The New American Fiction Prize is an annual prize awarded by
New American Press
New American Press is an American not-for-profit literary press founded in 2001, and located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, publishing poetry, fiction and nonfiction.
New American Press was founded in 2001 as part of American Distractions, an arts-supp ...
. The award was established in 2010 to give voice to emerging writers of innovative fiction.
The New American Fiction Prize is awarded annually to one winner for a book-length work of fiction. Manuscripts may be novels, novellas, collections of stories and/or novellas, novels in verse, linked collections, or full-length collections of flash fiction. Authors of winning manuscripts receive a cash award of US$1500 and a box of contributor copies, and their collections are subsequently published under a standard contract.
Winners
* 2010 Craig Davis for ''Ramshackle Wonderlands''
* 2011 Micah Dean Hicks for ''Electricity and Other Dreams
* 2013
Alden Jones
Alden Jones (born June 5, 1972) is an American writer and educator. She is the author of memoirs ''The Wanting Was a Wilderness'' (2020) and ''The Blind Masseuse'' (2013) and the short story collection ''Unaccompanied Minors'' (2014). ''The Blin ...
for ''Unaccompanied Minors''
* 2014 David Armstrong for ''Reiterations''
* 2015 Wayne Harrison for ''Wrench''
* 2016 Marina Mularz for ''Welcome to Freedom Point''
* 2017
Seth Borgen for ''If I Die in Ohio''
* 2018 David R. Slavitt for ''Dwindling''
* 2019 Amy Neswald ''I Know You Love Me Too''
* 2020 Rachel Swearingen for ''How to Walk on Water''
See also
*
List of American literary awards
References
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External links
New American Press Homepage
Short story awards
American fiction awards
2010 establishments in the United States
Awards established in 2010