Clancy Martin | photo by Lauren Schrader
Submissions for the 2025 New American Fiction Prize are now open. Winner will receive a contract including a $1500, publication, twenty-five copies, and promotional support.
DEADLINE: JUNE 15, 2025.
All full-length fiction manuscripts are welcome, including novels, novellas, collections of stories and/or novellas, novels in verse, linked collections, as well as full-length collections of flash fiction and short-shorts. Full-length fiction manuscripts tend to be at least 100 pages. There is no maximum length.
To submit, please access our convenient online submission manager, which saves paper and helps keep things organized. Entry fee is $25.
We read manuscripts blind, so please exclude identifying information from the manuscript itself. All necessary contact information is included in your Submittable file.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted and encouraged. Please contact us immediately if your manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere.
Final judge this year is CLANCY MARTIN. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author of How to Sell: A Novel and Travels in Central America and has written or edited more than a dozen books on philosophy, including Love and Lies and The Philosophy of Deception. His essays and short fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. His forthcoming book, How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind, blends memoir and critical inquiry. Martin teaches at the University of Missouri in Kansas City and Ashoka University.
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