SPRING 2009 CHAPBOOK CONTEST

We're pleased to announce our spring 2009 chapbook contest. Winner receives $250 and 25 copies (additional copies available at a 30 percent discount). The final judge will be editor of THE JOURNAL and award-winning poet Kathy Fagan. Her books include The Charm, Moving & St. Rage, and The Raft, a National Poetry Series selection.

Please submit 20-30 pages of your best writing (any genre) to:

Chapbook Contest
Attn: Okla Elliott
Ohio Wesleyan University
English Dept.
61 S. Sandusky St.
Delaware, OH 43015

We read manuscripts blind, so please include a separate cover sheet with your name, address, email, and phone number, being sure to exclude any identifying information from the manuscript itself.

Please include a check or money order (payable to "NEW AMERICAN PRESS") in the amount of $12 for each submission. Multiple submissions are fine.

Postmark deadline: May 15, 2009.

Further questions can be directed to David Bowen.

 

updates

New American talked up its authors and made some new friends at the AWP's recent annual conference--thanks for stopping by.

The spring 2009 chapbook contest, to be judged by Kathy Fagan, will accept submissions through May 15.

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 winter 2010.

Ed Frankel's People of the Air and Andy Frazee's That the World Should Never Again Be Destroyed by Flood, winners in the New American spring and fall 2008 chapbook contests respectively, will both be available in July.