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MVP Series: 2009 Competition
Bookmark HERE for guidelines to this national competition. We are screening submissions and will post news here when it becomes available. Thanks to all who submitted.
Finalist Prose Judge:
John Dufresne
Finalist Poetry Judge:
Tim Seibles
Tim Nolan MBA Finalist
NRP is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, and we are pleased to announce that The Sound of It, poems by Tim Nolan, has been chosen as a finalist in poetry for this year's Minnesota Book Awards. The Award ceremony was held in St. Paul on April 25.
Click HERE for a review of The Sound of It.
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Bill Truesdale, who founded NRP, would be proud. Despite a case of lead poisoning, he published 350 copies of Margaret Randall's collection, So Many Rooms Has a House But One Roof, in 1968. 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 and advance the careers of new and emerging writers.
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MVP Series: 2008 Winners
We are pleased to announce that the following books have been chosen for publication in 2010.
Mary Hoffman (Brooklyn, NY), At Home Anywhere, stories.
B. J. Best (West Bend, WI), Birds of Wisconsin, poems.
Stephanie Johnson (Duluth, MN), Kinesthesia, poems.
Leif Enger, finalist Fiction Judge;
Joyce Sutphen, finalist Poetry Judge.
American Fiction Prizes
We will also publish American Fiction, Volume Eleven: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers, edited by Kris Tsetsi, Bayard Godsave, and Bruce Pratt. Finalist Judge, Clint McCown.
We are pleased to announce winners for this year's American Fiction anthology.
First Prize: "Stickmen," by Andrew Gottlieb.
Second Prize: "Voyeuse," by Cary Groner.
Third Prize: "Souvenirs," by Aimee Loiselle.
Honorable Mentions: "Twenty Tales of Natural Disaster" by Helen Phillips, "Piano" by Terry Roueche, and "Section" by Gregory Williams.
Congratulations to all winners, honorable mentions, and other finalists whose work will appear in the anthology in Fall 2010.
First Prize: $1000
Second Prize: $500
Third Prize: $250
Finalist Judge: Clint McCown
Entry Fee: $12/story
Guidelines: click HERE.
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2009 MVP Deadlines
For guidelines and more information, click HERE.The Many Voices Project is the distinguished annual competition (since 1981) to find new and emerging writers. (An emerging writer has not published more than two books of creative writing with a commercial, university, or national small press.)
Submission period: Sept. 15 - Oct. 15, 2009.
This year, both the Prose Prize and the Poetry Prize are open to any U.S. citizen. There is a $20 entry fee for each ms. submitted.
The two winning titles will be published in Fall 2011 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.
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New Books October 2009
Fallibility, poems
Elizabeth Oness (Houston, MN)
"I am grateful for this beautiful book." Jeffrey Harrison
Friend Among Stones, poems
Maya Pindyck (Brooklyn, NY)
"The best advice re writing a poem is Emily Dickinson's: Tell the truth but tell it slant. Most poets try to do that, most of us fail. Maya Pindyck's poems very often find exactly the right slant, the right channel, the right wire, the right hypodermic--straight to the reader's heart!" Thomas Lux
When Love Was Clean Underwear, novel
Susan Barr-Toman (Philadelphia, PA)
“This novel captures the pulse of life—even when I put the book down and go about my day, I think about these characters. Barr-Toman writes with precision and wonderful humor about the human experience, and the need for forgiveness.” Elizabeth Cox
Click HERE to read first chapter.
Finalist Poetry Judge:
Michael Hettich
Finalist Prose Judge:
Ann Hood
Whiskey Heart (novel) by Rachel L. Coyne (Minnesota)
"Coyne understands the human heart - she knows all the dark corners, twisted by the heat and hurt of love, and she knows the odd paths back from ruin. I couldn't put it down." Jonis Agee
Minneapolis Star Tribune review
Interference and Other Stories by Richard Hoffman (Massachusetts)
"The stories in Interference are moving, wise, and bracingly unsentimental. Richard Hoffman writes about male sadness and vulnerability with unusual insight and tough-minded compassion." Tom Perrotta
Click here for MPR Midmorning interview with Ed Bok Lee, author of Real Karaoke People
Ronna Wineberg's Second Language was awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2009 Eric Hoffer Award for Books (for Excellence in Independent Publishing) in the category of Legacy Fiction (books that are more than two years old).