53rd NMW Award for Nonfiction.
Janine Kovac of Oakland, CA for “Dancing on the Blade”
An essay on the worth of all humans, and of the healing power of taking up space and reminding those who need to hear it most: You are Beloved.
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53rd NMW Award for Poetry.
A. E. Wynter of St. Paul, Minnesota for “To the protesters on Vandalia”
A poem to remind us that the fight is far from over.
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53rd NMW Award for Fiction.
It’s easy to forget there are places small and remote enough to have escaped the inexorable pull of “progress”… places that still bow to laws and customs all their own. Easy, too, to underestimate just how strong the clutches of those places can be.
Part ode to, part interrogation of the Southern Gothic genre, Goff’s story is here to remind us that though we may be done with the past, the past is seldom done with us.
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First Place Winners, Finalists, and Honorable Mentions of the 53rd New Millennium Writing Awards!
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53rd NMW Award for Flash Fiction.
This affectionate and delightful tale reminds us that to offer true love and support, we must sometimes be willing to throw off the shackles of logic.
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First Place Winners, Finalists, and Honorable Mentions of the 52nd New Millennium Writing Awards!
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52nd NMW Award for Nonfiction.
Melanie Hoffert of Battle Lake, Minnesota for “Bird Rearing During a Pandemic,”
In times of turmoil, when threats loom both externally and all-too-internally, what good can it possibly do to rescue one tiny beating heart? As Hoffert’s essay so marvelously reminds us, sometimes our own heart gets rescued too.
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51st NMW Award for Poetry.
John Cullen of Big Rapids, Michigan for “Almost There”
Equal parts hopefulness and peaceful resignation, “Almost There” left this Editor with a lump in her throat and a song in her heart.
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52nd NMW Award for Fiction.
Teresa Burns Gunther of Gualala for “War Paint”
Gunther’s story, an intimate portrayal of the family ties that bind and the unspoken fears and hurts that threaten to unravel them all, is a multi-layered masterpiece!
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52nd NMW Award for Flash Fiction.
Myna Chang of Potomac, Maryland for ”An Alternate Theory Regarding Natural Disasters…,”
It’s not often that our top entry is also the most hopeful one. Chang’s imagining of a small town finding silver linings among the rubble is that story.
An Alternate Theory Regarding Natural Disasters | Myna Chang Read More »
