Dzanc Title Short Listed for Frank O'Connor Short Fiction Award!

Dzanc Books is extremely pleased to announce that Laura van den Berg's short story collection, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us (Dzanc Books, 2009), has been selected as a finalist for the Frank O'Connor Short Fiction Award.   Announced earlier today, Laura's book is one of six collections that the committee has winnowed down from the original semi-finalist long list of 58 titles. The Frank O'Connor Award, one of the most prestigious awards in the world as it is open internationally and receives submissions from publishers all over the world, is awarded to the best, original collection of stories published in English in the 12 preceding months.  This year's finalists range from debut authors on up to TC Boyle, who has published 20 works of fiction, including 9 short story collections.     Dzanc Books is thrilled to have Laura's work among the finalists.  Since Laura first won the Dzanc Prize in 2008, proving not only her skills as a writer but dedication to social service, her collection has gone on to receive a starred Booklist review, as well as be selected also as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great Writers and a Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Finalist.  Stories from  the collection have also been reprinted in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008, Best New American Voices 2010, and The Pushcart Prize XXIV: Best of the Small Presses.   Laura is a well deserving finalist and we here at Dzanc Books could not be prouder to have published What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us.       For more information about Laura's collection:   http://www.dzancbooks.org/store/vandenberg-water.html   For more information about Laura van den Berg:   www.lauravandenberg.com   For more information about Dzanc Books:   www.dzancbooks.org   For more information about the Frank O'Connor Short Fiction Award:   http://www.munsterlit.ie/FOC%20Award%20page.html