May 20, 2013, Ann Arbor, MI-Dzanc Books is pleased to announce that Stephen Policoff is the winner of our 2012 mid-career novelist award. Policoff's manuscript,Come Away, was selected from nearly 100 submissions. This collection will be published in October 2014.
Dzanc co-founder and
publisher, Steven Gillis said of the manuscript: "Stephen Policoff's Come Away is the sort of book that leaves you in awe of
the way the universal subject of love and parenting and the complexities of
human relationships can be handled here in such a new and inspiring way. By
refusing to rely on pyrotechnics, though with just enough hint of magic realism
and a post-modern narrative, Policoff more than ever burns onto the reader's
consciousness a full and new wonderful understanding of what it means to be
completely vulnerable to and unconditionally loving and exposed by the things
closest to us. Dzanc is excited to have Policoff's Come Away named as the winner of our mid-career novelist
award and look forward to publishing this amazing novel in October 2014."
ABOUT STEPHEN POLICOFF
Stephen Policoff's first
novel,Beautiful Somewhere Else, won the James Jones Award and was published by Carroll & Graf
in 2004. His essay, "Music Today?" about his disabled daughter's
experience in music therapy, won the Fish Short Memoir Award, and was published
in
Fish Anthology 2012 (West Cork University
Press, Ireland). It also appears in the current issue of the new parenting
magazine, Kindling. His essays and fiction
have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including The Rumpus, Otis Nebula,
Provincetown Arts, and Family Fun. He teaches writing in Global Liberal Studies
at NYU, and lives in New York with his two daughters.
ABOUT DZANC BOOKS
Dzanc Books was created
in 2006 to advance great writing and to impact communities nationally with our
efforts to advance literary readership and our advocacy of creative writing
workshops and readings. 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.
For more information on
Dzanc Books and its mission, imprints, books, authors, awards, and programs,
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