Now Accepting Submissions: 2011 Green Rose Prize

The 2011 Green Rose Prize:

$2,000 and publication for a book of poems by an established poet. Previous winners include Seth Abramson, Malinda Markham, Patty Seyburn, Joan Houlihan, Christine Hume, and Martha Rhodes.

Guidelines:

• Eligibility: Poets writing in English who have already published one or more full-length collections of poetry. We will consider individual collections and volumes of new and selected poems. Besides the winner, New Issues may publish as many as three additional manuscripts from this competition.
• Please include a $20 reading fee. Checks should be made payable to New Issues Press.
• Postmark Deadline: September 30, 2010. The winning manuscript will be named in January 2011 and published in the spring of 2012.

Additional guidelines available on our website: www.wmich.edu/newissues/sub-guide

Send manuscripts and queries to:

The Green Rose Prize
New Issues Poetry & Prose
Western Michigan University
1903 West Michigan Ave.
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5463

News from New Issues' Authors

Lewis Horton, a contributor to The Art of The One-Act: An Anthology ("Diorama") is happy to report that his travel/memoir Travels in the Land of the One-Eyed King was published on July 1, 2010. It's the sort of book Flannery O'Connor might've written if, as a child, she'd been dragged across America in the back seat of a car driven by A.J. Foyt and his cantankerous wife, Sister Wendy.

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, author of Before The Palm Could Bloom: Poems of Africa (New Issues, 1998), has published her forth collection Where the Road Turns published by Autumn House Press, July 20, 2010.

"She is without doubt among the most powerful of the younger generation of African poets." – Frank M. Chipasula, editor, Bending the Bow: An Anthology of African Poetry 

Jon Pineda, author of The Translator's Diary (New Issues, 2008), has a memoir coming out from University of Nebraska Press in September of 2010. Sleep in Me is a heartrending memoir of the coming-of-age of a boy haunted by a family tragedy. Sleep in Me is a 2010 Holiday Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program selection.

New Issues Fundraiser: Save the Date

Save the afternoon of Sunday, August 29th, for the annual New Issues End of Summer Celebration and Gala Fundraiser, hosted by Bell's Brewery Eccentric Cafe. Music, Poetry, and much more.

New Issues Launches Redesigned Website

New Issues spent the last year redesigning and updating their large and heavily-visited website. Alex Aivars, Coordinator of the Web for the College of Arts and Sciences provided the design and structure. Laura Zawistowski and Shana Wolstein, Spring 2010 interns, and Marianne Swierenga, Managing Editor, transfered and updated all the information to the new site.

Visit the site for recent contest results or to investigate the new titles for fall. www.wmich.edu/newissues

New Issues listed as one of "15 Feisty Small Presses"

Anis Shivani, writer for The Huffington Post, featured New Issues Press in his recent article, "Independence Day: 15 Feisty Small Presses And The Books You're Going To Want From Them" Visit the site and vote to put New Issues in the top 5.

Editor William Olsen:

"The mainstream publishing houses can't begin to represent all of the best emerging poetry and literary fiction. Our press looks to find voices uncategorized by pressures of prestige or expectation. There is no other way except through small presses for these voices to be heard and to endure in their initial splendor."

Khaled Mattawa June 9th Reading in Ann Arbor

Meet poet Khaled Mattawa tonight at Nicola's Books in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

June 9, 2010 - 7:00pm

KHALED MATTAWA is the author of four books of poetry, Tocqueville (New Issues Press, 2010) Amorisco (Ausable Press, 2008),Zodiac of Echoes (Ausable Press, 2003) and Ismailia Eclipse (Sheep Meadow Press, 1996).

Nicola's Books - Westgate Shopping Center
2513 Jackson Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48103
734.662.0600
www.nicolasbooks.indiebound.com

This reading series is sponsored by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA).

Winner of the 2010 New Issues Poetry Prize

Jeff Hoffman has won the 2010 New Issues Poetry Prize for his manuscript Journal of American Foreign Policy. Linda Gregerson, author of Magnetic North, judged.

Jeff wins a $2,000 award and publication of his manuscript in the spring of 2011.

Jeff Hoffman grew up in western Pennsylvania and was educated at the University of New Hampshire, the University of Texas (where he was a Michener Fellow at the Michener Center for Writers), and at Stanford University (where he was a Stegner Fellow in poetry). He has also been a Chesterfield Screenwriting Fellow with Paramount Pictures. His poems have appeared in The New Republic, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, Spinning Jenny, and elsewhere. His short plays have been performed throughout the United States and can be found in anthologies that are available from Vintage and Samuel French. He currently lives in Pasadena, CA.

"The way memory and grief and love compose the stories that enable us to go on living. The toxic mix of innocence and inadvertence, wishfulness and making-do that comes to look like purpose. Which on the scale of nations we call 'policy.' These brilliant poems have leverage on it all: micro- and macro- and the sorry, human mess we too often make of both. They also have so masterful a way with idiom and timing that even the sternest insight is leavened with a measure of joy. Tonic intelligence, exhilarating craftsmanship: Jeff Hoffman’s fine first book is a gift to us all." 

—Linda Gregerson, from the Judge’s Citation

Lizzie Hutton’s manuscript She’d Waited Millennia was named runner-up by the judge and will be published in the fall of 2011.

Lizzie Hutton received her AB from Princeton University and her MFA from the University of Michigan. Her poetry has appeared in the Harvard Review, Yale Review, Antioch Review and Interim, among other journals, and her essays in the New England Review; in 2009 she was awarded the Sycamore Review's Wabash Prize for a single poem. She currently lives in Ann Arbor and teaches at the University of Michigan's Sweetland Writing Center.

The New Issues Poetry Prize is selected by a guest judge. Manuscripts are read blind. Thank you to Linda Gregerson for judging our 2010 prize. The 2011 prize will be judged by David Wojahn, author of Interrogation Palace. Guidelines for the 2011 prize are available on our website.