Support Beyond the Binary: Stories that Shift Culture
Our 2025–2026 Youth Retrospectives are here — and every copy purchased keeps our doors open.
This collection holds the rawest, most powerful work from the LGBTQ+ youth poets and artists in our program this year. These are stories written in real time, by real kids, finding their voice and their community through art.
Your purchase, your impact:
1 copy — $20
Covers material costs for one workshop: paper, pens, books, journals, and the art supplies that turn a blank page into a breakthrough.
5 copies — $75
Funds stipends for our high school student mentors and editors — the young people who show up every week to learn publishing, podcasting, production, and editing, while lifting up the next generation of writers.
10 copies — $150
Supports an entire season of free K–12 programming. Become a champion of literary and cultural arts access for young people, year-round.
Every copy sold is a workshop funded, a mentor supported, a young writer's voice amplified.
When you buy a copy, you're not just getting a book — you're fueling a movement.
Dzanc House runs free, year-round programming for LGBTQ+ youth writers, poets, and artists — no cost to families, no barriers to entry. That only happens because readers like you show up.
FRIENDS OF DZANC HOUSE
Celebrate the Art of Giving. Celebrate the Power of Independent Literature.
Dzanc House is a home for meaning-making — a free, year-round space where writers and artists of every age, young to old and everyone in between, gather to create, learn, and grow. Every gift you give sustains that space, and comes back to you as a beautifully curated, story-driven thank-you, chosen to reflect the original voices and editorial excellence we champion.
Browse the many ways to root yourself in this house — seasonal offerings, limited-edition treasures, and a warm, welcoming editorial community. Each one a small doorway into something larger: a belief that stories are essential, and that every voice, however young or new, deserves a home to grow in.
To join the Friends of Dzanc House is to help keep that home standing — and the light on inside it.
Join the Movement
GIVING LEVELS & GIFTS
Every gift in the campaign is designed to: reflect our values—inclusivity, originality, and independent thought; support real authors, editors, and artists; and strengthen the literary community we all believe in.
$1
House Raffle Entry: Dzanc
Writers’ Suite Getaway
(Minimum 2,500 entries required for grand prize. If not met, winner receives 50% of collected funds.)
Give a little, receive something meaningful. Help Dzanc stay fiercely independent.
Whether it’s $1 or $500, every gift fuels bold publishing, supports emerging writers, and keeps literature vibrant and human.
1 entry to win a weeklong stay at the Dzanc Writers’ Suite
$5
House Raffle Entry: Dzanc
Artists’ Studio Free Month
(Minimum 200 entries required for grand prize. If not met, winner receives 50% of collected funds.)
Give a little, receive something meaningful. Help Dzanc stay fiercely independent.
Whether it’s $1 or $500, every gift fuels bold publishing, supports emerging writers, and keeps literature vibrant and human.
1 entry to win a month-long stay at the Dzanc Artists’ Studio
$10
One Limited-Edition Seasonal Print
OR All Three for $25
Print #1
Print #2
Print #3
Custom-designed, limited-edition print(s)
Seasonally refreshed for winter, spring, summer, fall, and round again.
Ideal for framing or gifting
A custom-designed, limited-edition print featuring a Dzanc writer or poem or book art, Seasonally refreshed for winter, spring, summer, fall, and round again. Ideal for framing or gifting
All three of our custom-designed, limited-edition broadsides featuring a Dzanc writer or poem or book art. Seasonally refreshed for winter, spring, summer, fall, and round again. Ideal for framing or gifting.
$20
Special-Edition Youth Poet
Artist Postcards
An assortment of five, special art postcards from our highlighted young artists
$150
1 year of figure drawing classes
A $240 value!
#dzanclifedrawing
Any amount means
the world to us.
As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, your contributions are tax-deductible!