will be complete by early January, after which we will send e-mail notifications to those editors whose works have been selected for inclusion in this year's anthology, as well as requests for reprint rights from the writers selected.

Thank you very much for your interest in Best of the Web, and for the impressive work you do at your individual journal. It's our deep belief that the internet publishing scene produces much of the most innovative and interesting work being printed anywhere, and it is our great honor to read your nominations in the hopes of spreading the very best of that work to new audiences.

 

PRAISE FOR THE 2008 AND 2009 EDITIONS OF BEST OF THE WEB

"The book is heartily significant, featuring work that is sometimes surprising...and sometimes exhilarating--not unlike the Web itself." –Los Angeles Times

"The book both recognizes a wide range of quality online writing, and gives its readers a comprehensive look at the field from which its contents come – two characteristics of a good anthology... Such a development could not have come at a better time for online literary publishing." –NewPages

" in addition to the work itself, the open structure of this collection also encourages an interesting conversation about style and aesthetics. Between these covers poetry bumps up against fiction; longer work is juxtaposed to shorter; traditional narrative meets the absurd; and canonical authors like Stephen Dixon share equal page space with writers who’d probably never identify themselves by that title." –Fiction Writer's Review

More Magazine Loves Misfits and Other Heroes

More Magazine's website has been chock full of good stuff lately when it comes to books coverage and they recently posted about five great indie titles to keep your eyes peeled for.

First on the blocks to appear is none other than Suzanne Burns' Misfits and Other Heroes with the comment:

A daring first story collection by a poet. If you love Flannery O'Connor, try Burns.

We think that's a fine comparison for Suzanne's work and suggest you go over and read about the other four (two of which I can vouch for as excellent reads - numbers 2 and 5, leading me to believe I'll enjoy the two remaining titles as well) as well, and give all five a chance!

Congratulations to Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg’s Story Collection Selected as B&N Discover Great Books Pick

 July 23, 2009 - Ann Arbor, MI —Dzanc Books is excited to announce that Laura van den Berg’s short story collection, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, has been selected by Barnes and Noble to be a Discover Great Books pick for the Holiday season.  The collection is set to be published by Dzanc in mid-October and both Laura and Dzanc are excited to have What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us continue to receive this sort of recognition.

The title story of Laura's collection will appear in The Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses (November 2009, Pushcart Press).  Laura has also had another story from What The World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us included in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 (2008, Houghton Mifflin), and yet another that will be in Best New American Voices 2010 (October 2009, Mariner Books).  As for Dzanc Books, Laura's selection continues the high regard their books have received lately, in particular their short story collections.  The Kansas City Star included 3 collections published by Dzanc or their imprints in their Top 10 Story Collections of 2008.  Two Dzanc collections also won medals in last year’s IPPY Awards.

Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief had this to say about What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us: 

“Laura van den Berg finds the tension between science and magic and walks it like a tightrope.  Any reader will be glad to have found it.”

About Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg was raised in Florida and earned her MFA at Emerson College. She is the recipient of scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences, the 2009 Julia Peterkin Award, and the 2009-2010 Emerging Writer Lectureship at Gettysburg College. Her fiction has or will soon appear in One Story, Boston Review, Epoch, The Literary Review, American Short Fiction, StoryQuarterly, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008, Best New American Voices 2010, and The Pushcart Prize XXIV: Best of the Small Presses, among other publications. The winner of the Dzanc Prize, Laura’s first collection of stories, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, will be published by Dzanc Books in October 2009.

Best of the Web 2009 Internet Invasion Today

Dzanc's Best of the Web 2009 is invading the internet today, with many of the authors included in this year's anthology participating in guest posts across the literary blogosphere.  Below you can find links to them (quick note - this has been pre-posted and a few of these may not go live until a bit later during the day):

Marcela Fuentes has a guest post over at Clifford Garstang's Perpetual Folly.

M. Thomas Gammarino writes about his story over at The Short Review's blog (along with a great introduction by Tania Hershman!).

Todd Hasak-Lowy's guest post can be found just below this one at the EWN.

Matthew Derby's post about his story is at www.mdbell.com.

Philip Holden was given the reins for a post over at Isak today.

Amy L. Clark has a guest post you can read at Sean Lovelace's It All Relates 2 Writing.

