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If you would like to be associated with or to help launch a particular title or series or a group of related titles as a benefactor, we could use your help. There are many categories of tax-deductible membership. Alan Davis, Wayne Gudmundson or Laurie Wigtil can help you decide how to participate, and at what level. Any contribution helps and is much appreciated. Specific levels of membership are listed below.
New Rivers Press
MSU Moorhead
1104 7th Ave. S.
Moorhead, MN 56563
nrp@mnstate.edu
218.477.5870http://
Wayne Gudmundson, Director
Email: gudmund@mnstate.edu
Alan Davis, Senior Editor
Email: davisa@mnstate.edu
Laurie Wigtil, Director of Major & Corporate Gifts
MSUM Foundation
218-477-2144 or wigtilla@mnstate.edu
New Rivers Press, founded in 1968, is a not-for-profit small press publisher of diverse literature in all genres by writers from Minnesota, from the Midwest, from the many Americas, and from elsewhere in the world. While we are especially known for our MVP Series that publishes new and emerging writers - two MVP authors won "New Voices" awards in 2004 at the Minnesota Book Awards and, more recently, Ed Bok Lee's Real Karaoke People was a finalist - we publish many other books and anthologies by both new and established writers as our resources allow. We are also a teaching press whose operations are integrated into the Minnesota State University Moorhead curriculum; students can earn a "Certificate in Publishing" and work as interns on campus to gain practical small-business experience in design, development, editing, marketing, and other areas of the publishing business.
Please consider joining us so that you can receive regular information about books and upcoming events. If you can afford to help us out with a donation or a bequest, you should know that anything you contribute will be dedicated to publishing and marketing good literature and to creating service learning opportunities for MSUM students.
Member: up to $99: 20% discount for purchase of New Rivers Press books.
Supporting Member: $100-$499: all Member benefits + one New Rivers Press book.
Sustaining Member: $500-$999: all above benefits + two New Rivers Press books.
Benefactor: $1,000-$2,999: all above benefits + four New Rivers Press books.
Distinguished Benefactor: $3,000-$4,999: all above benefits + acknowledgment in forthcoming book.
The Editors' Circle: $5,000-$6,999: all above benefits + underwrites a special Press reading and reception.
Special Giving Programs:
The Publishers' Circle: $7,000 +: all above benefits + underwrites a forthcoming book with acknowledgment as primary donor on ISBN page.
The Legacy Circle: Recognition of those who include New Rivers Press in their estate plans. If you would like to receive information on placing New Rivers Press in your will, please contact Laurie Wigtil, Director of Major & Corporate Gifts, MSUM Foundation, 218-477-2144 or wigtilla@mnstate.edu
BROWSE BOOKS
FictionAnthology
Other
2008 Titles
2007 Titles
Authors Online
Many of our authors are available for telephone or online conversations with book groups. Email or phone (218-477-5870) and tell us what you’re reading, the size of your book group, when you’d like to have a conversation with the author, and whatever else we need to know to help coordinate arrangements.
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
American Fiction Series:
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
Other
2008 Titles
2007 Titles
Authors Online
Many of our authors are available for telephone or online conversations with book groups. Email or phone (218-477-5870) and tell us what you’re reading, the size of your book group, when you’d like to have a conversation with the author, and whatever else we need to know to help coordinate arrangements.
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).