New Rivers Press

04/17/2023

The newest episode of the New Rivers Press podcast features NRP intern & MSUM student Blake Cipperly interviewing Kathryn Kulpa about her chapbook Cooking Tips for the Demon-Haunted, due out May 2023! Enjoy!
https://soundcloud.com/newriverspress/cooking-tips-for-the-demon-haunted-an-interview-with-kathryn-kulpa?si=990dc16bb7d0472793413e1239cef110&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

04/04/2023

Last weekend marked the first birthday for Monologue of Fire by Samuel Ugbechie. Happy Pub Day plus a year! Of our most recent MVP in poetry winner, Adeeko Ibukun says: “Samuel leads in contemporary Nigerian poetry with a burst of songs that are not only genuine and ignited but also illuminate tenderly the many intricate layers of being human. His is an imagination attuned with nature, bearing for us a robust room to reconsider different elements of human emotions he digs through the richness of life’s ordinariness.” Get your hands on this magnificent collection here: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780898234053/monologue-of-fire.aspx?src=NEWR

03/30/2023

This weekend marks the first birthday for Annette C. Boehm’s The Apidictor Tapes. Happy one year since pub day! Of this stellar collection, Rebecca Morgan Frank says: “From an elegiac ‘translation’ of the Narwhal, to sharp-witted interrogations of social cues, to poems that interrogate an era of school shootings, drones, and robots, the poems and personae of The Apidictor Tapes range and explode from their beautiful concision. Annette C. Boehm is an extraordinary poet whose imagination and lyrical control are brought in gorgeous tension through crystalline images and vital turns. Each poem in this collection is a surprise, an arrow, an angled truth.” Celebrate with us and pick up your copy here: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780898234060/the-apidictor-tapes.aspx?src=NEWR

03/09/2023

We're beyond excited to see our newest anthology, Unbound: Composing Home, amongst the finalists for the Foreword Reviews INDIES Awards in the Anthologies (General) category! Congrats to all the finalists named and to all of our authors featured in the collection, and to editor Nayt Rundquist! We're going to be biting our nails for months waiting for the winners to be announced.

Special thanks to MSUM students Angela Konz, Brenna Brastad, Ivon Diaz-Perez, Amber Finneseth, Shaina Garman, and Cheyenne Musolf and faculty/staff members Kevin Carollo, Travis Dolence, and Trista Conzemius!

Check the full list of finalists here: https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/finalists/2022/anthologies-1/

03/07/2023

“Sophia Liu’s There Is No Happy Ending is a dazzling collection that takes creative and masterful risks in language, revealing the c omplex process of coming to know one’s self intimately in the chaos of a racist and sexist society. Throughout, there is a distinctly authentic voice that remains vulnerable yet resolute as it carries the reader from page to page. Contextualizing contemporary Communist China’s impact on the global community and the individuals descended from it, the chapbook compels readers to negate preconceived notions about the Asian American and femme-identified person via a series of significant narrative reconstructions related to the Chinese Zodiac, Greek mythology, and linear time. Even more exciting, the ekphrastic section is a series of intimate reflections and cultural criticisms that elevate the poignancy of the important photos. If a chapbook is a preview of what we can soon expect from an emerging author—consider me fully invested!”
—Faylita Hicks

Look for There is No Happy Ending in May!

03/02/2023

Our newest episode of the New Rivers Press podcast features NRP intern & MSUM student Ellie Eggl interviewing Sophia Liu about her chapbook There is No Happy Ending, due out in May 2023! Enjoy!

Intern Ellie Eggl interviews poet Sophia Liu about her forthcoming collection of poetry, There is No Happy Ending.

03/01/2023

Honored and excited to see two NRP books on the CLMP reading list for Women's History Month! We Are No Longer Babaylan by Elsa Valmidiano & Erin Slaughter's I Will Tell This Story to the Sun Until You Remember That You Are the Sun. Check out these books and all the other fantastic titles below!

For Women’s History Month, observed annually during the month of March, we asked our members—independent presses, literary journals, and others—to share with us some of the books and magazines they recommend reading in celebration.   Fiction   A Noble Cunning: The Countess and the Tower by P...

02/28/2023

Revealing the cover for the first of our two upcoming chapbooks, There is No Happy Ending by Sophia Liu!

