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Vietnam veteran and National Book Award-winning fiction writer Tim O'Brien reads from his now classic short story collection, The Things They Carried.

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Winner of the G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction

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Winners Announced: New Letters Literary Awards. See the winners, judges, and finalists 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.)

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Kansas City Literary Events

Cote Smith

Wichita, Kan.
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Eve Ott & Pat Daneman

Kansas City, Mo.
Sunday, December 2, 2018

Elizabeth Berg

Kansas City, Mo.
Tuesday, December 4, 2018

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Winners Announced: New Letters Literary Awards

New Letters is pleased to announce the 2018 winners of the $2,500 Conger Beasley Jr. Prize for Nonfiction, the $1,500 New Letters Prize for Fiction, and the $1,500 Prize for Poetry. See the winners, judges, and finalists here.

New Letters Summer 2018 Poetry Series

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

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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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