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New American Press [1]

Basic Information
Address: 
P.O. Box 1094
Zip / Postal Code: 
53024
Submission Guidelines: 
https://newamericanpress.com/contests [2]
City: 
Grafton
Website: 
https://NewAmericanPress.com [3]
Logo or Cover Image (Choose a file, then click upload.): 
State: 
Wisconsin
Country: 
United States
Contact Information
Contact Title: 
Executive Director
Contact First Name: 
David
Bowen
Contact E-mail: 
Details
Genres Published: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation
Publishes Through Contests Only: 
No
Reading Periods: 
Monday, September 15, 2025 to Thursday, January 15, 2026
Saturday, February 15, 2025 to Sunday, June 15, 2025
Response Time: 
Greater than 6 months
Book Types: 
Novella
Short story collections
Essay collections
Novel
Memoir
Poetry collections
Formats: 
Paperback
Charges Reading Fee: 
Yes
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
No
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
Yes
Distributors: 
Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Adlibris, Blackwell, Amazon, Powells, Barnes & Noble
Titles per Year: 
1 to 5
Editorial Focus: 

New American Press is an independent literary publisher committed to bringing readers the best in contemporary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translations from across the United States and around the world. They release a new anthology of Midwestern writing each year and annually award a New American Fiction Prize and New American Poetry Prize for full-length manuscripts in fiction and poetry.

Representative Authors: 

Hanif Abdurraqib, David Armstrong, Ruth Awad, Martyna Buliżańska, Kelly Cherry, Paul Crenshaw, Michael Czyzniejewski, Kathy Fagan, Gina Frangello, Kit Frick, Wayne Harrison, Micah Dean Hicks, T. R. Hummer, Alden Jones, Jesse Lee Kercheval, David Kirby, Marina Mularz, John McNally, Paul Nemser, Amy Neswald, Rita Mae Reese, Noley Reid, Brittney Scott, David R. Slavitt, Rachel Swearingen, Lee Upton

Publishing type: 
online and print [4]
Subgenres: 
Autobiography/Memoir [5]
Cross-genre [6]
Flash Fiction [7]
Literary Fiction [8]
Narrative Nonfiction [9]
Political [10]
Prose Poetry [11]
Translation [12]

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/small_presses/new_american_press

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/small_presses/new_american_press [2] https://newamericanpress.com/contests [3] https://NewAmericanPress.com [4] https://www.pw.org/category/publishing_type/online_and_print [5] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/autobiographymemoir [6] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/crossgenre [7] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/flash_fiction [8] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/literary_fiction [9] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/narrative_nonfiction [10] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/political [11] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/prose_poetry [12] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/translation