Our first annual full-length fiction contest, to be judged by Lee K. Abbott, is now closed. Readers will soon forward finalists to Mr. Abbott for review.

Peter Filkins's collection of poems, Augustine's Vision, is now available.

Renee Ashley's The Verbs of Desiring and Andy Frazee's That the World Should Never Again Be Destroyed by Flood are both now available.

Welcome to New American Press

We like poetry, fiction, drama, nonfiction, and some things that defy categorization. But ultimately we want what any reader wants: to be dazzled.

Our first annual full-length fiction contest, to be judged by Lee K. Abbott, is now closed. Readers will soon forward finalists to Mr. Abbott for review.

Our online magazine, MAYDAY, launched on May 1, 2009. The second issue features a huge showcase of contemporary Asian art curated by scholar, critic, and translator Maya Kóvskaya — including work by Han Bing, Tao Amin, the Gao Brothers, Anthony Key, Mithu Sen, Tejal Shah, JJ Xi, and Cai Yuan, and many more — in addition to photography, fiction, poetry, essays, translations, reviews, and commentary by Aaron Burch, Cindy M. Carter, Stephan Clark, Paul Crenshaw, Nitoo Das, Rana Dasgupta, Antara Datta, Kathy Fagan, Marlon Frisby, Geoffrey Gatza, Ben George, Barbara Hamby, Raymond Hammond, T. R. Hummer, William Hurst, Subuhi Jiwani, Kent Johnson, Mary Kasimor, Alexander Keefe, David Kirby, Jacob Knabb, Miriam N. Kotzin, Nicholas Manning, C. J. Martin, Anne McPeak, Jessica Neiweem, Craig Nova, Daniele Pantano, Alyssa Pelish, Randall Radic, Chuck Richardson, T. P. Sabitha, Mark Smith-Soto, David R. Slavitt, Marcus Slease, Christopher Spranger, Jodee Stanley, Ida Stewart, Elizabeth Switaj, Tony Trigilio, Dan Venne, Joshua Ware, Jajah Wu, and Georg Trakl.

Enjoy the current issue, and don't forget to check out the submission guidelines.

Check out the second edition of David Lloyd's The Gospel According to Frank, including a new forward by Sinatra scholar Gilbert Gigliotti.

Bloomsbury, J. K. Rowling's publisher, just released Thomas E. Kennedy's new novel, In the Company of Angels, but we thought it only fair that you take a look at his new novel-in-essays published by New American Press called (with thanks to Steve Davenport) Last Night My Bed a Boat of Whiskey Going Down.