GUIDELINES

A full description of submission guidelines for our current chapbook contest is here.

Although we have occasionally published submissions to our chapbook contests as full-lenth collections (most recently Thomas E. Kennedy's Riding the Dog), we do not accept unsolicited manuscripts at this time.

Our online magazine, MAYDAY, is currently accepting electronic submissions of poetry, microfiction, nonfiction, translations, and reviews. Click here for details.

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.