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PRE-ORDER: 12 Oxen Under the Sea: Stories
by Craig Bernardini

April 30, 2025

PRE-ORDER 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[Read More]

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Michelle Alexander

New American Poetry Prize Winner:
Michelle Alexander’s A Stone’s Throw from Cray

February 28, 2025

Pre-Order Winter 2025 Launch Date: March 1, 2026 ISBN:978-1-941561-43-0 Paperback  |  5.25″ X 8.0″ Winner of the 2024 New American Poetry Prize, Michelle Alexander’s collection A Stone’s Throw from Cray will launch on March 1, 2026, and will be available for pre-order at Bookshop.org this winter. Every purchase at Bookshop.org financially supports independent bookstores. Michelle[Read More]

Filed Under: Announcements, New American Poetry Prize, Pre-Order Tagged With: Michelle Alexander, poetry

2025 New American Fiction Prize: Final Judge Clancy Martin

February 18, 2025

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[Read More]

Filed Under: Announcements, Contests, New American Fiction Prize Tagged With: Clancy Martin

Sara Eliza Johnson

2025 New American Poetry Prize: EXTENDED DEADLINE February 3!

January 12, 2025

The 2025 New American Poetry Prize is open for submissions starting September 1, 2024. EXTENDED DEADLINE: February 3, 2025. 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[Read More]

Filed Under: Announcements, Contests, New American Poetry Prize Tagged With: Sara Eliza Johnson

E-Book Editions Available Soon!

August 22, 2024

New American Press will soon release a series of recent titles as ebooks to be distributed at Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Nobles, and all other major ebook retailers. The first titles in the ebook series will include Joan Leegant’s Displaced Persons, Maya Jewell Zeller’s out takes/ glove box, Maija Mäkinen’s The Ghosts of Other[Read More]

Filed Under: Announcements, New American Fiction Prize, New American Poetry Prize Tagged With: Joan Leegant, Maija Mäkinen, Megan Merchant, Sara Fetherolf

2024 New American Fiction Prize: EXTENDED DEADLINE JULY 1

April 1, 2024

Submissions for the 2024 New American Fiction Prize are now open. Winner will receive a contract including a $1500, publication, twenty-five copies, and promotional support. EXTENDED DEADLINE: JULY 1, 2024. 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[Read More]

Filed Under: Announcements, Contests, New American Fiction Prize Tagged With: Kalani Pickhart

PRE-ORDER: Displaced Persons: Stories
by Joan Leegant

March 13, 2024

Set half in Israel and half in the States, the stories in this prize-winning collection explore the experience of exile, belonging, and what it means to call a place home. A visiting professor from Boston forms an unlikely bond with an Israeli born in Iraq. Two teenage tourists are startled out of their naiveté in a restaurant in Jerusalem’s Old City. A gifted yeshiva student spiraling into mental illness takes refuge in the poetry of Walt Whitman. An aged widower returns after sixty years to the Bronx neighborhood of his youth to make amends with a first love he abandoned to go to prison. Shimmering with insight and compassion, Displaced Persons is a profound, exquisite collection that illuminates pivotal moments of transition, longing, and hope.

Filed Under: Announcements, New American Fiction Prize, Pre-Order Tagged With: Joan Leegant

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

New American Fiction Prize Winner:
Craig Bernardini’s Twelve Oxen Under the Sea

March 12, 2024

Winner Announcement Launch Date: 2025 ISBN: 9781941561348 Paperback  |  5.25″ X 8.0″ Winner of the 2023 New American Fiction Prize, Craig Bernardini’s new collection Twelve Oxen Under the Sea will be released in 2025. Pre-orders will be available at Bookshop.org. Every purchase at Bookshop.org financially supports independent bookstores. Craig Bernardini’s stories and essays have appeared[Read More]

Filed Under: Announcements, New American Fiction Prize, Pre-Order Tagged With: Craig Bernardini

Nikki Wallschlaeger

2024 New American Poetry Prize: EXTENDED DEADLINE February 16

January 23, 2024

EXTENDED DEADLINE for the 2024 New American Poetry Prize: FEBRUARY 16. 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. We read manuscripts blind, so[Read More]

Filed Under: Announcements, Contests, New American Poetry Prize Tagged With: nikki wallschlaeger

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2025 New American Fiction Prize: Final Judge Clancy Martin

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[Read More]

Sara Eliza Johnson

2025 New American Poetry Prize: EXTENDED DEADLINE February 3!

The 2025 New American Poetry Prize is open for submissions starting September 1, 2024. EXTENDED DEADLINE: February 3, 2025. 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[Read More]

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