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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Literary Awards
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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Lines in Algonquin | David Sloan
55th NMW Award for Poetry.
David Sloan of Brunswick, Maine for “Lines in Algonquin”
Sloan’s “Lines in Algonquin” is a transportive meditation on primal paradoxes.
Why does experiencing Nature alone reveal one’s connection to every living thing? How can a moonless sky make us feel inconsequential yet intricately linked to every falling star? For those who could happily spend a lifetime pondering such questions, this poem is for you.
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Saved | Rebecca Godwin
56th NMW Award for Fiction. Rebecca Godwin for “Saved”
TThere’s something mesmerizing about a heroine on the verge of discovering her own power… however unexpected the reveal.
Godwin’s story, “Saved,” delivers that pleasure in spades, and lots more besides, reminding us that salvation is surely in the eye of the beholder.
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