Welcome to NEW AMERICAN PRESS
We like poetry, fiction, drama, nonfiction, and some things that defy categorization. But ultimately we want what any reader wants: to be dazzled. To be reminded why we began reading in the first place. We like to laugh as much as we like to have our guts torn out. Milan Kundera tells us that the function of the novel is to open a space for experimentation with alternate selves. C. S. Lewis says that literature not only describes reality but adds to it. Salman Rushdie believes that literature plumbs the highest and lowest places in human society and the human spirit. New American Press aspires to publish literature that achieves these goals, whether that literature is quirky or somber, darkly funny or zanily experimental, traditional or iconoclastic.
Our spring chapbook contest, to be judged by Kathy Fagan, is accepting submissions until May 15, 2009. Click here for details.
We also plan to launch our online magazine, Mayday, on May 1, 2009. It will contain a broad sampling of poetry, microfiction, reviews, translations, and interviews, along with a featured graphic artist in each issue. Click here for more details.
