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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.

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New American Press at AWP 2022

March 1, 2022

New American Press will host a reading event at the Philadelphia Center for Architecture and Design on Thursday, March 24, from 5:30pm until 10:00pm. The event will be held in conjunction with the annual conference of the Association of Writers and Writing Conferences. Entry and refreshments are free. We will celebrate the launch of Erica[Read More]

Filed Under: Announcements, Events, Media, New American Fiction Prize, New American Poetry Prize

Weike Wang

2022 New American Fiction Prize: Final Judge Weike Wang

February 15, 2022

Submissions for the 2022 New American Fiction Prize are open. Winner will receive a contract including a $1,500 advance, publication, twenty-five copies, and promotional support. Deadline is June 15, 2022. 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: Weike Wang

Maija Mäkinen

Maija Mäkinen wins 2021 New American Fiction Prize

January 28, 2022

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]

Filed Under: Announcements, Contests, New American Fiction Prize Tagged With: Maija Mäkinen

Erica Plouffe Lazure’s PROOF OF ME to Launch March 24

November 30, 2021

“Erica Plouffe Lazure’s stories are downright combustible: Proof of Me begins, quite literally, with a bang, and the intensity never wavers.” — NICK WHITE, author of Sweet & Low and How to Survive a Summer “Every sentence of Lazure’s prose is stamped with authority and confidence.” — AIMEE BENDER, author of The Butterfly Lampshade “Put[Read More]

Filed Under: New American Fiction Prize Tagged With: Erica Plouffe Lazure

2021 New American Fiction Prize: Final Judge Kristen Arnett

May 26, 2021

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.

Filed Under: Announcements, Contests, New American Fiction Prize Tagged With: Kristen Arnett

Winner of 2020 New American Fiction Prize: Erica Plouffe Lazure

May 30, 2020

We’re pleased to announce that Nick White has selected Proof of Me and Other Stories by Erica Plouffe Lazure of Exeter, New Hampshire,, to receive the 2020 New American Fiction Prize!

Filed Under: Announcements, New American Fiction Prize Tagged With: Erica Plouffe Lazure

Nick White

2020 New American Fiction Prize

January 2, 2020

Winner receives a publication contract, including a $1,500 advance, 25 author’s copies, and promotional support.

Deadline: June 15, 2020

Filed Under: Contests, New American Fiction Prize Tagged With: Nick White

2019 New American Fiction Prize

June 1, 2019

Winner receives a publication contract, including a $1,200 advance, 25 author’s copies, and promotional support.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: JUNE 30, 2019.

Filed Under: Contests, New American Fiction Prize Tagged With: Judith Claire Mitchell

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Weike Wang

2022 New American Fiction Prize: Final Judge Weike Wang

Submissions for the 2022 New American Fiction Prize are open. Winner will receive a contract including a $1,500 advance, publication, twenty-five copies, and promotional support. Deadline is June 15, 2022. 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]

Sara Fetherolf

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]

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