$60,000
Discover New Art Prize
for Poetry and Prose
Discover New Art will award two $25,000 prizes, one in poetry and one in prose, each to a promising manuscript-in-progress to support the manuscript's journey to publication. Five finalists in each category will also receive $1,000 awards.
For years, Discover New Art has championed the craft and careers of literary writers. This prize takes our commitment to supporting writers to the next level: a substantial award help push bold, new work across the finish line.
Prose Judges
Rebecca Makkai
Roxane Gay
Lauren Groff
Poetry Judges
Kaveh Akbar
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Carl Phillips
About Discover New Art
Discover New Art creates opportunities that uplift the craft and careers of literary writers.
Founded in 2011, our literary platforms connect writers with publication, recognition, awards, and new readers. We offer always-open, always-free submissions alongside selective contests, prizes, and programs judged by accomplished writers and literary professionals.
Our editors are writers, too. We understand the rigor, vulnerability, and persistence behind every submission, and we approach each writer and each piece of work with care, honesty, and respect.
Everything we do is rooted in a belief in the power of literary art—and in building meaningful opportunities for exceptional writing to be discovered, celebrated, and carried forward.
Platforms
A Platform for Emerging Writers
The Masters Review is a journal dedicated to publishing fiction and narrative nonfiction by emerging writers. TMR provides resources to emerging writers with workshops, agency review, and essays on craft by established writers. Our New Voices category is always free and always open, and we pay every single one of our writers. One of our most significant projects: The Masters Review publishes a print anthology featuring 10 new short stories and essays selected by a prestigious guest judge each year.
Exploring the Art of Prose
Established in 2017 as a literary magazine for fiction, CRAFT expanded in 2020 to publish creative nonfiction as well. We explore how writing works, reading pieces with a focus on the elements of craft, on the art of prose. We feature previously unpublished creative work, with occasional reprints, as well as critical pieces including craft essays and interviews. All published creative pieces include an author’s note and an editorial introduction that both discuss stylistics in the work.
We do not charge fees for our fiction or creative nonfiction submissions, or for our craft categories, and we are a paying market. Our general submissions are open year-round with no capacity limits. We value accessibility—keeping CRAFT free to read and free to submit to is our priority. We work with all writers, established as well as emerging. All creative work published in CRAFT comes through submission; we do not solicit fiction or creative nonfiction.
Welcome Home, Poet
Palette Poetry is a poetry journal focused on crafting a beautiful space for poetry online. We’ve published big names and new poets, side-by-side, with an emphasis on producing an elegant experience of digital publication for every contributor. Our lyric essay columns provide space for well-known poets to feel and write their way through prose. Our Featured Poetry category remains open year-round, free to submit—and from which we publish new poems every Monday.
Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry
Frontier Poetry is a digital journal dedicated to uplifting, supporting, and inspiring emerging poets. Through our resource-rich columns and interviews, our significant prizes and publication reach, we have established ourselves as a vital and vibrant stop for our rising poetry community. We publish work by new voices every Friday, and we hold that diversity in our contributors and editorial team is of utmost importance.
Welcome to the Future of Flash
Fractured Lit works with all writers, established as well as emerging. We want to find flash with emotional resonance and characters we care about, who come to life through their actions and responses to the world around them. We’re searching for flash that investigates the mysteries of being human, the sorrow and the joy of connecting to the diverse population around us. Flash fiction is published on Mondays. Throughout the week, we publish other content that explores the roots and the future of the flash form and genre, including essays, interviews and more.
A Premier Publisher of Sci-Fi & /Fantasy, Thriller/Mystery, and Humor
Uncharted began with the goal of publishing thrilling genre short stories; stories you can’t stop reading, stories you want to share with your friends, with the world. Stories that beguile readers, that investigate the shadows, that recalibrate how we see the world now and in the future. Stories that break our hearts or rebuild us with the jetsam of new technology. Stories that intrigue and entertain, that spike our heart rates, and leave us with the pang of nostalgia as tradition and experimentation compete for our headspace. We’ve come to expect the same from our newest submission categories too: historical short fiction and young poetry and prose.
Storytellers, readers, fans of genre writing—we welcome you home.
The In-House Publisher for Discover New Art
Red Mare Press is committed to being a publisher that uplifts and empowers authors by providing them with opportunities to grow their careers and share their voices with a wider audience in the print medium. We aim to foster a supportive environment in which authors can thrive, ensuring their work reaches their readers, wherever they may be.