Copyright © 1999 NLThomas
All Rights Reserved

New Rivers Press seeks submissions for a collection of Native American Indian women's writing to be published in 2001. Short stories, memoir, creative nonfiction prose, and poetry written by Native American women will be considered for publication.

The editors are seeking work that celebrates, records, and explores Native American Indian women's roles in community. Of particular interest is writing that mirrors the oral tradition or uses Native language in accessible ways.

Voices of all age groups are welcome as is work that suggests the full range of Native women's experience, their lives in the and on the reservation, as parents and professionals, in tradition and transformation, as keepers of culture and of community.

Submissions should be typed or word-processed on 8 1/2" by 11" paper. Send three copies of your copies of your submission, a short bio that describes your heritage, and a SASE for results to;

Editors Laura Tohe and Heid Erdrich
c/o New Rivers Press
420 North Fifth St., Suite 938
Minneapolis, MN 55401

We will consider only work that is previously unpublished. No submissions will be returned. Multiple submissions okay. Deadline: January 15, 2000.

Source: New Rivers Press