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New American Poetry Prize Winner:
Nikki Ummel’s Swamp Elegies

November 17, 2025

Winner Announcement Launch Date: 2026 Paperback  |  5.25″ X 8.0″ Winner of the 2025 New American Poetry Prize, Nikki Ummel’s new collection Swamp Elegies will be released in 2026. Pre-orders will be available at Bookshop.org. Every purchase at Bookshop.org financially supports independent bookstores. Nikki Ummel has been published by The Georgia Review, Black Lawrence Press, and[Read More]

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New American Fiction Prize Winner:
Thomas Kevin O’Rourke’s Buddha Wrestles Faust in a Field of Skulls and other stories

November 17, 2025

Winner Announcement Launch Date: August 1, 2026 ISBN: 9781941561423 Paperback  |  5.25″ X 8.0″ Winner of the 2024 New American Fiction Prize, Thomas Kevin O’Rourke’s new collection Buddha Wrestles Faust in a Field of Skulls and other stories will be released in 2026. Pre-orders will be available at Bookshop.org. Every purchase at Bookshop.org financially supports[Read More]

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ORDER NOW: 12 Oxen Under the Sea: Stories
by Craig Bernardini

April 30, 2025

AVAILABLE NOW Launch Date: June 1, 2025 ISBN: 9781941561348 Paperback  |  224pp  |  5.25″ X 8.0″ IN A SERIES OF SHARP AND POIGNANT NARRATIVES, New American Fiction Prize-winner Craig Bernardini’s thrilling new collection of stories delves into questions of spectatorship, alienation, and trauma as “rehearsals for the apocalypse.” Winner of the 2024 New American Fiction[Read More]

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New American Poetry Prize Winner:
Megan Merchant’s Hortensia, in winter

March 12, 2024

Winner of the 2023 New American Poetry Prize, Megan Merchant’s new collection Hortensia, in winter will launch on October 1, 2024, and will be available for pre-order at Bookshop.org this summer. Every purchase at Bookshop.org financially supports independent bookstores.

Filed Under: Announcements, New American Poetry Prize, Pre-Order Tagged With: Megan Merchant

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New American Fiction Prize Winner:
Pablo Baler’s novel Gilroy’s Gloryhole

Winner Announcement Launch Date: TBA ISBN: 9781941561447 Paperback  |  5.25″ X 8.0″ Winner of the 2025 New American Fiction Prize, Pablo Baler’s new novel Gilroy’s Gloryhole will be released in 2026. Pre-orders will be available at Bookshop.org. Every purchase at Bookshop.org financially supports independent bookstores. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and current resident of Los[Read More]

2026 New American Fiction Prize: Final Judge Keith Rosson

The 2026 New American Fiction Prize is open for submissions starting on February 2. Winner will receive a contract including a $1500, publication, twenty-five copies, and promotional support. The deadline is June 15, 2026. All full-length fiction manuscripts are welcome, including novels, novellas, collections of stories and/or novellas, novels in verse, linked collections, as well as[Read More]

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