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.
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New American Poetry Prize Winner:
New American Fiction Prize Winner:
Craig Bernardini’s Twelve Oxen Under the Sea
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]
2024 New American Poetry Prize: EXTENDED DEADLINE February 16
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]
PRE-ORDER: The Ghosts of Other Immigrants: Stories
by Maija Mäkinen
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
New American Press at AWP 2023
New American Press will host a reading event at St. John’s Bar and Eatery on Thursday, March 9, beginning at 6:00pm. The event will be held in conjunction with the annual conference of the Association of Writers and Writing Conferences. Entry is free and open to the public. Cocktails and other refreshments are included. We will[Read More]
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]
Joan Leegant wins the 2022 New American Fiction Prize
We’re pleased to announce that Weike Wang has selected Displaced Persons: Stories by Joan Leegant of Newton, Massachusetts, to receive the 2022 New American Fiction Prize! Joan will receive $1,500 and Displaced Persons will launch on June 1, 2024. For her first book of stories, An Hour in Paradise: Stories, JOAN LEEGANT won the 2003 PEN/New England Book[Read More]
2023 New American Poetry Prize Submission Deadline Extended to February 15
The deadline for submissions to the 2023 New American Poetry Prize has been extended to February 15, 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[Read More]
2023 New American Fiction Prize: Final Judge Gabriel Bump
Submissions for the 2023 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, 2023. 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]
2023 NEW AMERICAN POETRY PRIZE: FINAL JUDGE JAMAICA BALDWIN
Submissions for the 2023 New American Poetry Prize will open September 1, 2022. 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. EXTENDED DEADLINE: February[Read More]
