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]
Announcements
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]
2022 New American Fiction Prize: Final Judge Weike Wang
Submissions for the 2022 New American Fiction Prize are closed and the reading committee is hard at work. Winner will receive a contract including a $1,500 advance, publication, twenty-five copies, and promotional support. Extended deadline is July 1, 2022. All full-length fiction manuscripts are welcome, including novels, novellas, collections of stories and/or novellas, novels in[Read More]
Sara Fetherolf wins the 2021 New American Poetry Prize
We’re pleased to announce that Quan Barry has selected Via Combusta by Sara Fetherolf of Long Beach, CA, to receive the 2021 New American Poetry Prize! Sara is a poet, essayist, storyteller, and librettist, whose work has appeared in Muzzle, Indiana Review, The California Journal of Poetics, and Plath Profiles, among others. Their debut work[Read More]
Maija Mäkinen wins 2021 New American Fiction Prize
We’re pleased to announce that Kristen Arnett has selected THE GHOSTS OF OTHER IMMIGRANTS: STORIES by Maija Mäkinen of Brooklyn, NY, to receive the 2021 New American Fiction Prize! A Finnish-born writer and translator, Maija’s stories, essays, and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review; Short, Vigorous Roots (Ooligan Press); Porterhouse Review;[Read More]
2022 NEW AMERICAN POETRY PRIZE: FINAL JUDGE EDUARDO C. CORRAL
Submissions are now closed for the 2022 New American Poetry Prize. The winning manuscript will be published and its author will receive $1500, 25 copies, and promotional support. Manuscripts should be at least 48 pages, but there is no maximum length. All forms and styles of poetry are welcome. Extended deadline: February 14, 2022. We[Read More]
2021 New American Fiction Prize: Final Judge Kristen Arnett
Submissions for the 2021 New American Fiction Prize are open. DEADLINE: JUNE 30, 2021 Winner will receive a contract including a $1,500 advance, publication, and twenty-five copies. Final judge is Kristen Arnett.
2021 New American Poetry Prize: Final Judge Quan Barry
Submissions for the 2021 New American Poetry Prize are now closed. Winner will receive a contract including a $1,500 advance, publication, and twenty-five copies. Final judge is Quan Barry.
