New American Press

19/06/2025

We invite applications for open positions until July 11, 2025. We will be inviting candidates for interviews on a rolling basis as we identify qualified applicants: https://newamericanpress.com/openpositions/

11/06/2025

EXTENDED DEADLINE: The 2025 New American Fiction Prize will accept submissions through Tuesday, JULY 15, 2025.

Winner receives $1500, a publication contract, and promotional support. All full-length fiction manuscripts are welcome, including story collections, novels, novellas, collections of novellas, flash fiction collections, novels in verse, and other hybrid forms.

CLANCY MARTIN, author of How to Sell: A Novel and Travels in Central America, will serve as final judge. Martin's essays and short fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Atlantic, VICE, and elsewhere. Martin teaches at the University of Missouri in Kansas City and Ashoka University.

For more info:
https://newamericanpress.submittable.com/submit

The winning manuscript will be published and its author will receive a publication contract including $1,500 and 25 copies. Manuscripts should be at least 100 pages, but there is no maximum length. All forms and styles of full-length fiction manuscripts are welcome, including story collections, nove...

31/01/2025

We are pleased to announce that Nikki Wallschlaeger has selected MICHELLE ALEXANDER's manuscript "A Stone's Throw from Cray" to receive the 2024 New American Poetry Prize! Ms. Alexander will receive $1500 and her book is scheduled for release in fall 2025.

The 2025 New American Poetry Prize has extended its submission deadline through February 3. Final judge will be Sara Eliza Johnson. Click below for more details!

https://newamericanpress.submittable.com/submit/303286/2025-new-american-poetry-prize

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15/01/2025

EXTENDED DEADLINE: The 2025 NEW AMERICAN POETRY PRIZE will accept submissions through Monday, FEBRUARY 3.

Winner receives $1500, a publication contract, and promotional support. All full-length poetry manuscripts are welcome, including collections and hybrid forms.

SARA ELIZA JOHNSON, author of BONE MAP (Milkweed, 2014) and V***R (Milkweed, 2022), will serve as final judge.

For more info:
https://newamericanpress.submittable.com/submit

27/12/2024

The New American Poetry Prize is open for submissions through January 15, 2025!

The winning book manuscript will be published and its author will receive $1500, promotional support, and 25 author copies. Learn more: https://newamericanpress.submittable.com/submit

Final judge this year is Sara Eliza Johnson, whose debut collection, Bone Map, was selected for the 2013 National Poetry Series. Her second book of poetry, V***r, was released by Milkweed in 2022. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and the VCCA, among other honors. She is currently an associate professor at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

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27/12/2024

The New American Poetry Prize is open for submissions through January 15, 2025! The winning book manuscript will be published and its author will receive $1500, promotional support, and 25 author copies.

Learn more: https://newamericanpress.submittable.com/submit

Final judge this year is Sara Eliza Johnson, whose debut collection, Bone Map, was selected for the 2013 National Poetry Series. Her second book of poetry, V***r, was released by Milkweed in 2022. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and the VCCA, among other honors. She is currently an associate professor at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

27/12/2024

The New American Poetry Prize is open for submissions through January 15, 2025! https://newamericanpress.submittable.com/submit

Final judge this year is Sara Eliza Johnson, whose debut collection, Bone Map, was selected for the 2013 National Poetry Series. Her second book, V***r, was released by Milkweed in 2022. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and the VCCA, among other honors. She is currently an associate professor at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

03/11/2024

The DMQ Virtual Salon reading of "Hortensia, in winter," by Megan Merchant is up! Check it out here:

Begun during the pandemic shut-downs, our monthly reading series continues to support recent poetry book releases. We’re proud to present the 2024 DMQ Virtual Salon.Enjoy these readings, then go buy some books! —scroll down for Previous readings—

03/11/2024

The "history is personal."

New review from Megan Merchant's newest book, "Hortensia, in winter" about the focus of real people in her poems!

Read the full review here:

In "Hortensia, in winter," Megan Merchant addresses her poems to an ancestor, fusing her own life with that of her pioneer relative.

17/10/2024

Listen to our Poetry Prize winner Megan Merchant read from HORTENSIA, IN WINTER for the first time! Hosted by A Hundred Pitchers of Honey and reading with KB Brookins, Megan (starting at 35:31) also talks about her inspiration for the book.

Purchase here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/hortensia-in-winter-megan-merchant/21866714?ean=9781941561331

October Reading with KB Brookins and Megan Merchant!

08/10/2024

Happy Pub Day to Megan Merchant! Help our author celebrate by purchasing a copy of HORTENSIA, IN WINTER

Hortensia, in winter transports readers on a powerful journey through the lives of women bound by blood, history, and the weight of silence. Megan Merchant's titular Hortensia, an ancestor from a Mormon lineage, becomes both a ghostly presence and a focal point for poems that ache with longing, reve...

27/09/2024

Great conversation with Megan Merchant on Table for Deuce. Listen for a sneak peek of some poems from her forthcoming poetry collection HORTENSIA, IN WINTER. Less than a week until Pub Day (10/1)!!

Season 3 kicks off with special guest, Megan Merchant! Kate, Michael and Megan discuss poetry, authenticity, and Merchant's new collection, Hortensia, In Win...