Contests


 Full-length books

We offer the New American Fiction Prize for a full-length work of fiction (a collection of stories and/or novellas, a single novella, or a novel) and the New American Poetry Prize for a full-length collection of poems. Current contest information is here. The fiction contest is in the spring each year and the poetry contest in the fall. Both contests are open to first-time and established authors alike. The winning author will receive a publication contract, including $1000 in prize monies, 15% royalties on sales, and 25 copies of the book, as well as a discount on future copies.

 

Chapbooks

New American Press runs a chapbook contest series that accepts submissions in all genres, and we pride ourselves on publishing elegant, full-color, perfect-bound chapbooks. The series is discontinued for the remainder of 2010, but we hope to reinstate it sometime in 2011. Past winners include Steve Daveport, Ed Frankel, Renee Ashley, Margaret Rabb, and Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán. Past judges have included Dan Beachy-Quick, Fred Chappell, and David R. Slavitt.

updates

The submission period for the 2011 New American Poetry Prize is now open. Final judge is National Book Award finalist Andrew Hudgins.

Craig Davis's story collection, Ramshackle Wonderlands, was chosen by Lee K. Abbott to receive the 2010 New American Fiction Prize. It will be available in early 2012.

We are pleased to announce that T. R. Hummer has named Stephen Haven's The Last Sacred Place in North America winner of the 2010 New American Poetry Prize. Tentative release date is early 2012.

Peter Filkins's collection Augustine's Vision is now available, along with Thomas E. Kennedy's novel-in-essays Last Night My Bed a Boat of Whiskey Going Down and Duff Brenna's novel The Holy Book of the Beard.