New Millennium Writing Awards 57 | 2024
First Place Winners, Finalists, and Honorable Mentions of the 57th New Millennium Writing Awards!
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Fiction
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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New Millennium Writing Awards 56 | 2023
First Place Winners, Finalists, and Honorable Mentions of the 56th New Millennium Writing Awards!
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Baptism by Earth | Mekiya Outini
55th NMW Award for Poetry.
Mekiya Outini of Kansas City, Missouri for “Baptism by Earth”
At heart a love story, Outini’s brilliant work explores identity, rebirth, environmental collapse and metamorphosis, and indeed the very notion of what it means to be “a human thing.”
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Molten | Jacob Orlando
55th NMW Award for Flash Fiction. Jacob Orlando for “Molten”
The unique setting of each vignette in Orlando’s “Molten” underscores a collective truth of our times. There is a fire burning through this land, flames licking at every place people turn to for comfort, solace, joy. Some will be consumed, but all will be forged by the terrible heat.
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New Millennium Writing Awards 55 | 2023
First Place Winners, Finalists, and Honorable Mentions of the 55th New Millennium Writing Awards!
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Ghost Story | Carrie Grinstead
54th NMW Award for Fiction. Carrie Grinstead of Los Angeles, California for “Ghost Story”
Which is scarier…the ghost in your backyard or the ones in your heart? Grinstead’s haunting tale has both, and plenty else to terrify. “Ghost Story” will hold you in its grip long after you’ve finished reading.
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New Millennium Writing Awards 54 | 2022
First Place Winners, Finalists, and Honorable Mentions of the 54th New Millennium Writing Awards!
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Persephone | Amina Gautier
54th NMW Award for Flash Fiction. Amina Gautier of Chicago, Illinois for “Persephone”
Gautier’s story digs in sharp and deep, rooting through mythological narrative to explore the dual natures of light and dark, and the transformational powers awaiting those brave enough to unearth them.
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Baptism | Ellen Pauley Goff
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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