Dzanc Winter Sale!
“Middleton’s tale is irresistibly gothic.” —Barnes & Noble DARKANSAS BY JARRET MIDDLETON 16.95 Publication Date: August 7 2018Paperback: 216 pagesISBN: 978-1-945814-59-4 Jordan is a country musician living in the shadow of his father, bluegrass legend Walker Bayne. A man who has made a lifetime of poor decisions, Jordan bounces between dive bars, accruing women and drinking...
Novel Outline Bootcamp – Registration opens 8/18!
Novel Outline Bootcamp All Levels | In order to break the rules, we must first learn them. Take a deep dive into the three-act structure as well as the building blocks of plot, characters, conflict, resolution, and metaphor. Whether you come to class with a partial draft or nothing more than a rough idea, you...
Lit Crawl 2019: Spooky in Seattle
Lit Crawl SeattleFREE!Thursday, October 24, 20196pm–9pmCapitol Hill, Seattle, WA Get drunk . . . on words! Think of Lit Crawl Seattle as a free cool reading at your favorite bar, times about 30. For one beautiful and awesomely weird night, over 80 Pacific Northwest readers and artists fill Capitol and First Hill bars with stories...
Review: Night Boat to Tangier – Shelf Awareness
Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry Facebook Twitter In the Spanish port town of Algeciras, two men wait in a ferry terminal that is “as awful a place as you could muster.” The men, Maurice and Charlie, are not much better, “a savage pair” of aging Irish criminals. While waiting for Maurice’s daughter, Dilly, to...
Dzanc label party; AWP off-site Fri 3/29 @ Erikson Gallery
Join us for AWP off-site reading at Erikson Gallery in Portland, OR Friday, April 29th at 7PM. Readings, books, drinks, prizes, games, and shenanigans! Featuring:Julia Dixon EvansAlice HatcherJac JemcChrissy KolayaRobert LopezJarret MiddletonLance OlsonEmma Smith-StevensJason Tougaw #dzancbooks #teamdzanc Erickson Gallery (a short walk from the convention center)9 NW 2nd Ave., Portland, OR 97209
Sign up for Novel Bootcamp starting 2/5!
All Levels | Get that full-length fiction outline into shape! By taking a deeper look at the structural building blocks of the novel—plot, characters, conflict, resolution, and metaphor—we will work together to define the story you are meant to tell. Whether you come to class with a partial draft or nothing more than a rough idea,...
Read ‘The Cable Company’ at Heavy Feather Review
“The Cable Company” by Jarret Middleton Heavy Feather October 25, 2018 Haunted Passages A barmaid closing up for the night stopped polishing a glass when a telegram dropped through the slot of the front door. She picked up the envelope marked “urgent” in red and unearthed a manila slip with a single typewritten line....
