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]
Announcements
New American Fiction Prize Winner:
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]
2026 New American Poetry Prize: Extended Deadline (Final Judge Rick Barot)
The 2026 New American Poetry Prize has extended its submission deadline: EXTENDED DEADLINE: Tuesday, February 10, 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 are[Read More]
New American Poetry Prize Winner:
Nikki Ummel’s Swamp Elegies
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]
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: 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]
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]
