Happy Holidays from New Issues

The New Issues office will be closed from Friday, December 24th to Monday, January 3rd.
We hope you have a great holiday and receive all the poetry books on your wish list.

New Issues Poets Receive NEA Literature Fellowships

Congratulations to Jericho Brown (Please, 2008), Lisa Lewis (Vivisect, 2010), and Donald Platt (Dirt Angels, 2009).  These poets each were awarded a 2011 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts worth $25,000.

2011 Grant Awards: Literature Fellowships: Creative Writing (Poetry)

Gordon Wins National Book Award for Fiction

Jaimy Gordon, Advisory Editor at New Issues and creative writing professor here at WMU, has just won the National Book Award for her novel Lord of Misrule. Jaimy translated Marie Beig's Hermine: An Animal Life from the German. Congratulations Jaimy!

Call for Submissions: New Issues Poetry Prize

Postmark Deadline: November 30, 2010

$2,000 and publication for a first book of poems
Judge: David Wojahn

New Issues Press is taking submissions for the 2011 New Issues Poetry Prize, an award for a first book of poems. The winner is chosen by a guest judge. The 2011 prize will be judged by David Wojahn, author of Interrogation Palace.

Guidelines for the 2011 prize are available on our website.

New Issues also offers publication to manuscripts in addition to the winner.

New Issues Poetry Prize Past Winners:

• 2010: Jeff Hoffman, Journal of American Foreign Policy (Judge: Linda Gregerson)
• 2009: Judy Halebsky, Sky=Empty (Judge: Marvin Bell)
• 2008: Justin Marks, A Million in Prizes (Judge: Carl Phillips)
• 2007: Sandra Beasley, Theories of Falling (Judge: Marie Howe)
• 2006: Jason Bredle, Standing in Line for the Beast (Judge: Barbara Hamby)
• 2005: Katie Peterson, This One Tree (Judge: William Olsen)
• 2004: Kevin Boyle, A Home for Wayward Girls (Judge: Rodney Jones)
• 2003: Cynie Cory; Barbara Maloutas; Louise Mathias; Bradley Paul; Heidi Lynn Staples; Ever Saskya; Matthew Thorburn (Judge: Brenda Hillman)
• 2002: Paul Guest, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World (Judge: Campbell McGrath)
• 2001: Sarah Mangold, Household Mechanics (Judge: C.D. Wright
• 2000: Elizabeth Powell, Republic of Self (Judge: C.K. Williams)
• 1999: Joy Manesiotis, They Sing to Her Bones (Judge: Marianne Boruch)
• 1998: Malena Mörling, Ocean Avenue (Judge: Philip Levine)
• 1997: Marsha de la O, Black Hope (Judge: Chase Twichell)

Beckian Fritz Goldberg at WMU

Beckian Fritz Goldberg will be reading at Western Michigan University on Thursday, November 4th.

When: Thursday, Nov 4 at 8 p.m.

Where: WMU's Bernhard Center, Room 105-107

Who: Beckian Fritz Goldberg, author of Reliquary Fever: New and Selected Poems Goldberg holds an M.F.A. from Vermont College and is the author of six volumes of poetry. Goldberg is currently Professor of English at Arizona State University.


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Heather Sellers's Memoir

Congratulations to Heather Sellers, author of The Boys I Borrow (New Issues 2007), on the publication of her memoir You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know.

Book Launch Party for You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know
A memoir by Heather Sellers
Washington Square Gallery (next to Pereddies), 453 Washington Ave., Holland MI

For a full listing of events, visit her website: www.heathersellers.com

WMU's THIRD COAST Celebrates 15 Years

Celebrating 15 years of Third Coast magazine and the release of our Fall 2010 issue with readings, live music, and refreshments!

Date: Saturday, November 6th, from 7-9pm
Location: Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, Suite 103A, Park Trades Center, 326 W. Kalamazoo Avenue, Kalamazoo, MI

Featuring readings by Austin Bunn, Monica Berlin, Nancy Eimers, and William Olsen, and original music by Joe Gross:

AUSTIN BUNN – Austin Bunn’s full-length plays and solo pieces have been performed and developed variously, including works at The New Harmony Project, Iowa New Play Festival, University of Oregon EcoDrama Festival, The Lark NYC, Playwrights’ Theatre of NJ, and others. His non-fiction and fiction writing have appeared in Best American Fantasy, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and The New York Times Magazine. He teaches at Grand Valley State University.

MONICA BERLIN – Monica Berlin’s recent poems have appeared in DIAGRAM, Rhino, and New Orleans Review, among others. In Spring 2009 she won the Thomas R. Hruska Memorial Nonfiction prize from Passages North. Berlin in an Associate Professor at Knox College.

NANCY EIMERS – Nancy Eimers’ fourth poetry collection, Oz, is forthcoming in winter 2011 from Carnegie Mellon University Press. She teaches creative writing at Western Michigan University and at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

WILLIAM OLSEN - William Olsen has four collections of poetry, including Avenue Of Vanishing. A fifth collection, Sand Theory, will be brought out by Northwestern University Press April 2011. He has won fellowships from Breadloaf, the NEA, and the Guggenheim. He teaches at Western Michigan University, where he edits New Issues Poetry and Prose.

Third Coast, a national literary magazine based at Western Michigan University, is edited entirely by WMU graduate and undergraduate students. Works first published in Third Coast have recently been selected for The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize - Best of the Small Presses series, Best New Poets, and The Best American Poetry Series.