By Subscription: Writing by the 2017 New Letters Literary Award winners, plus interviews with Michelle Boisseau and H.C. Palmer. 

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Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month with the 2018 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winner, Martín Espada, who gives voice to those otherwise silenced.

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Winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, selected by Enid Shomer. Coming in November.

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$750 New Letters Publication Award in Fiction: Deadline, Oct. 28, 2018. This year's topic is children. View the guidelines here and enter online via Submittable. 

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$750 Publication Award for Fiction

2018 topic is Children. Deadline: Oct. 28, 2018. Enter here.

 

 

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New Letters on the Air Celebrates 40 Years!!!

New Letters quarterly and its audio companion, New Letters on the Air, are part of a national literary tradition that serves readers and writers across the world. On this website, you can search for a particular author with recordings of interviews and readings going back to 1977. (Also, search for a poem, story or essay from New Letters magazine or its previous title, The University Review.)

Kansas City Literary Events

Denise Low

Emporia, Kan.
Sunday, September 23, 2018

Salazar, McDougal & Powers

Lawrence, Kan.
Sunday, September 23, 2018

Kevin Rabas

Leavenworth, Kan.
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

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New Letters Summer 2018 Poetry Series

Follow our new series of poems about children, each day or two through July. Begin reading here. 

New Letters' Author Wins Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award

New Letters is pleased to announce the Lydia Conklin, whose essay "Rockaway" appeared in New Letters vol. 76 no. 4, has won a 2018 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award.

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Dave Smith Collection

Special Pricing: This collection includes New Letters (Vol. 80, No. 1), two CDs with New Letters on the Air programs from 1981, 1988, and part one and two of a 2014 interview, all featuring the work of Dave Smith. Downloads of these programs have also been reduced in our audio archives.

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