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The Ghosts of Other Immigrants front cover

PRE-ORDER: The Ghosts of Other Immigrants: Stories
by Maija Mäkinen

March 6, 2023

The work of Finnish-born writer and translator MAIJA MÄKINEN has appeared in The Iowa Review, Porter House Review, The Bare Life Review, SAND, and in Short, and Vigorous Roots: A Contemporary Flash Fiction Collection of Migrant Voices. She is a graduate of the Boston University Creative Writing Program, winner of the Iowa Review Award in Fiction, the University of Cambridge Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize and the Nadia Christen Prize in Translation, and fellowship recipient to Art Omi: Writers, The Studios of Key West and Kone Foundation’s Saari Residency in Finland. She has worked as a forensics lab dishwasher, candy factory machine operator, copyeditor, camera operator and conference organizer. After seven transatlantic moves, she lives in Brooklyn and writes mostly in English.

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Publish Date: June 06, 2023

Filed Under: Announcements, New American Fiction Prize, Pre-Order Tagged With: Maija Mäkinen

2021 New American Fiction Prize: Final Judge Kristen Arnett

May 26, 2021

Submissions for the 2021 New American Fiction Prize are open. DEADLINE: JUNE 30, 2021 Winner will receive a contract including a $1,500 advance, publication, and twenty-five copies. Final judge is Kristen Arnett.

Filed Under: Announcements, Contests, New American Fiction Prize Tagged With: Kristen Arnett

2021 New American Poetry Prize: Final Judge Quan Barry

May 25, 2021

Submissions for the 2021 New American Poetry Prize are now closed. Winner will receive a contract including a $1,500 advance, publication, and twenty-five copies. Final judge is Quan Barry.

Filed Under: Announcements, Contests, New American Poetry Prize Tagged With: Quan Barry

Winner of 2020 New American Fiction Prize: Erica Plouffe Lazure

May 30, 2020

We’re pleased to announce that Nick White has selected Proof of Me and Other Stories by Erica Plouffe Lazure of Exeter, New Hampshire,, to receive the 2020 New American Fiction Prize!

Filed Under: Announcements, New American Fiction Prize Tagged With: Erica Plouffe Lazure

Winner of 2020 New American Poetry Prize: Janine Certo

May 25, 2020

We’re pleased to announce that Corey Van Landingham selected ELIXIR by Janine Certo of East Lansing, Michigan, to receive the 2020 New American Poetry Prize!

Filed Under: Announcements, New American Poetry Prize Tagged With: Janine Certo

Nick White

2020 New American Fiction Prize

January 2, 2020

Winner receives a publication contract, including a $1,500 advance, 25 author’s copies, and promotional support.

Deadline: June 15, 2020

Filed Under: Contests, New American Fiction Prize Tagged With: Nick White

Corey Vanlandingham

2020 New American Poetry Prize

January 2, 2020

The winner will receive a publication contract that includes a $1,200 advance, promotional support, 25 author’s copies, and a discount on future copies.

Extended deadline: February 1, 2020

Filed Under: Contests, New American Poetry Prize

Winner of 2019 New American Fiction Prize: Amy Neswald

December 10, 2019

We’re excited to announce that Judith Claire Mitchell has selected I Know You Love Me, Too, by Amy Neswald of Farmington, Maine, to receive the 2019 New American Fiction Prize! Amy is a fiction writer and independent filmmaker.

Filed Under: Announcements Tagged With: Amy Neswald, Emily Franklin, Glen Allen, Judith Claire Mitchell, Shannon Kernaghan, Tim Conrad

Emily Mohn-Slate

Winner of 2019 New American Poetry Prize

December 1, 2019

We’re excited to announce that Sara Gelston has selected Emily Mohn-Slate’s collection The Falls to receive the 2019 New American Poetry Prize! Emily is the author of FEED, which won the 2018 Keystone Chapbook Prize (Seven Kitchens Press).

Filed Under: Announcements Tagged With: Caroline Crew, Donald Platt, Emily Mohn-Slate, Karina Borowicz, Nicholas Molbert, Philip Belcher, Reese Conner, Sara Gelston

Submissions Now Closed for 2019 New American Fiction Prize

November 10, 2019

Submissions for the 2019 New American Fiction Prize are closed and the reading committee is hard at work. Winner will receive $1,200, publication, and book promotion.

Filed Under: Announcements Tagged With: Judith Claire Mitchell

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2024 NEW AMERICAN POETRY PRIZE: FINAL JUDGE NIKKI WALLSCHLAEGER

Submissions for the 2024 New American Poetry Prize will open September 1, 2023. The winning manuscript will be published and its author will receive $1500, promotional support, and 25 author copies. Manuscripts should be at least 48 pages, but there is no maximum length. All forms and styles of poetry are welcome. DEADLINE: January 15,[Read More]

Maya Jewell Zeller

Maya Jewell Zeller wins the 2022 New American Poetry Prize

We’re pleased to announce that Eduardo Corral has selected out takes/ glove box by Maya Jewell Zeller of Spokane, Washington, to receive the 2022 New American Poetry Prize! Maya will receive $1,500 and out takes/ glove box is tentatively slated for publication in October 2023. Maya is the author of the interdisciplinary collaboration (with visual[Read More]

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