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]
2025 New American Poetry Prize: Final Judge Sara Eliza Johnson
The 2025 New American Poetry Prize is open for submissions starting September 1, 2024. Deadline is January 15, 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]
2024 New American Fiction Prize: EXTENDED DEADLINE JULY 1
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]
New American Press at AWP 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]
The Derelict Daughter by Brittney Scott
Brittney Scott’s captivating new poetry collection THE DERELICT DAUGHTER is ready for your order!
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E-Book Editions Available Soon!
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[Read More]
2025 New American Poetry Prize: Final Judge Sara Eliza Johnson
The 2025 New American Poetry Prize is open for submissions starting September 1, 2024. Deadline is January 15, 2025. The winning manuscript will be published and its author will receive[Read More]
2024 New American Fiction Prize: EXTENDED DEADLINE JULY 1
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.[Read More]
PRE-ORDER: Displaced Persons: Stories
by Joan Leegant
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.
New American Poetry Prize Winner:
Megan Merchant’s Hortensia, in winter
Winner of the 2023 New American Poetry Prize, Megan Merchant’s new collection Hortensia, in winter will launch on October 1, 2024, and will be available for pre-order at Bookshop.org this summer. Every purchase at Bookshop.org financially supports independent bookstores.
New American Fiction Prize Winner:
Craig Bernardini’s Twelve Oxen Under the Sea
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[Read More]
