New Issues Poetry & Prose offers two contests annually. The Green Rose Prize is awarded to an author who has previously published at least one full-length book of poems. The New Issues Poetry Prize, an award for a first book of poems, is chosen by a guest judge. Past judges have included Philip Levine, C.K. Williams, C.D. Wright, and Campbell McGrath.
New Issues does not read manuscripts outside our contests. Graduate students in the Ph.D. and M.F.A. programs of Western Michigan University often volunteer their time reading manuscripts. Finalists are chosen by the Editors. Please visit the AWP website for guidelines for the AWP Prize for the novel.
Guidelines: The 2009 Green Rose Prize
Guidelines: The
2009 New Issues Poetry Prize Judge: to be announced
Guidelines: AWP
Award Series in the Novel
View a list of past winners.
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Winner
of the 2008 New Issues Poetry Prize
Justin Marks, A Million in Prizes
Justin Marks has won the 2008 New Issues Poetry Prize for his manuscript A Million in Prizes, which will be published in the spring of 2009. Judge: Carl Phillips
From
Judge’s Citation:
“‘I wake, my not-yet-self/projecting back on the life I rise
into.’ That’s but one example of the kind of logic (and syntax)
that informs the poems of A Million in Prizes, a logic that often
resists initial sense, only to reward with a clarity and maturity of
insight that make these poems more powerful—more persuasive—with
each reading.”
—Carl
Phillips
Justin Marks’s latest chapbook is [Summer insular] (Horse Less Press, 2007). His poems have recently appeared in Cannibal, Soft Targets, Tarpaulin Sky and the Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel – Second Floor, and are forthcoming in Handsome, the New York Quarterly and Wildlife Poetry Magazine. He is the founder and Editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks and lives in New York City.
Also
chosen for publication, runner-up:
Zero at the Bone by Stacie Cassarino
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Winner
of the 2008 Green Rose Prize in Poetry
Patty Seyburn, Hilarity
The Editors of New Issues Poetry & Prose are pleased to announce the winner of the 2008 Green Rose Prize: Patty Seyburn, for her manuscript Hilarity. Patty Seyburn wins a $2,000 award and publication of her manuscript with New Issues in spring 2009.
Patty Seyburn has published two books of poems: Mechanical Cluster (Ohio State University Press, 2002) and Diasporadic (Helicon Nine Editions, 1998) which won the 1997 Marianne Moore Poetry Prize and the American Library Association's Notable Book Award for 2000. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including The Paris Review, New England Review, Field, Slate, Crazyhorse, Cutbank, Quarterly West, Bellingham Review, Connecticut Review, Cimarron Review, Third Coast and Western Humanities Review. Seyburn grew up in Detroit, earned a BS and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern University, an MFA in Poetry from University of California, Irvine, and a Ph.D. in Poetry and Literature from the University of Houston. She is an Assistant Professor at California State University, Long Beach and co-editor of POOL: A Journal of Poetry, based in Los Angeles.
Also
chosen for publication in the Green Rose Series:
Missing Her by Claudia Keelan
Dirt Angels by Donald Platt
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The
2008 AWP Award Series in the Novel
Invaded, a novel by Goldie Goldbloom
Judge: Joanna Scott
Goldie Goldbloom of Chicago, Illinois, has won the 2008 AWP Award for the Novel for her manuscript titled Invaded. Joanna Scott, author of Everybody Loves Somebody and The Manikin, judged the contest for AWP.
Judge's Statement: "Invaded is a strange, mesmerizing tale about characters uncomfortably defined by superficial eccentricities. It is also a wrenching love story."
Goldie Goldbloom's stories have appeared in StoryQuarterly and Narrative Magazine. She lives in Chicago and has eight children.
AWP is a national, nonprofit organization dedicated to serving American letters, writers, and programs of writing. Visit the 2008 AWP Award Series page for more information on the contest and to view the winners of the other categories.
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