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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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47th New Millennium Award for Fiction
Erzsébet Gilbert of Fort Collins, Colorado for “The Dog Days”
Dusty, dreamlike, and full of yearning, “The Dog Days” unfolds at an unhurried pace. Gilbert methodically unleashes her tale, unearthing treasures tarnished and buried just below the rubble.
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New Millennium Award for Fiction
Patricia Sammon of Huntsville, Alabama for “Since”
In “Since,” Patricia wields a masterful first-person narrative to fully arc the life of a 19th-century family and the joys, sorrows, and possibilities our memories contain.
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New Millennium Award for Fiction
Patrick Dawson of London, England for “The Language of Rivers”
Full of wanderers and deception, and something close to love, Patrick’s masterfully crafted story is quick to engage and gradual to reveal. Dive in and let “The Language of Rivers” spill its secrets.
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A soldier hellbent on getting himself honorably discharged, and the waitress who changed everything when he saw the way the sun itself tried to reach her with its gaze. Nothing kinky here… just true young love up against this endless war. —NMW
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Cassady Black of Denver, Colorado has won the 43rd New Millennium Fiction Prize for “Mapping Hana.” She will receive $1,000 and publication both online and in print. “A haunting and enchanting mystery. From the startling first lines to each smoldering revelation, readers will be delightfully lured into this map of a marriage whose true north has vanished
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Each time I read Amon’s story, the lines of a favorite Paul Simon song, ‘Slip Slidin’ Away,’ ran through my head. For anyone who worries that the best parts of life have gotten away from you, this story is here to remind us that sometimes we let things escape because otherwise… —NMW
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