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.

We are pleased to announce the longlists for the Dzanc Prize for Fiction, the Short Story Collection Prize, and the Nonfiction Prize. Winners and finalists will be announced November 15.

Narrated by a chorus of sharp-witted cockroaches, The Wonder That Was Ours, follows Wynston Cleave, a taxi driver on a small Caribbean island torn apart by riots and devastating violence. Alice Hatcher's debut, winner of last year's Dzanc Prize for Fiction, hits shelves on September 4. Read an excerpt of the first chapter here.