Dzanc Day - March 20, 2010

On the heels of announcing the winner of this year's Dzanc Prize, Dzanc Books is proud to announce Dzanc Day!

The following is the Press Release being sent out to print and online media sources:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

ANNOUNCING DZANC DAY:  MARCH 20, 2010

 

January 21, 2010, Ann Arbor, MI - Dzanc Books, the award-winning publishing house, is pleased to announce our latest project: DZANC DAY.  Dzanc's new effort to expand our mission and bring the creative world to a national audience, DZANC DAY, takes its cue from the popularity of our Dzanc Creative Writing Sessions.  On March 20, 2010, Dzanc will run over 30 creative writing workshops in 25 cities across the country.  These workshops will be held in cities from Portland, OR to Orlando, FL, from New Haven, CT to Los Angeles, CA and points between. 

All monies raised from DZANC DAY will go toward supporting Dzanc's charitable programs which, in part, bring creative writing programs to students who could not otherwise afford the opportunity.  Fantastic authors from across the country have volunteered their time, experience, and expertise to run these individual workshops:

BJ Hollars/Tuscaloosa, AL; Scott Beal/Ann Arbor, MI; Jeff Kass/Ann Arbor, MI; Anna Clark/Detroit, MI; Peter Markus/Ferndale, MI; Rachael Perry/Brighton, MI; Amelia Gray/Austin, TX; Michael Czyzniejewski/Chicago; Fred McGavran/Cincinnati, OH; Dave Housley/Washington DC; John Domini/Des Moines, IA; Philip F. Deaver/Orlando, FL; J.A. Tyler/Fort Collins, CO; Anis Shivani/Houston, TX; Stefan Kiesbye/Los Angeles, CA; Susannah Felts/Nashville, TN; Claudia Zuluaga/New York, NY; Dawn Raffel and Pamela Ryder/New York, NY; Derek Green/New Haven, CT; Jennifer Spiegel-Bell and Bhira Backhaus/Phoenix, AZ; Marcel Jolley and Hobie Anthony/Portlant, OR; Anne Leigh Parrish/Seattle, WA; Kyle Minor/Columbus, OH; Darren Defrain/Wichita, KS; Katy Vopal/Milwaukee, WI; Sherrie Flick/Pittsburgh, PA; Nancy Krygowski/Pittsburgh, PA; Jen Michalski/Baltimore, MD; Seth Harwood/Berkeley, CA; and K. Kvashay-Boyle/Los Angeles, CA.

Each workshop will allow students to work face-to-face with the instructor in specific venues with each location focusing on a specific aspect of the writing world.  For example:

 

Flannery O'Connor Short Fiction Award winning author, Philip F. Deaver, will run his Short Story Crank Workshop at the Urban Think Bookstore in Orlando, FL.  In it he will use a series of prompt exercises designed to get an author well into a first draft of a short story in a short period of time.

In NYC the combination of Dawn Raffel and Pamela Ryder, two writers well known for their innovative usage of language, will be co-running a workshop at the Mercantile Library Center for Fiction, analyzing short fiction, as well as discussing voice, stance, and the acoustical effects of writing, plus using exercises to get students up and running on work of their own.

 

This link will take you to the DZANC DAY page at our website where specific details regarding each session including location, time, details of the workshop, and author biographies.  The page is also where individuals wishing to sign up for one of the workshops will be able to, either via Paypal, or by sending an email and check to the address listed.  Most of the workshops will run for 4 or 5 hours and will cost $50, while another runs for 8 hours and will cost $100, rates far lower than any comparable program.

The DZANC DAY workshops serve not only to expand Dzanc's effort to bring inexpensive, face-to-face workshops to a wider audience, but also to help us generate income that will, as noted, allow Dzanc to continue that effort in our other charitable arenas - publishing literary fiction, awarding the annual Dzanc Prize, running Dzanc Writer in Residence Programs in schools across the country, and more.

For more information please visit the DZANC DAY page at the Dzanc website.  Questions can be directed to Dan Wickett at [email protected].
 

ABOUT DZANC BOOKS

 

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.

 

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