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MVP Series: 2011 Competition
Bookmark HERE for guidelines to this national competition.
Submissions accepted Sept. 15 - Nov. 1, 2011 (postmark). Finalist judge for prose is Debra Marquart. Poetry judge is Jay Parini.
We are currently screening manuscripts. Bookmark for announcements re: finalists sometimes this spring.
2010 COMPETITION
WINNERS!
Congratulations!
Prose Prize:
It Takes You Over,
Nick Healy (stories)
(selected by Joan Connor)
Poetry Prize:
A Good Time,
Sharon Suzuki-Martinez
(selected by David Mason)
See FaceBook page in middle
column for photos/bios of winners and other information.
2009 COMPETITION
WINNERS!
Prose Prize:
The Muse of Ocean Parkway,
Jacob Lampart (stories)
(selected by John Dufresne)
Poetry Prize:
Hotel Utopia,
Robert Miltner
(selected by Tim Seibles)
The winning mss. will be published in Fall 2011.
Congratulations to winners and finalists. Thank you to all who submitted manuscripts.
American Fiction Prizes
American Fiction, Volume Twelve: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers, edited by Kris Tsetsi, Bayard Godsave, and Bruce Pratt.
We are pleased to announce the winners and finalists selected by guest judge Josip Novakovich for American Fiction, Volume Twelve:
FIRST PLACE: "The Polar Bear Swim" - Dika Lam
SECOND PLACE: "Jody's Solo" - Rachel Furey
THIRD PLACE: "Jacinto's Teeth" - Theresa Morales
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Talk" - Chris Belden
"John the Revelator" - Sean Conaway
FINALISTS (in no particular order):
"The Wheelchair Girls" - Stephanie Dickinson
"A Widow's Story" - Sherril Jaffe
"The Squirrel Prince" - Aurelia Wills
"The Life of Huai Li" - Peter Fong
"Blue Talk and Love" - Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
"How to Speak to God" - Rachel Marston
"Falling Girl" - Paul Vidich
"Deathwinked" - Vedran Husic
"The Beautiful Moment" - Maury Zeff
"The Substance I Am Made Of" - Eric Parker Hoel
"Country Club People" - Emily Howson
"Things of Beauty" - Chidelia Edochie
"Slip" - Robin McLean
Congratulations to all of you, and thank you so much for contributing your exceptional work.
First Prize: $1000
Second Prize: $500
Third Prize: $250
Finalist Judge: Josip Novakovich
Entry Fee: $12/story
Guidelines: bookmark HERE.
Fairfield Book Prize winner:
Good Things (short stories),
Nick Knittel
(selected by Charles Simic)
“Spare, tightly constructed and
meticulously crafted, these stories tell of lives of lower-middle-class
Americans, the isolated and marginalized people many of our contemporary
writers somehow manage not to notice. These are tough, realistic and well-told
stories. Knittel has a deep understanding of his characters and their
complicated and often hopeless circumstances, but he doesn’t judge them.
He writes of them with compassion, and, as he does, the
reader cannot help but be moved too.” Charles Simic.
The book will be published in Fall 2012.
NEWS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Multi-Media Anthology
Songs of the Rolling Earth:
A Sonic Anthology
New Rivers Press seeks poetry and prose for a
multimedia anthology to be published in 2013. Any genre, any style, any theme.
Work must be submitted via Submishmash
(http://newriverspress.submishmash.com)
in both print (.DOC/.DOCX
or .PDF) and audio (MP3). For example, if you wish to submit a piece titled
“Story,” upload two files: STORY.DOC and STORY.MP3. Audio may be a reader's
voice alone or include musical accompaniment, musical interludes, sound
effects, et cetera.
Three poems or two prose pieces (550 words maximum)
per writer. The cover letter portion of the submission must include the
writer's name, email address and phone number; title of the work(s); names of
the attached files; and a bio of less than fifty words. The deadline for submission is
December 15, 2011.
Previously published work may be submitted so long as the author owns copyright to text and .MP3. Those chosen for the anthology receive a copy of the publication. If you have trouble figuring out how to record an .MP3, scroll down to the * at the bottom of this column for a how-to.
Many of our authors are available for telephone or online conversations with book groups. Email or phone (218-477-5870) and tell us what you’re reading, the size of your book group, when you’d like to have a conversation with the author, and whatever else we need to know to help coordinate arrangements.
ABOUT US
Bill Truesdale, who founded NRP, would be proud. Despite a case of lead poisoning, he published 350 copies of Margaret Randall's collection, So Many Rooms Has a House But One Roof, in 1968.
Over 330 books later, New Rivers, now a non-profit teaching press based since 2001 at Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUM), has a dual mission. We have remained true to Bill's original goal, to publish the best new literature and advance the careers of new and emerging writers. Now, we are also a teaching press that provides learning opportunities for students, who can earn a Certificate in Publishing from MSUM, design a book, and help the press in all area of its operations.