Corey Mesler's guest post can be found at the PANK Magazine blog.

Kate Peterson at Brevity's blog, has a post up too.

Amber Cook writes about her work over at Keyhole Magazines's blog.

Jeff Parker writes about his story over at HTML Giant.

Karen Heuler wrote one up for All Art Everywhere Is Free.

Terese Svoboda's essay about her short essay can be found at GDCS + SWDP.

And David at Large Hearted Boy has added a new book notes today with write-ups from over a dozen of the BotW authors.

Thanks to all of these wonderful sites for helping us spread the word about this great anthology!

Short Story Month Essay Collection

This past May's celebration of the short story produced an extraordinary number of great articles, blog posts and reviews in support of Short Story Month.   We at Dzanc thought what a wonderful resource it would be to compile some of these essays into one publication.   In partnering with Matt Bell of www.mdbell.com, Aaron Burch of Hobart, Steven McDermott of Storyglossia, and our own Dan Wickett at Emerging Writers Network, Dzanc has put together a collection of no less than 160 essays, covering over 320 pages, into one book.  Each essay explores a specific story and/or collection by authors both heralded and overlooked, all deserving of a first - or second, or twelfth - read. As we are all readers and lovers of great writing, the chance to have a compilation of essays that champion some of the great stories and story collections of our time, provides an invaluable tool to turn to when  wondering what to read next.   Dzanc Books - as part of its mission as a nonprofit 501(c)3 press dedicated to bringing literature and lit programs to a wider audience -  will mail you a copy of these Short Story Month Essays for a minor tax deductible donation.  On top of publishing great works of literary fiction, Dzanc Books provides workshops for students in the public schools free of charge.   Our Dzanc Writers In Residency Programs matches writers with students whose schools do not otherwise provide students the opportunity to explore their own creative voices.  Dzanc covers all expenses for these programs, which run several thousand dollars each.  All monies donated to Dzanc for the purchase of our Short Story Month Essays will go 100% to our charitable programs which Dzanc conducts nationwide.   A ten dollar donation will cover our costs (printing and shipping) on our SSME and, understanding these harsh economic times, we wont appeal to you for anything beyond which you can afford.  We believe these essays provide insights and recommendation for books and authors which can be turned to again and again.  Dan and I thank you in advance.  To get your own copy, please visit our support page at http://www.dzancbooks.org/support and make a tax deductible donation of ten dollars or more.  Please email Dan at info@dzancbooks.org if you have any questions. Sincerely, Steve Gillis Dan Wickett Dzanc Books www.dzancbooks.org

A Note From Ben Percy If you fell from the sky and landed on any street corner in this country, you would not know where you were, lost in the concrete maze of Taco Johns, Burger Kings, Best Buys, K-Marts, Wal-Marts. Sometimes I feel similarly adrift and headachey when wandering a chain bookstore, where the same two dozen authors stare out at me from slick dust jackets, where short story collections are difficult if not impossible to find, where novels are weighed down with codes and techno-jargon and brand-name clothes and throbbing euphemisms, where literature sometimes feels as substantial as a Big Mac and fries. Which is why Dzanc comes as a welcome shot of adrenaline to the heart. It is a publishing venture that transcends the bottom-line, that trumpets what the big houses have crassly elbowed aside, that reminds us reading is more than entertainment, that books are more than commodities. Their standard is bad-ass literary excellence, no matter if it can't be tidily packaged or pitched by some agent at a cocktail party where everybody wears black and none of the cheese is yellow. If you look at their line-up of emerging and established rock stars -Yannick Murphy, Terese Svoboda , Kyle Minor, Roy Kesey, Laura van den Berg, and Michael Czyzniejewski, to name a few-it's quite clear that Dzanc is a force. But they're also visionary-with their Best of the Web anthologies-and goodhearted-with their affordable online workshops, their writer-in-residence program, and their prize for literary excellence and community service-not to mention many-tentacled-with their imprints (OV Books, Black Lawrence Press, Monkeybicycle), their new online magazine The Collagist, and of course the Emerging Writers' Network (where the magic began). Folks, we're talking about a homegrown wonder, something to applaud, a bit of a miracle. I'm not at all surprised, but I'm heartened, that Publishers Weekly called Dzanc the future of publishing; the industry should be so lucky. Join me in supporting them. Or else.   Sincerely, Benjamin Percy

The Collagist

Dzanc Books is pleased to announce its newest venture: an online journal called The Collagist. Intent on continuing the Dzanc tradition of bringing extraordinary writing to a wide audience, the first issue of The Collagist will be published on August 15th, 2009, and appear subsequently each month thereafter at www.thecollagist.com.

