Mission

Newfound is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit publisher based in Austin, Texas, on the ancestral lands of the Tonkawa, Comanche, and Apache. Our work investigates how place shapes identity, imagination, and understanding through our print and digital publications and events.

Projects

Newfound is closed to new manuscripts until further notice while we steward the passing of our prizes and projects to another nonprofit press. We are excited to share our final 2024 catalog with you this fall. Our web store remains open with royalties continuing to support our authors.

We publish poetry chapbooks through the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Poetry Prize and Emerging Poets Series and prose chapbooks through the Newfound Prose Prize.

Commitments

We are committed to recruiting, nurturing, publishing, and promoting exceptional writers and artists from diverse and underrepresented voices. Newfound is an inclusive community with a full range of human identities and differences, both visible and invisible, including beliefs, experiences, backgrounds, age, ability, race, class, faith, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender expression and identity, language, and nationality. We create a supportive, safe, and empowering space for writers, artists, readers, and volunteers. Newfound is a home for like-hearted, creative people to feel valued, respected, and a sense of belonging.

Hate has no home here. We recognize hate is not only a sentiment or conscious act, but institutional and embedded in practices and policies that punish, degrade, marginalize, and discriminate, and we work actively to dismantle white cis heteropatriarchal structures within our organization.