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40th Anniversary
NRP celebrated 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.
More than 15 New Rivers Press authors, many of them MVP winners, read at the Loft at this open reading and reminisced. In the future, we hope to hold such Twin City gatherings on a regular basis. Watch for details. And please consider making a tax-deductible donation to New Rivers Press. For more details, click on the link below.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
2008 MVP Deadlines
For guidelines and more information, click HERE.
The Many Voices Project is the distinguished annual competition (since 1981) to find new and emerging writers. (An emerging writer has not published more than two books of creative writing 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.
We are currently screening manuscripts. We hope to have announcements of winners by May 1, 2009.
Fiction Judge: Leif Enger
Poetry Judge: Joyce Sutphen
2007 MVP Winners
Elizabeth Oness (Houston, MN)
Friend Among Stones, poems
Maya Pindyck (Brooklyn, NY)
When Love Was Clean Underwear, novel
Susan Barr-Toman (Philadelphia, PA)
Finalist Poetry Judge: Michael Hettich
Finalist Prose Judge: Ann Hood