We are especially grateful to THE MCKNIGHT FOUNDATION for its continued support. Without such support, New Rivers Press would be unable to serve its dual mission. We are also grateful to our donors for their assistance. If you can afford to join us, please consider a membership with New Rivers Press.
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For more information about New Rivers Press at Minnesota State University Moorhead, click the following images to watch Parts 1 and 2 of our informational video at YouTube.
About New Rivers Press - Part 1
About New Rivers Press - Part 2
*Steps for making an MP3 for multi-media anthology (courtesy of co-editor Diane Jarvenpa):
If you don’t have a computer but you do have a friend who is tech-savvy (or has a recording studio), ask him or her for help in making an mp3 with his or her computer.
If you do have a Mac (fairly recent) but you don’t have any tech-savvy friends (or none who can help), follow these steps:
•Find and open up the Garageband (GB) program (it’s in your applications folder).
•Once GB opens, click on “New Project” from the options provided, if it’s not selected already.
•Click on “Voice” from the available selections that appear in the window.
•Click on the “Choose” button at the lower right corner of that selection window. (Or double-click on the “Voice” icon.)
•Name your piece. I would suggest you name it with your name and the title of your piece. You can safely ignore the rest of the other choices about tempo and key signature. NOTE: the GB file you create is NOT in mp3 format yet. That will be a later step.
•Once saved, you will have your choice whether to record your voice in the “Male Basic” track or the “Female Basic” track. Choose according to your disposition. It doesn’t matter. We will have to change it to something else anyway in the following steps.
•At the right side of the screen should be a panel of two tabs with the “Real Instrument” tab highlighted.
•Further down the panel, is a “Vocals” menu item. If it is not selected, then select it.
•At the right side is a sliding menu of options. You should choose the one at the top, “No Effects."
•You are now ready to record, so have your reading materials at hand. You will be recording one piece at a time, so if you have multiple submissions, don’t do them all at once. Concentrate on one particular piece.
•To begin recording, click the red button at the bottom of the window. The controls will then look like this:
<controls recording.png>
•You will see a triangular “playhead” at the top of the screen moving along the timeline. As you speak, you will also see a red rectangular region (with sound waves!) indicating where you have recorded. At the left of that, on your “No Effects” track, there are two intensity bars showing your approximate volume as you record. (You may wish to try a sample recording and then play back the attempt to judge your speaking quality and volume.)
•Click the blue “Play” button (>) to stop playback.
<controls recording.png>
•The controls change for playing back. Choose the middle button to jump back to the beginning of your record (|<) or the rewind button (<<) to go a little ways back
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•If you make a mistake, just pause a moment, then restart from a convenient spot where the error can be edited out. Or, start over. You can record OVER old tracks. This erases them. Conversely, you can erase any recorded audio block by clicking on it and hitting the delete key. Just remember to jump back to the beginning to start recording again.
•When you have your recording done, save your file (using the File menu), then click on the “Share” menu at the top of the screen and choose “Export Song to Disk…”.
•You want to make sure that the “Compress” checkbox is clicked on.
•In the first pop-up menu, make sure you have chose “MP3 Encoder”.
•Audio settings pop-up should be “Good” for voice. You can also retry this as “High Quality” if you do not like the results from “Good.”
•In the Save dialog that appears, save the file someplace where you can find it and later attach it to an email to send to the editors.
•Repeat as necessary for each selection. Make sure to give each piece an individual name so that you do not copy over something that you wish to save.
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New Books October 2011
The Animals Beyond Us, poems
Michael Hettich
"His poems are finely observed, precisely felt, and they bring magic to the domestic life, the real magic of language that has power to transform a world." ~John Dufresne, author
Holaday Mason
"I love Mason's instructive intensity and will, her grace and ability to translate desire into something scary yet gorgeous." ~David Dodd Lee, author
Downriver People, fiction
Bea Exner Liu
"Americans should read, and ponder, this humane memoir of an American life in a China now massively, but not unrecognizably, transformed." ~Robert A. Knapp
Girl Held in Home, fiction
Elizabeth Searle
"...Elizabeth Searle uses her signature zany brilliance to turn suburbia, adultery, parenting, politics, and even terrorism into something new and insightful." ~Ann Hood, author
Hotel Utopia, poems
Robert Miltner
"[This] is a book of angles. These poems come from one bend in the mind, then another, from one tilt in the heart, then another. Whether the content is personal, mystical, or political, the voice is deliciously agile." ~Tim Seibles, author
The Muse of Ocean Parkway and Other Stories, short story collection
Jacob Lampart
"Not since The Magic Barrel have I read a short story collection that delivers such lacerating wit and tempered realism." ~C. Michael Curtis, editor