New
Issues Poetry & Prose
Western Michigan University
1903 W. Michigan Ave.
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5463
(269) 387-8185
new-issues (at) wmich (dot) edu
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New
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New Issues Poetry & Prose, a nonprofit, university-based
publisher, was established in 1996 by Editor Herbert S. Scott. New
Issues publishes eight to twelve new titles each year with a focus on contemporary
poetry. The Editor is William
Olsen. Advisory editors are Stuart
Dybek, Nancy Eimers, Jaimy Gordon, Mark Halliday, and J. Allyn Rosser.
New Issues Poetry & Prose is the sponsor of two poetry prizes, each offering
a $2,000 award and publication. The
New Issues Poetry Prize is an award given to a first book of poems submitted
during the national reading period of June through November. Brenda Hillman,
Chase Twichell, Philip Levine, Marianne Boruch, C.K. Williams, C.D. Wright,
and Campbell McGrath have been judges in the competition. New Issues also sponsors
the Green Rose Prize in Poetry,
an award given to a collection of poems by a poet who has previously published
one or more volumes of poetry. Submissions for the Green Rose Prize are accepted
from May to the end of September, with winning manuscripts selected by the editors
of New Issues. The press considers for publication only manuscripts submitted
during its competition reading periods and often accepts two or more manuscripts
for publication in addition to the winner.
New Issues Poetry and Prose has received generous support from anonymous donors,
and through grants from the Eric Mathieu King Fund and the Greenwall Fund of
The Academy of American Poets;
and from the Pharmacia and Upjohn Foundation, the Fetzer Institute, and the
Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo.
Grants from the Michigan
Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and from the National Endowment for
the Arts have supported the publication of many of New Issues’ poetry books
and works of fiction.
New Issues is proud to publish the AWP Award Series in the Novel. The first winning novel to appear from New Issues is One Tribe by M. Evelina Galang, chosen by judge Elizabeth McCracken.
All New Issues titles are designed by senior graphic design students, under the supervision of Tricia Hennessy and Paul Sizer, in the Frostic School of Art, Western Michigan University.
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