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.