New Millennium Writing Awards 50 | 2020
First Place Winners, Finalists, and Honorable Mentions of the 50th New Millennium Writing Awards!
Excelsior | Robyn Carter
50th NMW Award for Flash Fiction.
Robyn Carter of San Francisco, California for ”Excelsior,”
a hypnotic and crystalline study in traveling on to the next destination, even as the body tries to serve what’s already gone.
grandfather: a dialect of water | Ian Khara Ellasante
An ode to those who shape us and teach us how to flow through this life.
Major Tom | C.C. Lewis
What would you trade for the answer to your heart’s most fervent question?
Man becomes-myth-becomes-specter in Lewis’s distant and mesmerizing tale.
Pale Shepherd | JR Boudreau
First Place | Nonfiction Writing Contest XLIX 49TH NEW MILLENNIUM AWARD FOR NONFICTION JR Boudreau of Ontario, Canada for “Pale Shepherd” Boudreau will receive $1,000, a plaque to …
New Millennium Writing Awards XLIX | 2020
First Place Winners, Finalists, and Honorable Mentions of the 49th New Millennium Writing Awards!
On the Origin of Species | Lee Thomas
49th New Millennium Award for Flash Fiction
Lee Thomas of Los Angeles, California for ”On the Origin of Species”
Though written well before the global pandemic, Thomas’s story gets right to the heavy, racing heart of these uncertain times. We’re honored to share this beautiful, poignant story.
Addendum | Hannah Perrin King
48th New Millennium Award for Poetry
Hannah Perrin King of Cool, California for ”Addendum”
King’s poem is a quiet masterpiece, a revelatory and reverent ode to the fate that awaits every living thing.
Free Energy | Cora Cruz
48th New Millennium Award for Fiction
Cora Cruz of Forest Hills, New York for ”Free Energy”
Cruz unites her considerable literary and philosophical talents to present “Free Energy,” a treatise on human happiness and a triumph of both form and function.
Gracias a la Vida | Laura Rose
48th New Millennium Award for Nonfiction
Laura Rose of Bucks County, Pennsylvania for “Gracias a la Vida”
A heartfelt essay about the author’s journey into grassroots activism, “Gracias a la Vida” is a crystal-clear reminder that the personal is always political.