New American Press

an independent literary publisher

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.

2023 New American Fiction Prize: Final Judge Gabriel Bump

Submissions for the 2023 New American Fiction Prize will open February 15. Winner will receive a contract including a $1,500 advance, publication, twenty-five copies, and promotional support. Deadline is June 15, 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[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]

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]

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

“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]