“In this explosive chapbook, Sophia Liu charts maternal lineage: here is a speaker ‘not killed at infancy’ who comes from ‘women who vivisected love / from lychee seeds,’ who will tell her daughter ‘to trust the world / through an aperture.’ These lyric and visual poems sear not only against the aggression and abrasions of the American dream, but of the Motherland, China; they tell the truth in raw, glinting honesty.
—Diana Khoi Nguyen

Cover designed by MSUM student Rachel Anderson.
Due out May 2023

02/13/2023

We're so excited to see NRP author Artress Bethany White (Survivor's Guilt: Essays on Race and American Identity, Unbound: Composing Home) on Writer Mother Monster podcast. It's a great show and definitely worth the listen. Check it out!

11/28/2022

Wonderful writeup about our upcoming events in the Forum this morning! Please, join us in celebrating our newest anthology! Hope to see you this week!

“I think of ‘Unbound’ as an art gallery or a mix-tape, a collage of experiences and ruminations on the idea of home and how each author I've included thinks about and experiences the notion," writes New Rivers Press Managing Editor Nayt Rundquist.

11/03/2022

Some fantastic books on this list for Native American Heritage Month (including Natanya Pulley's With Teeth). Check it out for some great reads!

For Native American Heritage Month, observed annually during the month of November, we asked our members—independent presses, literary journals, and others—to share with us some of the books and magazines they recommend reading in celebration.   Literary Magazines “surrender, no, siren” by ...

10/28/2022

Curated and co-hosted by New Rivers author Beaudelaine Pierre (You May Have the Suitcase Now, Unbound), the International Writing Program is celebrating International Creole Day with a reading from some fantastic authors! Check it out on their page!

TONIGHT (Friday, 10/28) at 6 PM CDT, join IWP in celebrating International Creole Day with a reading by Creole writers from Haiti, Jamaica, Canada, the U.S., and more. It's all going to happen live on this page. This event is curated and cohosted by journalist, scholar, and novelist Beaudelaine Pierre, and will also be cohosted by IWP Director Christopher Merrill. More info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/3382735101955685

10/11/2022

Counting down the days until Rain Taxi Review's Twin Cities Book Fest! Get your hands on all of our newest publications, or chat with some of your favorite NRP authors when they're signing at our table (table 308)! Either way, we can't wait to say hi. See you October 15!

10/04/2022

Happy pub day to our newest anthology, Unbound: Composing Home! Grab your copy from Small Press Distribution here https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780898234152/unbound-composing-home.aspx?src=NEWR or find us at Rain Taxi Review Twin Cities Book Fest on October 15!

Unbound: Composing Home Twenty-one writers reflect on the concept of home and its polyvalent meanings. "As my obsession with narratives bloomed & I shifted into my role as managing editor at New Rivers, I realize that I built another family here—a new...

09/30/2022

An air plant, a Miyazaki classic, and one of the handful of Ken Liu short stories that made anthology editor Nayt Rundquist weep their face off walk into a book and somehow become embroiled in their introduction/first essay in Unbound: Composing Home, due out on New Rivers Press October 4, 2022! Find out just how all those pieces mix together with a bunch of other things to kick off this anthology of essays and poems from a bunch of wildly talented writers all thinking and writing about home.

Get your copy Small Press Distribution here: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780898234152/unbound-composing-home.aspx?src=NEWR or find us at the Twin Cities Book Fest on October 15!

09/29/2022

We’re happy to announce the winners of our Chapbook Contest! Congrats to Kathryn Kulpa for “Cooking Tips for the Demon-Haunted and Other Stories” & Sophia Liu for “There is No Happy Ending”! Thank you to all the finalists and to everyone who submitted!
https://www.newriverspress.com/chapbook-contest-winners/

09/16/2022

We can't wait for this year! Come find us and these amazing books (and other equally fantastic titles) at our table! Rain Taxi Review

09/09/2022

The editors at New Rivers Press are excited to announce the finalists for the New Rivers Press Chapbook competition! Check the album in our photos, or the link below to see all the authors.

From here, the manuscripts will be handed to the students in our Practicum in Publishing class at Minnesota State University Moorhead to make the final decision. Stay tuned for the announcement of the winner(s) at the end of the month!

-La Bamba by Ryan Rivas
-Cooking Tips for the Demon Possessed by Kathryn Kulpa
-The Divine in You by Reshmi Hebbar
-fields drawn from subtle arrows by Ceridwen Hall
-Instar by Erika Kielsgard
-There is No Happy Ending by Sophia Liu
-Tiny Creatures by Eliezra Schaffzin
-a woman made entirely of air by Romana Iorga

https://www.newriverspress.com/chapbook-contest-finalists/

The editors at New Rivers Press are excited to announce the finalists for the New Rivers Press Chapbook competition! From here, the manuscripts will be handed to the students in our Practicum in Publishing class at Minnesota State University Moorhead to make the final decision. Stay tuned for the an...