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A M E R I C A N A


Storytellers. Values. Leadership.

Americana is a nonprofit, independent press. We exist to give voice to exceptional writers who make a positive global impact.

We believe writers create our future popular culture and record our history thus must be supported as they express the hopes, dreams, struggles, and challenges of our age. In other words, your voice matters. Diversity and inclusion matter as well.

We're currently reading manuscripts and invite you to submit your best work to
PRIZE AMERICANA.

Winners may be published by Press Americana and our imprints The Poetry Press and Hollywood Books International.

We are open to all styles and genres. Blow us away.


PRIZE AMERICANA FOR POETRY
DEADLINE 1 May 2025
Submit 75-150 page manuscript to editor@americanpopularculture.com.
The contest fee of $25 may be paid electronically through Paypal to editor@americanpopularculture.com

 

PRIZE AMERICANA FOR PROSE  
(FICTION, CREATIVE NONFICTION, MEMOIR, SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS, NOVELS)
DEADLINE 1 OCTOBER 2024
Submit 150-250 page manuscript to editor@americanpopularculture.com.
The contest fee of $25 may be paid electronically through Paypal to editor@americanpopularculture.com

 

 

          SUPPORT INDEPENDENT NONPROFIT PUBLISHING                      

 

 

RULES

Submission to Prize Americana implies acceptance of the following rules:
1) Submissions will be judged by members of the Board of Directors of Americana, the Advisory Board of Review Americana, and the Editor of Press Americana. All decisions will be considered final and will not be subject to dispute. Please note this contest is not judged by a single celebrity; rather, the winner emerges from a popular vote by many readers. We feel this process is more fair to writers.
2) We subscribe to the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses Contest Code of Ethics. As such, all submissions are reviewed blindly.
3) Winners of Prize Americana for Poetry may be published by The Poetry Press, the poetry imprint of Press Americana.
4) Winners of Prize Americana for Prose may be published by Hollywood Books International, the fiction imprint of Press Americana; nonfiction may be published through Press Americana.
5) Press Americana publishes in paperback. Authors may make the decision to distribute in eBook format, Kindle, or hardcover.
6) American citizenship is not a requirement; the only requirement is that the work hold some appeal for an American readership and bear some relationship with American culture.
7) Manuscripts must be previously unpublished. Individual stories or poems may have been published in literary reviews etc., but the work as a whole should be available for publication.
8) All queries may be emailed to the Executive Director, Dr. Leslie Kreiner Wilson, editor@americanpopularculture.com.

 

PREVIOUS PRIZE AMERICANA WINNERS


POETRY 

Evan Thomas, Strangers, 2024
John Savoie, Sehnsucht, 2023
Robert Stewart, Higher, 2022
Peter Neil Carroll, This Land, These People, 2021
Rich Murphy, The Left Behind, 2020
Robert Gibb, Sightlines, 2019
Donna J. Gelagotis Lee, Intersection on Neptune, 2018
Ryan Harper, My Beloved Had a Vineyard, 2017
Jenn Blair, Malcontent, 2016
Howie Good, Dangerous Acts Starring Unstable Elements, 2015
Grant Hier, Untended Garden, 2014
Rich Murphy, Americana, 2013
Peter Neil Carroll, A Child Turns Back to Wave: Poetry of Lost Places, 2012
Jacqueline K. Powers, The Mysteries of Fishing and Flight, 2011
Alexandria Ashford, Danke Schoen, 2010


PROSE

John Burt, A Moment's Surrender, 2023
Bill Carr, Defensive Indifference and Other Stories, 2022
Jacqueline Kolosov, Exit, Pursued by a Bear, 2021 
Jacob M. Appel, Shaving with Occam, 2020
John Blair, The Heart and Its Flames, 2019
Anne Whitehouse, The Dedication, 2018
Mark Brazaitis, The Rink Girl, 2017
Jen Knox, The Glass City, 2016
David Holdridge, The Avant Garde of Western Civ, 2015
Dustin Parsons, What Magic I've Saved, 2014
Eleanor Swanson, Exiles and Expatriates, 2013
Agustin D. Martinez, The Mares of Lenin Park, 2012
Katherine L. Holmes, Curiosity Killed the Sphinx and Other Stories, 2011
Alan Davis, So Bravely Vegetative, 2010


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