The Collagist is edited by Matt Bell, with Matthew Olzmann as Poetry Editor. Each month The Collagist will deliver outstanding new short stories, poems, and essays from both emerging and established writers, as well as an exclusive excerpt from a forthcoming novel. Early excerpts will include works from the standard bearers of independent publishing, including Coffee House, Two Dollar Radio, and Unbridled Books. The Collagist will also publish several new book reviews in every issue.

The Collagist is immediately open for submissions in all categories. As you might assume, we suggest you read the books Dzanc and its imprints publish to get a flavor of what writing gets us most excited. Submissions guidelines can be found at www.thecollagist.com/submissions.html.

We thank you in advance for your submissions and your readership, and look forward to sharing this exciting new project with you when our first issue launches in August.

Sincerely,

Steve Gillis
Dan Wickett
Matt Bell
Dzanc Books

The Collagist Submissions

Fiction:

The Collagist will include four short stories in each monthly issue. We will consider all lengths of short fiction, from flash through novella. Send to fiction@thecollagist.com and list “The Collagist - Fiction submission” in the subject line.

Poetry:

The Collagist will include work from four poets in each monthly issue, publishing between 1 and 3 poems per poet. We will consider all types of poetry. Send to poetry@thecollagist.com and list “The Collagist - Poetry submission” in the subject line.

Non-Fiction:

The Collagist will include between one and three essays in each monthly issue, ranging from personal and political essays, to literary criticism. Send to nonfiction@thecollagist.com and list “The Collagist - Non-fiction submission” in the subject line.

Book Reviews:

The Collagist will include two or three book reviews in each monthly issue. We will arrange for these in advance. If you would like to become a book reviewer for The Collagist, please email Dan Wickett at dan@dzancbooks.org. Include in your email two or three of your past reviews, and if there are any specific books you'd like to review, please include those titles as well.

Novel Excerpts:

The Collagist will include one novel excerpt per issue. This will be from a novel due to be published within the next three months. The Collagist will be working with numerous publishers well ahead of time on these. If a publisher would like to suggest a particular title they are publishing, please email Dan Wickett at dan@dzancbooks.org to do so. Please try to do so between six and nine months prior to the book's publication date to have it have a chance of working into our schedule.

DCWS - A Reminder and Some Great Feedback

Dzanc Books is pleased to share some of the feedback we've been receiving regarding the Dzanc Creative Writing Sessions.  



This letter is designed to remind you of our program and invite you to sign up for, or let others know of, what we believe is one of the most innovative online writing workshops being offered today.  If you've got a website, literary journal, literary blog, or any other means of spreading information along, we'd greatly appreciate your sharing the news of this program. 

Since announcing the program less than three months ago, we've provided mentoring help for nearly 100 writers - here is what some of them had to say afterward:

"I can't say enough about how valuable this process has been for me -- and will continue to be as I digest her comments and revise my story.  Her insight, encouragement and suggestions are just what I needed.

I will definitely participate in this program again in the future!  Thanks so much for the opportunity."
 
-- Jennifer Hollmeyer

"I am so glad you guys have this, I cannot tell you how pleased I am."

-- James Moore

"I found the experience quite wonderful."
 
-- Caitlin Hamilton

"Thank you so much for your time and for your words of encouragement.  And thanks especially for being so straight with me -- this is exactly the kind of tough coaching I need."

-- Michael Mussman

"Thanks so much for the in-depth critique . . . Also, I'm applying your no-holds barred editorial style to many of my other stories.  I appreciate your time and insights."

-- John Fox

I wanted to let you and Michele Battiste know that your program through her guidance has been extremely useful for me. I had gotten to a point in my project at which I felt stuck, and I don't have an effective writers group here in Japan to help me. Michele's comments and critique reminded me of some long-standing tendencies that I had forgotten I need to avoid, and she also made some insightful points which were new ideas for me. Best of all, I am reinvigorated and working hard on the project again. Thank you so much for that.

