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 Poetry Prize Winner:
New American Fiction Prize Winner:
Thomas Kevin O’Rourke’s Buddha Wrestles Faust in a Field of Skulls and other stories
Winner Announcement Launch Date: 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 independent bookstores.[Read More]
2026 New American Poetry Prize (Final Judge Rick Barot)
The 2026 New American Poetry Prize is open for submissions starting September 1, 2025. DEADLINE: January 15, 2026. 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[Read More]
2025 New American Fiction Prize: EXTENDED DEADLINE JULY 15
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. EXTENDED DEADLINE: JULY 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[Read More]
ORDER NOW: 12 Oxen Under the Sea: Stories
by Craig Bernardini
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]
New American Poetry Prize Winner:
Michelle Alexander’s A Stone’s Throw from Cray
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]
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]
E-Book Editions Available Soon!
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]
2024 New American Fiction Prize: EXTENDED DEADLINE JULY 1
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]
PRE-ORDER: Displaced Persons: Stories
by Joan Leegant
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.
