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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 $40 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 2026
Submit 150-250 page manuscript to editor@americanpopularculture.com.
The contest fee of $40 may be paid electronically through Paypal to editor@americanpopularculture.com

 

 

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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 and not under consideration elsewhere. 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.

PUBLICATIONS OF PREVIOUS PRIZE AMERICANA WINNERS

POETRY 

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

PROSE

John Burt > COMING SOON > A Moment's Surrender
Jacqueline Kolosov Exit, Pursued by a Bear
Jacob M. Appel Shaving with Occam
Mark Brazaitis The Rink Girl
Jen Knox The Glass City
David Holdridge The Avant Garde of Western Civ
Eleanor Swanson Exiles and Expatriates
Agustin D. Martinez The Mares of Lenin Park
Katherine L. Holmes Curiosity Killed the Sphinx and Other Stories
Alan Davis So Bravely Vegetative

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