-- Jessica Goodfellow

Another student of the sessions wrote up a really nice review over at HTML Giant.

As a reminder, the DCWS is founded on the principle that many authors' lifestyles do not afford them the opportunity to obtain feedback on their writing - be it where they live, their work schedule, or finances.  We feel that all authors deserve the opportunity to have their work reviewed.  Unlike most of the current workshop opportunities - MFA programs, Low-Residency programs, colonies, online classes, etc. - the DCWS is unique in that it allows the writer to determine the parameters for their own review sessions.  With the DCWS, you sign up for what you want and need, not some pre-determined program.  

The DCWS is set up to provide a one-to-one working relationship with a published author, allowing you the benefits of their experience, in many cases both writing and teaching.  Nearly 100 great authors have already agreed to volunteer their services as mentors in our DCWS program.  The names you'll find in our database include award winning authors and teachers such as:  George Singleton, Myfanwy Collins, Dawn Raffel, Peter Markus, Leora Skolkin-Smith, Katrina Denza, Laura van den Berg, Kevin Wilson, Nancy Cherry, Jeff Parker and Mike Czyzniejewski. From this list, writers paying to participate in the DCWS may select an available author to work with. Participating writers will then have their work critiqued and can discuss in detail their writing and any other areas of writing in general they wish to explore with their DCWS author.  

The DCWS will utilize email to reduce the difficulties writers such as yourself have when looking to find feedback on your work.  Our workshops  remove the limitations of both time and distance as you'll send your work and questions to your mentor when and where you have access to the internet.  Each participant will determine how many hours of mentoring they need, as well as how to progress - you asking specific questions about your work, or you asking for your manuscript to be edited (10 pages per hour), or simply looking for a back and forth conversation about your work after the mentor you select has read the work.  

The program is being offered at an extremely low rate - many of the instructing authors volunteering their time to Dzanc do similar work as freelancers and charge much greater rates than are being offered here through the DCWS.  Other workshops and writing programs charge a lump sum of several hundred dollars up front.  Not only does the DCWS allow you to control and target your expenses, but 100% of the money brought in by Dzanc by our DCWS goes to supporting the writing programs we run for students grades 4-12.  These additional programs - currently being run nationally by Dzanc - are offered free of charge to students who would not otherwise be able to afford and experience these sort of writing programs.

The DCWS sessions are set up in hourly blocks and can be ordered as follows:

1 hour   - $20
2 hours - $30
4 hours - $50

The DCWS eliminates your need to travel to a university.  It also eliminates your need to lay out a few hundred dollars up front for an 8 or 10 week online course.  It allows you to jump in and out when you are available, and also allows you to select from the list of authors that have generously volunteered their time to this project.  A full list is available at our website.  This list includes published novelists, short story writers, flash fiction writers, poets and non-fiction writers. If you don't feel the need to select a specific author, we'll simply assign a writer to you.  

For more information on our Creative Writing Sessions program, please send an email to info@dzancbooks.org.

In order to sign up now, head over to visiting the DCWS page at our website http://www.dzancbooks.org/creative.html and select your author.  After deciding how many hours to work with your mentor, click on the Paypal button that corresponds to that number, and fill in the mentor name in the appropriate field and we'll get you started.   

Sincerely,

Steven Gillis
Dan Wickett
Dzanc Books
www.dzancbooks.org

Best of the Web 2009 plus Special Offer!

And here we have it, the who, the from where, and all that fun stuff.  The following is the list of authors, titles and journals involved for the stories, flashes, poems and essays that will be in Best of the Web 2009.  We thank the many (296 by our current count) online journals and their editors for the great material they’ve published, as well as for taking the time to nominate specific titles and help publicize this anthology series in general – we appreciate your many efforts!

 

The 2009 is now available for pre-order (it will be in stores in late June) at the Dzanc website for $18.00.  We are also currently running a special, pre-order the Best of the Web 2009 anthology AND the Best of the Web 2008 and one of them is 50% off (only $30 total)!

