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Contests

The NEW AMERICAN FICTION PRIZE is awarded each year to a full-length fiction manuscript, such as a story collection, novel, novella(s), or something that blends forms, like a novel in verse. The winner receives $1,500 and a book contract, as well as 25 author's copies and promotional support. The submission period is usually February 15 - June 15, but please check individual contests for most updated deadlines.

The NEW AMERICAN POETRY PRIZEย is awarded each year to a full-length collection of poetry. The winner receives $1,500 and a book contract, as well as 25 author's copies and promotional support. The submission period is usually September 15 - January 15, but please check individual contests for most updated deadlines.

To submit to one of our contests, please access our convenient online submission manager, which saves paper and helps keep things organized.

For the history of each contest, see our list ofย Previous Winners. For general info, please see ourย Frequently Asked Questions.

Further questions can be directed to the editors.


 

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

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

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

Maya Jewell Zeller

Maya Jewell Zeller wins the 2022 New American Poetry Prize

February 7, 2023

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]

Filed Under: Announcements, Contests, New American Poetry Prize Tagged With: Maya Jewell Zeller

Jamaica Baldwin author photo

2023 New American Poetry Prize Submission Deadline Extended to February 15

January 9, 2023

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]

Filed Under: Announcements, Contests, New American Poetry Prize Tagged With: Jamaica Baldwin

2023 New American Fiction Prize final judge Gabriel Bump

2023 New American Fiction Prize: Final Judge Gabriel Bump

December 5, 2022

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]

Filed Under: Announcements, Contests, New American Fiction Prize Tagged With: Gabriel Bump

Jamaica Baldwin author photo

2023 NEW AMERICAN POETRY PRIZE: FINAL JUDGE JAMAICA BALDWIN

June 21, 2022

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]

Filed Under: Announcements, Contests, New American Poetry Prize Tagged With: Jamaica Baldwin

Gabriel Bump

2022 New American Fiction Prize: Final Judge Weike Wang

February 15, 2022

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]

Filed Under: Announcements, Contests, New American Fiction Prize Tagged With: Weike Wang

Sara Fetherolf author photo

Sara Fetherolf wins the 2021 New American Poetry Prize

January 28, 2022

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]

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

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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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