Katie Bickham of Shreveport, LA has won the 43rd New Millennium Poetry Prize for “Shorn.” She will receive $1,000 and publication both online and in print. Katie’s book, The Belle Mar(2015), won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize. Katie’s poems have appeared in Rattle, Southern Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. She received The Missouri Review Editor’s Prize […]
Our Editor Emeritus, Don Williams, was moved nearly to tears the first time he read this fine poem. Its lines evoke the lushness and possibility of youth and remind the reader that eventually the garden within each of us must return to the earth. –NMW
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Issue: #25 Available: 2016 Editor: Alexis Williams Carr Published by: New Millennium Writings Format: Paperback Price: $16 (psst. this issue is currently $11 on Amazon) THE “EVOLVE” ISSUE Outstanding Stories, Poems, and Other Imaginings on… TROMP!, Bowing to the Minuscule, Walrus Kings, Fog Made of Iron, Buddhist Cosmetology, the Milky Way in L.A, and more. NEW MILLENNIUM AWARD WINNERS This issue features
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Each time I read Amon’s story, the lines of a favorite Paul Simon song, ‘Slip Slidin’ Away,’ ran through my head. For anyone who worries that the best parts of life have gotten away from you, this story is here to remind us that sometimes we let things escape because otherwise… —NMW
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Polsgrove’s story captures perfectly the angst of growing up in a place you can’t belong, a town where the best things in your life are the ones you can’t tell anyone about, and where you make your escape every chance you get. —NMW
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Award Winners & Finalists of the 42nd New Millennium Writing Awards!
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Hospice nurses discovered the body at his Fort Sanders apartment about 10 a.m. and I was called to identify him and take charge of the estate. He was 62. Garrett lived to see HarperCollins publish In the Country of Desire, which a Los Angeles Times critic called a masterpiece…In a letter regarding his terminal illness, Garrett wrote, “I regret the stories and novels that will now go unwritten, and the people I loved whose voices I will never hear again.” — Don Williams
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A murderous sheriff, an indigent ex-baseball star, and a lone boy trying to make sense of the madness his town has grown accustomed to. In his stirring recollection of small-town Texas, our Nonfiction Winner’s empathetic portrayal brings each character to life and his lyrical prose makes the essay sing. —NMW
A Brief and Necessary Madness | Kirk Wilson Read More »
NMW’s Editor Emeritus and Founder, Don Williams, was entrusted with a very special role at The 13th Annual East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame Ceremony.
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One of the best poems I’ve read in my life. The music, the scope… Brilliant! —G.A.
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