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After announcing the finalists for the New Rivers Press Chapbook Contest at the beginning of the month, the students in our Practicum in Publishing course have been hard at work reading, deliberating, and deciding on the winners for the contest. We're sure you've all been waiting with baited breath as much as we have. We're excited to share what the ...
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The editors at New Rivers Press are excited to announce the finalists for the New Rivers Press Chapbook competition! From here, the manuscripts will be handed to the students in our Practicum in Publishing class at Minnesota State University Moorhead to make the final decision. Stay tuned for the announcement of the winner(s) at the end of the month! La ...
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New Rivers Press seeks poetry and prose manuscripts of 20–40 pages in length for consideration for our first chapbook contest. We are interested in flash fiction and nonfiction, prose and lyric poetry, literary and speculative works (sci fi, fantasy, horror, etc.) and innovative works that play around and between all those genres. Manuscripts may be comprised of smaller pieces or ...
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After months of reading and reading, weeks of deliberating and discussing, we’re incredibly excited to announce the results of the 2019 Many Voices Project competitions! Congratulations to our winners! We’d also like to thank everyone who submitted. We look forward to sharing these amazing works with you all! Poetry Our poetry winner is Samuel Ugbechie with Monologue of Fire. Samuel ...
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The process of screening manuscripts and selecting a winner for poetry in the Many Voices Project is an annual highlight for the New Rivers Press family. Each year finds us yet again amazed and grateful to receive manuscripts from poets practicing their craft in every corner of the world, and it is with a sense of humility and reverence that ...
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Every year, one of my favorite parts of this job is reading through the Many Voices Projects submissions to see the kind of amazing talent and manuscripts we receive from writers the world over. And each year, it’s an incredibly difficult task to winnow those hundreds of manuscripts to a list of finalists. In such unpredictable times, it’s reassuring to ...
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