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New American Fiction Prize

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.

PRE-ORDER: 12 Oxen Under the Sea: Stories
by Craig Bernardini

April 30, 2025

PRE-ORDER 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[Read More]

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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

E-Book Editions Available Soon!

August 22, 2024

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]

Filed Under: Announcements, New American Fiction Prize, New American Poetry Prize Tagged With: Joan Leegant, Maija Mäkinen, Megan Merchant, Sara Fetherolf

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

PRE-ORDER: Displaced Persons: Stories
by Joan Leegant

March 13, 2024

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.

Filed Under: Announcements, New American Fiction Prize, Pre-Order Tagged With: Joan Leegant

New American Fiction Prize Winner:
Craig Bernardini’s Twelve Oxen Under the Sea

March 12, 2024

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]

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2023 New American Fiction Prize final judge Gabriel Bump

2023 New American Fiction Prize Extended Deadline: July 1

June 14, 2023

The New American Fiction Prize, to be judged by Gabriel Bump, has extended the deadline to July 1, 2023. Winner will receive a contract including $1500, publication, twenty-five copies, and promotional support. 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[Read More]

Filed Under: New American Fiction Prize Tagged With: Gabriel Bump

The Ghosts of Other Immigrants front cover

PRE-ORDER: The Ghosts of Other Immigrants: Stories
by Maija Mäkinen

March 6, 2023

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.

PRE-ORDER NOW

Publish Date: June 06, 2023

Filed Under: Announcements, New American Fiction Prize, Pre-Order Tagged With: Maija Mäkinen

St. John's Bar and Eatery

New American Press at AWP 2023

March 6, 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]

Filed Under: Announcements, Events, Media, New American Fiction Prize, New American Poetry Prize Tagged With: Gabriella Graceffo, Maija Mäkinen, Maya Jewell Zeller, Sara Fetherolf

Joan Leegant wins the 2022 New American Fiction Prize

January 23, 2023

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]

Filed Under: Announcements, New American Fiction Prize Tagged With: Joan Leegant

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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]

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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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