LUIS JARAMILLO WINS DZANC SHORT STORY
COLLECTION CONTEST
May 11, 2010, Ann Arbor, MI—Dzanc Books
is pleased to announce that Luis Jaramillo, Associate Chair of the Writing
Program at the New School, is the winner of our 2009 short story collection
contest. Jaramillo’s manuscript, The Doctor’s Wife, was selected from
more than 100 submissions. This
collection will be published in October 2012.
Dan
Wickett, Executive Director at Dzanc Books, notes: “Jaramillo’s
stories quickly caught our attention.
They are excellent without being flashy or showy; they are really strongly written. I began the collection, and many of the
stories are short, under five pages, and I moved from one to the next to the
next until I realized I had read half of his book without noticing time passing
by, the darkening windows, or just how hungry I had become. It’s going to be a great pleasure for Dzanc
to see this collection through to publication.”
“I'm
honored and thrilled that The Doctor's Wife found a home at Dzanc Books,” was
Jaramillo’s reaction to the news.
ABOUT LUIS JARAMILLO
Luis
Jaramillo’s work has been published or is forthcoming in Open City, Gamers (Soft Skull Press),
Tin House Magazine, H.O.W. Journal, and Red Line Blues. He is the Associate
Chair of the Writing Program at the New School,
where he oversees the undergraduate curriculum, the Riggio Honors Program:
Writing & Democracy, teaches courses in fiction and nonfiction, and curates
a reading series on food writing. He has also led
workshops on Yoga and Writing at the New School Summer Writers Colony, NYU Paris, and the
Laughing Lotus Yoga Studios in Manhattan and San Francisco.
ABOUT DZANC BOOKS,
SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS, AND OUR NEXT CONTEST
Dzanc
Books was created in 2006 by Steven Gillis and Dan Wickett to advance great
writing and to champion those writers who do not fit neatly into the marketing
niches of for-profit presses. As a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization, Dzanc
Books not only publishes literary fiction, but works in partnership with
literary journals to advance their readership at every level. Dzanc is also
fully committed to developing educational programs in schools and organizes
workshops and Writer-In-Residence programs in Michigan and elsewhere to meet
that goal.
Dzanc
Books is very committed to the short story and publishing collections. Three of the KC Star’s top ten story collections in 2008 were published by Dzanc
Books or one of our imprints (BLP, OV Books, and Keyhole Books) and between
these three houses there have been, or will be, at least 10 collections
published in both 2009 and again in 2010.
Dzanc
Books is holding a third short story collection contest beginning
immediately. Details can be found at http://www.dzancbooks.org/submissions.html.
For
further details and more information on Dzanc Books, its mission, titles,
authors, awards, and programs, please visit www.dzancbooks.org.
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