New Issues Poetry Prize

New Issues Poetry & Prose

April 2012

About Us New Issues Poetry & Prose was established in 1996 by poet Herbert S. Scott.   Fall 2012 The Right Place to Jump  by Peter Covino  The Frame Called Ruin  by Hadara Bar-Nadav  A Penance  by CJ Evans  Spring 2013 Phantom Camera by Jaswinder Bolina Pinwheel by Marni Ludwig The Most Natural Thing by David Keplinger Fall 2013 Ain't No Grave by T.J. Jarrett Large White House Speaking by Mark Irwin Slip by Cullen Bailey Burns

Dear Friends,    We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2012 New Issues Poetry Prize: Marni Ludwig for her manuscript Pinwheel.  Ludwig wins a $2,000 award and publication of her manuscript in the spring of 2013.   Marni Ludwig    Marni Ludwig holds degrees from Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University and Washington University in St. Louis.  Her poems have appeared in Boulevard, FIELD, Gulf Coast, High Chair, JERRY, Western Humanities Review and other journals. Her chapbook, Little Box of Cotton and Lightning, was selected by Susan Howe for a 2011 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. She lives in St. Louis and Brooklyn. "Marni Ludwig has a vast and original mind and spirit, which along with her quiet, sometimes sharp humor, and her tenderness, implicate everyone.  Her skill is like a good horse, who becomes one with the rider and with her wild, unheard of travels.  Here is the real thing."        -Jean Valentine, from the judge's citation   Also accepted for publication: Ain't No Grave by T.J. Jarrett  to appear in the fall of 2013    The New Issues Poetry Prize is awarded annually for a full-length debut collection of poetry. The judge for the 2013 New Issues Poetry Prize is David St. John. Guidelines are available on our website.  Congratulations, Susanna Childress!   Entering the House of Awe Susanna Childress won the Society of Midland Authors Award for Poetry for her collection Entering the House of Awe. Congratulations, Kevin Fenton!   Merit Badges Kevin Fenton won the Friends of American Writers Literary Award for Fiction for his novel Merit Badges. Congratulations, Khaled Mattawa!   Tocqueville Khaled Mattawa won the Poetry Center Book Award for his collection Tocqueville.   Our titles are available online through Amazon.com and spdbooks.org.