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New Rivers Press at MSUM
1104 7th Ave. S. Moorhead, MN 56563 218.477.5870 nrp@mnstate.edu
Wayne Gudmundson Director
218.477.2296 gudmund@mnstate.edu
Alan Davis Senior Editor
218.477.4681 davisa@mnstate.edu
Donna Carlson Managing Editor
218.477.5870 carlsond@mnstate.edu
ABOUT US
New Rivers Press is a not for profit literary small press founded in 1968 by C.W. "Bill" Truesdale that has published over 320 books and is now a part of . Our dual mission is to publish enduring literature and provide academic learning opportunities for students. "Dakota is everywhere," wrote visionary poet Tom McGrath, who taught at MSUM. We honor his progressive spirit by publishing work with a strong sense of place that speaks to our troubled times with satyagraha (the truthforce), empathy, and aesthetic courage.
New Rivers Press is dedicated to publishing new, emerging and established writers from Minnesota, the Midwest and New York City, from the many Americas, and from elsewhere in the world.
Wayne Gudmundson in Mass Communications serves as Director. Alan Davis from the MFA and English programs serves as Senior Editor. Donna Carlson is Managing Editor, Allen Sheets from Art & Graphic Design is Design and Production Director,and other faculty and staff assist us in publishing beautiful books and marketing them. Current and backlist titles are available for booksellers through the Consortium, and for individuals from New Rivers or other online vendors, or at fine bookstores.
New Rivers Press at MSUM is a teaching press. Students work with professional faculty and staff. Classroom activities are part of the press as we teach the art and business of publishing. Students take classes, serve as interns and have the opportunity to earn a Certificate in Publishing. Publishing courses and internships are open to both undergraduates and to MFA students. MSUM students who have worked at New Rivers Press are prepared for additional internships or for careers in publishing and in other industries.
New Rivers Press is interested in books or book proposals. We publish new and emerging writers through our MVP Series, we are open to work of every character from single authors, and we are interested in continuing to publish anthologies and work in translation when resources allow.
Please consider a tax-deductible contribution to assist New Rivers Press. You can contribute to general operations, to a particular publication series, or to the service learning component. (NRP is integrated into the curricular workings of Minnesota State in Accounting, Art and Graphic Design, English, Marketing, Mass Communications, the MFA program, Promotions, Web Site Development and other areas.) For information about such contributions, contact Wayne Gudmundson, gudmund@mnstate.edu, at MSUM.
BROWSE BOOKS
2008 Titles: available October 1
Benjamin Drevlow
Bend with the Knees, stories
Many Voices Project, 2006
"These interlocking stories ... are harsh, raw, desperate, smart-ass, smooth, fast, and frequently hilarious...." Barton Sutter
Kelsea Habecker
Hollow Out,poems
Many Voices Project, 2006
"No one since John Haine's Winter News has written so well about the interminable winters, the snow, the cold and the human solitude of those living in polar regions." Charles Simic, 2007 Poet Laureate of the United States
Tim Nolan
The Sound of It, poems
Many Voices Project, 2006
"Tim Nolan's voice is funny and serious at once, sly and direct, wry and heartfelt." Jim Moore
Tricia Currans-Sheehan
The River Road, stories
American Fiction Series
"An amazing journey into rural Iowa, full of animals, passion, childhood imagination and longings, and unique characters—a magical world, which reminds me painfully how America has fallen from grace into suburbia and corporate farming." Josip Novakovich
Penelope Schwartz Robinson
Slippery Men, essays
Stonecoast Book Prize
"Penelope Schwartz Robinson manages to be both clever and warm, a neat trick, and a real storyteller, too. Both women and men will smile at themselves in the mirror she holds up to contemporary life." Katha Pollitt
John Chattin
Cars Go Fast, stories
Many Voices Project, 2005
Marianne Herrmann
Signaling For Rescue, stories
Many Voices Project, 2005.
Long-Listed for Frank O'Connor International Short Story 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
Diane Jarvenpa
The Tender Wild Things, poems
Many Voices Project, 2005
Wins Midwest Book Award: The Midwest
Independent Publishers Association has announced that The Tender, Wild Things
won in the poetry category. Diane Jarvenpa is a Minnesota
native whose grandparents all emigrated from Finland. She has received
grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and, as Diane Jarvi,
performs folk and world music in Europe, Australia, and the United
States.
Towards the Forest, poems
New American Poetry Series
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Beth Alvarado
Not a Matter of Love, stories
Winner, 2005 MVP
Lisa Gill
Mortar & Pestle, poems
Winner, NEA 2007 Fellowship
Michael Hettich
Flock and Shadow, poems
Top 10 Poetry Book,
Book Sense, Spring 2006
Ed Bok Lee
Real Karaoke People, poems
MN Book Award Finalist
Awards: 2006 Members' Choice,
2006 PEN/Beyond Margins,
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)
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