 

The line-up for Best of the Web 2009:

 

Waqar Ahmed – The Right Passenger – Anderbo
Arlene Ang – I’m Not Supposed to Wear This Gorilla Costume – Juked
Arlene Ang – Alopecia and the grizzly bear – Arsenic Lobster
Michael Baker – Absent Without Leave – Convergence Journal
Marcelo Ballve – Macedonio Fernandez:  The Man Who Invented Borges – The Quarterly Conversation
Marge Barrett – A Floater on the Course – Hot Metal Bridge
Carmelinda Blagg – Geographies – Avatar Review
Benjamin Buchholz – New Joe – StoryGLOSSIA
Blake Butler – Landlord – Memorious
Blake Butler – 2 Stories – Action Yes
Jimmy Chen – The Unrealistic Philosopher – Prick of the Spindle
Amy L. Clark – Forearm and Elbow – Juked
Amber Cook – Little Mother – Toasted Cheese
Bill Cook – Little Witches – Summerset Review
Michael Czyzniejewski – On the Other Hand – Waccamaw
Darlin’ Neal – Powwow – Wigleaf
Matthew Derby – January in December – Guernica
Ryan Dilbert – Anything Was Anything – FriGG
Stephen Dixon – No Knocks – failbetter
Alex Dumont – Second Sunday – Fawlt Magazine
Claudia Emerson – Photographer – The Cortland Review
D.A. Feinfeld – Amputation – Entelechy:  Mind & Culture
Marcela Fuentes – An Ugly Man – Vestal Review
M. Thomas Gammarino – The Fridge – The Adirondack Review
Cassandra Garbus – Colors – The Cortland Review
Molly Gaudry – The American – UpRightDown
Anne Germanacos – When He Died – Elimae
Matt Getty – When My Girlfriend Lost the Weight – FriGG
Todd Hasak-Lowy – Silver and Blue – Five Chapters
Karen Heuler – Ball Lightning – Oxford Magazine
Ash Hibbert – More Than Just a Stolid Pump – Journal of Truth and Consequence
Philip Holden – Two Among Many – Cha:  An Asian Literary Journal
Roy Kesey – Krazy – Hot Metal Bridge
Hari Bhajan Khalsa – I Would Tell You – Avatar Review
Tricia Louvar – Bounty – Smokelong Quarterly
Peter Markus – Our Father in the Belly of the Fish – failbetter
Michael Martone – Four Alabama Seasons – failbetter
Heather Killelea McEntarfer – Catching Hell – Terrain
Lindsay Merbaum – Cannibal Love – Our Stories
Corey Mesler – Rock Paste – Cezanne’s Carrot
Laura Mullen – Spectogram/Repairs – Tarpaulin Sky Press
Joseph Olschner – The Dance of Curb Chickens – Arsenic Lobster
Jeff Parker – The Boy and the Colgante – Waccamaw
Elise Paschen – Hive – Valparaiso Poetry Review
Elizabeth Penrose – Hives – Abyss & Apex
Kate Petersen – To All Those Who Say Write What You Know – Brevity
Glen Pourciau – Belly – Hobart
Sam Rasnake – Chamber Music – BOXCAR Poetry Review
Jonathan Rice – Amongst the Cares – AGNI Online
Tom Sheehan – Knickers – Wheelhouse Magazine
Claudia Smith – Babyfat – NOÖ Journal
Lynn Strongin – Hidden Child #9 – The Centrifugal Eye
Terese Svoboda – How Catholic – Brevity
Jon Thompson – Melville and Bartleby:  Facing the End of an Audience – Identity Theory
Davide Trame – The Stare – Convergence Journal
Donna D. Vitucci – Mandible – Front Porch Journal
Helen Wickes – The World As You Left It – AGNI Online
Kathrine Leone Wright – Why – Brevity
Jordan Zinovich – Theodolite’s Survey – Big Bridge

Congratulations to the authors and journals above for writing and publishing fantastic work last year!

Kyle Minor = Tom Hanks

Jason Sanford, the man behind the Million Writers Award, has dubbed Kyle Minor (In the Devil's Territory) the Tom Hanks of the online writing world as the 2008 Notable Stories list has been unveiled and Kyle appears on the list four times with stories that he'd published in Freight Stories, Plots With Guns, and Pindeldyboz. 

Congrats to Kyle and props to Jason for his continued devotion to the Million Writers Award.