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Previous Winners

NEW AMERICAN POETRY PRIZE

2022 …  TBA. Final judge: Eduardo C. Corral.

2021 …  Via Combusta, by Sara Fetherolf. Final judge: Quan Barry.

2020 …  Elixir, by Janine Certo. Final judge: Corey Van Landingham.

2019 …  The Falls, by Emily Mohn-Slate. Final judge: Sara Gelston.

2018 …  And Other Bodiless Powers, by Sarah Aronson. Final judge: Andrew Grace.

2017 …  A Small Rising Up in the Lungs, by Kit Frick. Final judge: Jesse Lee Kercheval.

2016 …  The Underneath, by Christopher Cokinos. Final judge: Gabriel Gudding.

2015 …  The Derelict Daughter, by Brittney Scott. Final judge: Maggie Smith.

2014 …  Levitation for Agnostics, by Arne Weingart. Final judge: Jillian Weise.

2013 …  The Drowning Room, by Damien Shuck. Final judge: David Kirby.

2012 …  Renamed 2013 to reflect year of award announcement.

2011 …  Taurus, by Paul Nemser. Final judge: Andrew Hudgins.

2010 …  The Last Sacred Place in North America, by Stephen Haven. Final judge: T. R. Hummer.


NEW AMERICAN FICTION PRIZE

2022 …  TBA. Final judge: Weike Wang.

2021 …  The Ghosts of Other Immigrants, by Maija Mäkinen. Final judge: Kristen Arnett.

2020 …  Proof of Me and Other Stories, by Erica Plouffe Lazure. Final judge: Nick White.

2019 …  I Know You Love Me, Too, by Amy Neswald. Final judge: Judith Claire Mitchell.

2018 …  How to Walk on Water and Other Stories, by Rachel Swearingen. Final judge: John McNally.

2017 …  If I Die in Ohio, by Seth Borgen. Final judge: Lori Ostlund.

2016 …  Welcome to Freedom Point, by Marina Mularz. Final judge: Gina Frangello.

2015 …  Wrench, by Wayne Harrison. Final judge: Larry Watson.

2014 …  Reiterations, by David Armstrong. Final judge: Noley Reid.

2013 …  Unaccompanied Minors, by Alden Jones. Final judge: Kyle Minor.

2012 …  Renamed 2013 to reflect year of award announcement.

2011 …  Electricity & Other Dreams, by Micah Dean Hicks. Final judge: Benjamin Percy.

2010 …  Ramshackle Wonderlands, by Craig Davis. Final judge: Lee K. Abbott.

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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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