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2007 Titles
Tender, Wild Things
Wins Midwest Book Award
Signaling for Rescue Long-Listed for Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award has announced that Marianne Herrmann's Signaling for Rescue has been long-listed for the award. “Intelligent, even brilliant, but never merely cerebral, these stories pulse with life. If you have ever wondered how life would appear without the dodges and filters we bring to our interactions, if you have ever yearned for an understanding broad and deep enough to bless and celebrate people’s misaimed, tangled, confused yet determined attempts to love, then read these vivid, luminous, heartbreaking stories.” Richard Hoffman, author of Half the House and Gold Star Road
John Chattin
Cars Go Fast, stories
Many Voices Project, 2007
Marianne Herrmann
Signaling For Rescue, short stories
Many Voices Project, 2007.
Diane Jarvenpa
The Tender Wild Things, poems
Many Voices Project, 2007.
Holaday Mason
Towards the Forest, poems
New American Poetry Series, 2007.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
2007 MVP Winners
Fallibility, poems
Elizabeth Oness (Houston, MN)
Eye, Thus Precious, poems
Maya Pindyck (Brooklyn, NY)
Finalist Poetry Judge: Michael Hettich
When Love Was Clean Underwear (novel)
Susan Barr-Toman (Philadelphia, PA)
Finalist Prose Judge: Ann Hood
The winning titles will be published in Fall 2009. We want to thank all who entered the competition. Scroll down for links to guidelines for the 2008 MVP Competition. Mss. may be submitted from September 15 to November 1, 2008.
Happy Birthday, New Rivers Press
Over 320 books later, New Rivers, now a non-profit teaching press based since 2001 at Minnesota State University Moorhead, has remained true to Bill's original goal, to publish the best new literature in all genres and to advance the careers of new and emerging writers.
To that end, we will publish the following new books in October, one chosen by Poet Laureate Charles Simic and another by Katha Pollitt, the acclaimed Nation columnist and poet.
If you are able to afford it, please consider a birthday tax-deductible donation to the press to help us to continue advancing the careers of emerging writers.
MVP Judges: 2006
Charles Simic, poetry; Ron Rindo, prose
(Bend with the Knees, stories)
Benjamin Drevlow
Many Voices Project Winner, 2006
(Hollow Out, poems)
Kelsea Habecker
Many Voices Project Winner, 2006
(The Sound of It, poems)
Tim Nolan
Many Voices Project Winner, 2006
Other forthcoming 2008 titles:
(The River Road, stories)
Tricia Currans-Sheehan
American Fiction Series
(Slippery Men, essays)
Penelope Schwartz Robinson
winner of the Stonecoast Book Prize (see below)
To Sing Along the Way - 2007 Awards
• the 2007 Midwest Booksellers' Association Honor Award for Poetry;
• the 2007 WILLA Award for Poetry (Women Writing the West).
Commented one judge: “The chronological ordering and selection of so many poems with such a strong sense of place and history made me understand how women’s lives in Minnesota have changed over time and in what ways they remain the same, what is constant.”
Another judge wrote: “The editors mined the rich resources of Minnesota and published a collection of writing by insightful and eloquent women poets. To Sing Along the Way is a sonorous collection with a wide range of voices which will appeal to everyone.” The book is now in its third printing.
Congratulations to contributors and editors of this unique and groundbreaking anthology.
2008 MVP Deadlines
The distinguished competition since 1981 to find
new and emerging writers and advance their careers.
(An emerging writer is one who has not published more than two books with a commercial, university, or national small press.)
Submission period: Sept. 15 - Nov. 1, 2008.
The Poetry Prize is open to any U.S. citizen.
Two additional prizes (one prose, one any genre) are open to
legal residents of MN or New York City.
This year, due to decreased support from funders, there is a $20 entry fee for each ms. submitted.
The three winning titles will be published in
Fall 2010 by New Rivers Press and distributed nationally through
Consortium Book Sales and Distribution. Each winning author will
receive $1,000 and a standard book contract. For guidelines and more information, click here.
Fiction Judge: TBA
Poetry Judge: TBA
We are pleased to announce that Katha Pollitt, our finalist judge, has chosen Slippery Men, a collection of essays by Penelope Schwartz Robinson, as the winner of the first Stonecoast Book Prize, a search for a book-length manuscript in any genre by a new or emerging writer associated with the Stonecoast MFA program. The book will be published in Fall 2008. The other finalists were B. Goodjohn (The Winter House, poems), Kim Dana Kupperman (Teeth in the Wind, essays), Bruce Pratt (The Trash Detail, stories), and Jacob Strunk (And the War Came, a novel). For more information about the low-residency Stonecoast MFA, click here.
BROWSE BOOKS
Featured Web Pages:
Beth Alvarado
Not a Matter of Love, stories
Winner, 2005 Many Voices Project
Lisa Gill
Mortar & Pestle, poems
Winner, NEA 2007 Fellowship
Ed Bok Lee
Real Karaoke People, poems
MN Book Award Finalist
2007 Members' Choice Award,
2006 PEN/Beyond Margins
Award
Asian-American Writers (http://www.aaww.org)
Debra Marquart
The Hunger Bone, stories
Everything's a Verb, poems
Winner, PEN USA 2007
Creative Nonfiction Award
Purvi Shah
Terrain Tracks, poems
2007 Members' Choice Finalist,
Asian-American Writers (http://www.aaww.org)
Fiction