Contests


Chapbooks

New American Press runs a chapbook contest series, accepting submissions in all genres. Past winners include Steve Daveport, Ed Frankel, Renee Ashley, and Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán. We pride ourselves on publishing elegant, full-color, perfect-bound chapbooks. Each contest is judged by an established author. Past judges have included Dan Beachy-Quick, Fred Chappell, and David R. Slavitt.


Full-length books

Beginning in 2010, we will 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). This contest is open to first-time and established authors alike. The winning manuscript will be published and its author will receive $1000 plus 25 copies of the book as well as a discount on further copies. Our inaugural contest will be judged by award-winning author Lee K. Abbott.

updates

We are pleased to announce the first annual New American Fiction Prize for a full-length work. Click here for details.

The 2009 summer chapbook contest, to be judged by award-winning poet and novelist Kelly Cherry, is closed. We will post the results as soon as we have Ms. Cherry's decision.

Ed Frankel's People of the Air, winner of the 2008 summer chapbook competition, is now available for order at Amazon.

We are pleased to announce that final judge Kathy Fagan has named Renee Ashley's manuscript, The Verbs of Desiring, the winner of the spring 2009 chapbook contest. It should be available for order in winter 2009/10.

Andy Frazee's chapbook, That the World Should Never Again Be Destroyed by Flood, and Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán's collection of poems, Antes y después del Bronx: Lenapehoking, will both be available in winter 2009/10.

Thomas E. Kennedy, author of Riding the Dog: A Look Back at America (New American 2008), will release the first novel of his Copenhagan Quartet with Bloomsbury USA in March 2010.