ABOUT THE NEW GUARD
“Hey, buddy boy, there’s going to be some changes around here…”
THE NEW GUARD is an annual independent literary review proudly founded in Knightville, Maine. We are writers for writers' sake. Our troupe is humble. Our mission is big. The New Guard is here to showcase newcomers alongside established writers, and to juxtapose tradition with experiment to create a new dialogue.
WE WANT:
Literary and experimental fiction.
Narrative and experimental poetry.
In a time of publishing crisis The New Guard will stand up and put on the gloves for those good stories and poems.
Give us your ire, your lore, your guarded passage.
Patrick Rioux, video/Shanna McNair, music
"The New Guard presents a curious mixture of the traditional narrative with the experimental, whether it is intimate fan letters to long-deceased authors, short stories showcasing mythical transformations, or free-verse poems." --New Pages
New Pages review of the TNG 2010 book by Vanessa Willoughby TNG is WinningWriters.com Summer, 2011 Interview TNG on liveworkportland.org TNG live on ABC radio Australia TNG in Lily Magazine TNG Columbia College video interview at AWP 2011 TNG on obitmag.com Thank you to everyone who contributed to our successful Kickstarter campaign!
The New Guard is a proud member of the Council of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP), an organization committed to literary causes and to ethics in contest practices.
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CONTEST ANNOUNCEMENTS 2011
Thank you to all who entered the 2011 Machigonne and Knightville contests! Competition was very tough this year. TNG submissions increased by a third and we received entries from all over the world. Entries were outstanding and the selection process was difficult, to say the least.
All of the finalists and semi-finalists are published alongside the winners and contributors in the 2011 issue. We are very proud of our winners, finalists and semi-finalists. Congratulations!
THE NEW GUARD 2011 CONTEST WINNERSMachigonne Fiction Contest Winner
Dan Marmor
Short story, Recipes For Disaster
Dan Marmor graduated from Stanford University in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in English. He is a scrappy, young writer from the suburbs of Long Island, currently working on a novel, Recipes For Disaster. Dan is pursuing a master’s degree in English and Creative Writing with hopes of one day starting a literary journal devoted to publishing new and experimental fiction.
Knightville Poetry Contest Winner
Kathleen Spivack
Long form poem, The Great Railroad Train of Art
Kathleen Spivack is the author of seven books of prose and poetry. With Robert Lowell and His Famous Circle: Boston:1959-79, a memoir, is forthcoming in 2012. A History of Yearning (2010) won the Sow’s Ear International Poetry Chapbook Prize and also won first prize in the poetry book category at the London Book Festival. Recent poems have won first prizes including the Allen Ginsberg Memorial Poetry Award and the New England Poetry Club’s Erika Mumford Prize. She has also won several Solas International Best Essay awards. Residencies include the Radcliffe Institute, Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony and the American Academy in Rome. Fellowships include grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Commission. She teaches in Boston and Paris.MACHIGONNE FICTION FINALISTS
Allison Alsup, A Good Likeness
Michael Caleb Tasker, The Visit
Amina Gautier, Most Honest
Caron Levis, Late Pass
Lisa Locascio, American Hospitality
Greta Schuler, Witchcraft
Brent van Staalduinen, Buddy’s Mirror
Kirk Wilson, The Story You Never Heard About Lattorial
Sam Wilson, Maybe in Casper, Wyoming
MACHIGONNE FICTION SEMI-FINALISTS
Jackie Zollo Brooks, Chinaberries
Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, She Must Remember
Gwendoline Riley, A. Born etc.
Mitchell Stocks, We Chinese
KNIGHTVILLE POETRY FINALISTS
Ioanna Carlsen, Two Variations on a Borrowed Phrase
Kevin Carollo, A Theory
Mary Christine Delea, My Villain
Rob Dennis, Why I Am Not a Tech Writer
Jaydn DeWald, Epithalamium (or, Landscape with Soldier)
Nicole DiCello, The Long Emergency
William Doreski, Confess to Me
Iris Jamahl Dunkle, How to Cope in a New Landscape
Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, The Deepest Hours
Robin Michel, The Boy and the Moon
Marcia Popp, when she died she took all her best stories with her
Melissa Roberts, Resurgam: Portland, Maine
Don Schofield, Shepherd
Terese Svoboda, Car Problem
Ken Taylor, foursome
Elaine Zimmerman, The Floor Rattled with Us
KNIGHTVILLE POETRY SEMI-FINALISTS
Austin Allen, Valentine Variations
Heather Altfeld, Annals of the Orphelines
Luke Bramley, All the Pretty Lights
Mary Christine Delea, Purr
Lynn Tudor Deming, In Gipsies’ Cant
Chad Frisbie, Q
Lyall Harris, Etching
Kenya T. Jennings, Epiphany
Matthew Keuter, Verisimilitude and Other Untruths
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingde, Marlene Dietrich Meets Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Wulf Losee, The Nautilus Motel
Shahé Mankerian, The Mosaic of the Missing
Nikolas James Perez, Dedication
Jeannie Tomasko, Crossword Sonnet: Codes
Julie Marie Wade, Grammar
THE NEW GUARD 2011 contests are officially closed.
