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CALENDAR
Twin Cities Book Fair
Sat., Oct. 11, 10am-5pm
Mpls Comm. & Technical College
1501 Hennepin Ave., Mpls., MN
40th Anniversary
The Loft, Nov. 13, 2008
NRP celebrates its 40th anniversary at The Loft in Minneapolis on November 13, 2008.
The press emerged from a drafty Massachusetts barn in winter 1968.
Intent on publishing work by new and emerging poets, founder C. W.
"Bill" Truesdale labored for weeks over an old Chandler & Price
letterpress. Despite a case of lead poisoning, he published 350 copies
of Margaret Randall's collection, So Many Rooms Has a House But One
Roof. 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.
Please consider a tax-deductible donation to the press to help us to continue advancing the careers of new & emerging writers.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
2008 MVP Deadlines
For guidelines and more information, click HERE.
The distinguished competition since 1981 to find new and emerging writers. (An emerging writer 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.
Fiction Judge: TBA
Poetry Judge: TBA
2007 MVP Winners
Fallibility, poems
Elizabeth Oness (Houston, MN)
Friend Among Stones, 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 will also publish Whiskey Love (novel) by Rachel L. Coyne and Interference and Other Stories by Richard Hoffman.
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.
• 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.
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
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)
Fiction