The submission period for the 2012 New American Fiction Prize is now open. Winner receives a publication contract, including 25 complimentary copies and $1000. All full-length fiction manuscripts are welcome, including novels, novellas, collections of stories and/or novellas, novels in verse, and linked collections, as well as full-length collections of flash fiction and short-shorts.

Final judge this year is Kyle Minor, whose recent work appears in The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, and in anthologies such as Best American Mystery Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 2008), Surreal South (Press 53, 2007), and Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers (Random House, 2006). Random House named Kyle one of the “Best New Voices of 2006,” and The Columbus Dispatch named him one of their ”20 Under 30 Artists to Watch” in 2007.

To submit online using our online submission manager, please click here.

To submit using traditional post, please send your manuscript (approx. 100-500 pages) and the $20 reading fee (checks payable to "New American Press") to:

New American Fiction Contest
Attn: David Bowen
2606 E. Locust St.
Milwaukee, WI 53211

We read manuscripts blind, so please include a separate cover sheet with your manuscript's title and your name, address, telephone number, and email address, but exclude any identifying information from the manuscript itself.

Postmark deadline is June 1, 2012.