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Submissions for the 2019 New American Fiction Prize are closed and the reading committee is hard at work. Winner will receive $1,200, publication, and book promotion. Final judge for the 2019 contest is Judith Claire Mitchell, author of the novels The Last Day of the War (Penguin Random House, 2005) and A Reunion of Ghosts (HarperCollins, 2015).