In light of the recent controversy surrounding the publication of Hesh Kestin’s new novel The Siege of Tel Aviv, co-founder Steve Gillis would like to issue a statement.

Now that the winners of the 2018 Dzanc contests have been announced, we are pleased to release the short list of finalists for the Dzanc Prize for Fiction, the Short Story Collection Prize, and the Nonfiction Prize.

Katz or Cats: Or, How Jesus Became My Rival in Love publishes December 4. Read the prologue and meet the elusive Katz, who starts the book with a desperate confession.

Dzanc Books is pleased to announce the winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize: Knock Wood by Jennifer Militello. Obsessive habits, insane relatives, a criminal ex-lover dead of a heroin overdose, and a current lover untethered in time emerge as this book maps out a new chronology of love and loss.

Dzanc Books is pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize: Homesick by Nino Cipri. Dark, irreverent, and truly innovative, the nine stories in Homesick center on queer relationships and feature transgender or nonbinary characters.

Dzanc Books is pleased to announce the winner of this year’s Dzanc Books Prize for Fiction: Bloomland by John Englehardt. The novel plays out against the backdrop of a mass shooting at a fictional southern college.