Denis Franz

Fiction about institutions - the ones that fail us by design, and the ones trying not to.

Denis Franz writes about institutions - the ones that fail us by design, and the ones that are trying not to. His satires, The Mismanagement Manual and Project Mismanagement, take apart the organisations we work inside. Eleven Springs: A Novel of the Long Repair asks a quieter question: what might a system built to genuinely help us cost us anyway? It follows a handwritten ledger through eleven springs and eighty-six years, as communities put a damaged world back together under the eye of a planetary intelligence that has begun to distrust its own perfection.