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Book-of-the-Week Winners: <em>The Law of Strings</em>

Book-of-the-Week Winners: The Law of Strings

Our most recent feature was Steven Gillis’s The Law of Strings, and we’re pleased to announce the winners:

Jesse (@braincandybr)
jamey hatley (@jameyhatley)
C.R. Baker (@BornLiar)

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winners [at] fictionwritersreview.com
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Book-of-the-Week Winners: <em>Fires of our Choosing</em>

Book-of-the-Week Winners: Fires of our Choosing

Last week we featured Eugene Cross’s debut collection Fires of Our Choosing as our Book-of-the-Week title, and we’re pleased to announce the winners:

Marisa Birns (@marisabirns)
Amanda Persaud (@afavolosa)
Colleen (@booksnyc)

Congrats! To claim your free copy, please email us at the following address:
winners [at] fictionwritersreview.com
If you’d like to be eligible for future giveaways, please visit our Twitter Page [...]

Reminder: Dzanc Books Fourth Annual Write-a-Thon Fundraiser Starts Today

Reminder: Dzanc Books Fourth Annual Write-a-Thon Fundraiser Starts Today

Each year Dzanc Books hosts a Write-a-Thon to raise money for their charitable endeavors–The Dzanc Prize, the Dzanc Writer-in-Residence Program, Dzanc Day, and numerous other service-oriented endeavors that put writers in communities and classrooms around the country. This year’s Write-a-Thon starts today and runs through Sunday.
Though there’s still time to participate!
Sponsor a Writer
The easiest way [...]

Dzanc Duo: Aaron Burch and Matt Bell

Dzanc Duo: Aaron Burch and Matt Bell

Two recent releases from Dzanc imprint Keyhole Press expand the scope of literary fiction. How to Predict the Weather by Aaron Burch and How They Were Found by Matt Bell create provocative new worlds in their debut collections of short stories. Consistent with this press’s production of thought-provoking fiction, Burch and Bell unravel beautiful and unsettling tales with exquisite prose.

The Origins of Short Story Month: a guest post by Dan Wickett

The Origins of Short Story Month: a guest post by Dan Wickett

Editor’s note: As part of our continuing celebration of Short Story Month, we’re delighted to present a guest post by Dan Wickett, founder and editor of the Emerging Writers Network, co-founder of Dzanc Books, and creator of Short Story Month.

n early April of 2007, I was celebrating National Poetry Month at the Emerging Writers Network [...]

Dzanc Day is almost here!

Dzanc Day is almost here!

Dzanc Books’s second annual National Workshop Day—also known as Dzanc Day—is TOMORROW, April 9, 2011. From the event’s site:
Consisting of dozens of creative writing workshops in almost as many cities, Dzanc Day provides local, affordable two-to-four hour sessions led by professional writers, authors, and editors, all open to attendance by the public for a [...]

Dzanc Day Approacheth

Dzanc Day Approacheth

Dzanc Books’s second annual National Workshop Day—also known as Dzanc Day—is coming up on April 9, 2011. Says the event’s site:
Consisting of dozens of creative writing workshops in almost as many cities, Dzanc Day provides local, affordable two-to-four hour sessions led by professional writers, authors, and editors, all open to attendance by the public [...]

Deadline for Dzanc Prize Extended

Deadline for Dzanc Prize Extended

The deadline for the Dzanc Prize has been extended to March 1, 2011. This is a great opportunity for an emerging writer interested in community service. From the Dzanc website:
In 2007, to further its mission of fostering literary excellence, community involvement, and education, Dzanc Books created the Dzanc Prize, which provides monetary aid [...]

<em>Best of the Web 2010</em>, edited by Kathy Fish and Matt Bell

Best of the Web 2010, edited by Kathy Fish and Matt Bell

Our history with print’s first-rate publications can be a comforting force, a grid of familiar local streets against the sand-swept dunes of online. And it’s this lack of familiarity with digital’s landscape that makes Dzanc’s anthology so incredibly necessary: for new and old writers alike, it’s a guidebook as much as it is a book-book.

<em>The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats</em>, by Hesh Kestin

The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats, by Hesh Kestin

Prior to writing his novel The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats, Hesh Kestin mastered all things non-fiction, serving as European bureau chief of Forbes and war reporter for Newsday before founding two newspapers himself—the Israeli daily The Nation, as well as the prize-winning expatriate, The American. A career crafting leads and managing word counts has shaped Kestin’s fiction in a distinct way: though written richly, it never wastes a cent.