2011 winners, finalists and semi-finalists are published in the 2011 book. We do not publish online. The current issue features unpublished work by Ralph Ellison and an interview with his literary executor, John Callahan.
KNIGHTVILLE POETRY CONTEST $1,000 for an exceptional work of narrative and/or experimental poetry. Three poems per entry. Up to 300 lines per poem. Judged by former U.S. Poet Laureate CHARLES SIMIC
MACHIGONNE FICTION CONTEST $1,000 for an exceptional work of literary and/or experimental fiction. Submit up to 7,500 words: anything from flash to the long story. Novel excerpts are welcome if the manuscript functions as a stand-alone story. We do not publish illustrations.Judged by novelist and author of The Pure Lover, DAVID PLANTE
Previously unpublished work only. Any printed version (any size print run) or online publication (including blogs and/or social networking) immediately disqualify your entry. Simlutaneous submissions accepted, provided we're notified upon publication elsewhere. Another caviat of simultaneous submissions: should we accept your story or poem for publication, you must immediately remove that story or poem from all other contests (until we publish your story or poem) as it is an obvious conflict of interest for TNG.
You can submit online via our submissions manager or by postal mail with a check for the entry fee. TNG cannot return manuscripts. We accept .doc or similar files--no PDFs, please. The fee for each contest is $15. We pay strict attention to word and line count. Each submission is considered for publication. Judging is done blind. We do not presently accept submissions aside from our contests.
TNG retains standard first publication rights; all rights revert to the writer upon publication. Contest winners and all finalists get two copies of TNG.
SUBMISSIONS
The 2011 contests are officially closed as of Sept. 22. Thanks to all who entered!
Our submissions manager is also closed until our next round of contests in 2012. Judges and dates for the 2012 contests are TBA.
TNG does not presently offer open submissions. Manuscripts sent to TNG outside of our contests will not be considered for publication. Questions should be directed to info@newguardreview.com.
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Portland, ME 04104
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TNG 2011 features A Storm of Blizzard Proportions (1944) by Ralph Ellison, a complete finished story which has never before been in print, and has only been read by a handful of people! Alongside A Storm of Blizzard Proportions, we've published a reproduction the original typewritten pages, straight from The Library of Congress.
Also included in this special section is an interview of John Callahan, Mr. Ellison's literary executor and author of A Man You Could Love. We are excited by this tremendous opportunity to share Mr. Ellison's work with our readers and writers.
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TNG 2011 is a deluxe trade paperback with French flaps of 334 pages. Cover art is by Maine artist Jeff McCreight.
2011 Contest Winners: Knightville Poetry Contest winner: Kathleen Spivack; 2011 Machigonne Fiction Contest winner: Dan Marmor. All 2011 contests finalists and semi-finalists (both genres) are also published in this issue.
The 2011 Letters Section: "Writers to Superheroes and Supervillains." Letter contributors: Joe Wenderoth, Tim Seibles, Tod Goldberg, Fred Marchant, Michael Kimball, Ed Skoog, Carolina De Robertis, Aaron Hamburger, Sarah Braunstein, James Zimmerman, Alexandra Oliver & Mike Heppner. A special illustration by local artist dave naybor (Dave Peabody) precedes the letters kicks off this year's group.
TNG 2011 has a new section called "Twenty Questions," to honor Maine's rich writing tradition. It's TNG's ode to writers who have lived and worked in Maine. Writers playing 20Q for 2011 are Tess Gerritsen, Liz Hand & former Maine Poet Laureate Baron Wormser.
We are also be featuring two established writers in this volume: Theodore Deppe & Cortright McMeel.TNG is grateful to our incredible 2011 judges: former U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic & novelist and author of The Pure Lover, DAVID PLANTE.
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TNG 2010 features previously unpublished essays by two phenomenal Maine writers, Jaed Coffin & Bill Roorbach.
2010 Knightville Poetry Contest winner: William Derge; 2010 Machigonne Fiction Contest winner: Payne Ratner.
Our most gracious 2010 judges: former U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall & Good for the Jews author Debra Spark.
Issue 2010's letters: "Writers to Writers: Fan Letters to the Dead," a collection of fan letters to dead writers. Fan Letter contributors include: Sven Birkirts, Tom Grimes, Maxine Kumin, Thomas Lynch & Josip Novakovich.
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THE NEW GUARD
P.O. Box 10612
Portland, ME 04104
Founding Editor & Publisher:
2011 Contest Editors:
Sarah Kowalski, Fiction
Shanna McNair, Fiction, Poetry
Bill Roorbach, Fiction
Suzanne Strempek Shea, Fiction
Scott Wolven, Fiction
2011 Special Sections:
Shanna McNair
Scott Wolven
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