NMW Fear Awards | 2024
Winners and Finalists of the NMW Fear Awards!
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Literary Awards
My Last Story | Susan Hettinger
NMW Fear Award
Susan Hettinger of Olympia, Washington for “My Last Story”
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What Lies in Sapient Lake | Melissa Bowers
NMW Fear Award
Melissa Bowers of Gilroy, California for “What Lies in Sapient Lake”
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Lazarus at Seven AM | Partridge Boswell
NMW Fear Award
Partridge Boswell of Woodstock, Vermont for “Lazarus at Seven AM”
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One on One | Jed Myers
57th NMW Award for Poetry.
Jed Myers of Seattle, Washington for “One on One”
Oh, the adventures we would have, and the wondrous things I would show you…if only I were young again and you were still here with me.
Reader, do longings like these rattle around in your heart? Then this poem is for you.
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Why I Never Get Anywhere, or, A List of Mostly Failed Poetry Ideas Scribbled at the back of Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude | Kim Farrar
57th NMW Award for Nonfiction
Kim Farrar of Astoria, New York
An honest and joy-soaked accounting, Farrar’s essay is an ode to those magical, maddening moments that make up a life, and the brilliant, unfinished poems tucked away in nearly every writer’s mind.
It Goes Both Ways | Kate Simonian
57th NMW Award for Fiction.
Kate Simonian of San Bernardino for “It Goes Both Ways”
Smack dab into a marriage gone sideways, a naked stranger appears one night…and his nudity may be the least strange thing about him. Is he a time traveler? A folie à deux? Or the last hope for a couple to find their way back to each other?
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New Millennium Writing Awards 57 | 2024
First Place Winners, Finalists, and Honorable Mentions of the 57th New Millennium Writing Awards!
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Blank Many Days | Doug Crandell
57th NMW Award for Flash Fiction.
Doug Crandell of Douglasville, Georgia for “Blank Many Days”
Brief and brilliant, Crandell’s story centers on a gentle giant and the boy who idolizes him. Set against the whorl and grind of a factory floor, “Blank Many Days” explores courage, responsibility, and the complex glory of masculinity.
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Teaching Mom Long Division | Adriana Páramo
56th NMW Award for Nonfiction.
Adriana Páramo of Medellin, Columbia for “Teaching Mom Long Division”
Just in time for Mother’s Day, Páramo’s essay is a poignant reflection on the shifting tides of the mother-daughter relationship, and the lessons to be learned when we embrace new roles.
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