AMERICA IS BACK...
And to celebrate her 250th, Ark Press is bringing back the Great American Novel, giving the Land of the Free the literature she deserves—and exporting our freedom-loving, frontier-taming brand of storytelling to the rest of the globe.
And WE WANT YOU to write it!
Send us your best science fiction, fantasy, political or espionage thrillers. Send us your alternate histories, literary novels, and crime fiction brainteasers. Send us whatever your Red-, White-, and Blue-blooded imagination can conjure. But don’t send us your tired, poor, huddled masses of warmed-over trunk stories.
Novels only, by the way. We want stories as big as the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, Teddy Roosevelt’s grin. Stories the size of Texas and Alaska—put together! Stories so expansive they reach from sea to shining sea and so deep they fill the Grand Canyon.
Your Theme:
AMERICA 2076
Your Reward:
$10,000 ADVANCE
PUBLICATION JULY 4TH, 2026
Declare your Independence from insipid, boring genre fiction.
Enter the Ark Prize.
Read the full guidelines and submit your novel here.
The Humans Win in the End.