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New Rivers Press is pleased to announce the next MVP Competition, a search for book-length unpublished manuscripts by new or emerging writers. The poetry prize is open to any citizen of the United States. Two additional prizes (one prose, one in any genre) are open only to legal residents of Minnesota or the five boroughs of New York City. There is a $20 entry fee. 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 complete guidelines, click HERE.
Manuscripts may be submitted between Sept. 15 and Nov. 1, 2008.
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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