59th NMW Award for Poetry.
Sara Shea of Asheville, North Carolina for “Customs”
An evocative rumination on heritage, familial connection, and citizenship, Shea’s poem is a dynamic lament that grows more achingly relevant by the day.
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First Place Winners, Finalists, and Honorable Mentions of the 60th New Millennium Writing Awards!
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60th NMW Award for Flash Fiction.
J.P. Bellipanni of Cape Neddick, Maine for “The Curator of Forgotten Things”
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59th NMW Award for Nonfiction.
Jerelle Kraus, of New York City & San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, for “2 & 1/2 Hours Alone with Nixon, the Aniti-Trump
Set against the backdrop of her long-ago meeting with former president Richard Nixon, Kraus offers this blistering and poignant comparison of two disgraced U.S. presidents—one who resigned the office to “put the interests of America first,” and one who threatens to never leave it.
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59th NMW Award for Fiction.
Baird Harper of Oak Park, Illinois for “Indian Ocean”
A lifetime ago, one of NASA’s finest rocket men splashed back down to Earth and all its mundanities. Fifty years later, his latest mission is to a Montana cattle farm to handle the latest PR disaster of commercial space company Vector Intergalactic.
His journey from that life to this one has often felt longer and lonelier than a 238,900-mile moon trip, and lately he’s caught himself wondering: Did I really make it home safe? Or am I still trapped in that space capsule somewhere beneath the waves of the Indian Ocean?
Indian Ocean | Baird Harper Read More »
First Place Winners, Finalists, and Honorable Mentions of the 59th New Millennium Writing Awards!
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59th NMW Award for Flash Fiction.
JR Fenn of Rochester, New York for “Memory Box”
The creative elements Fenn weaves together here—the world-building, story arcs, and depths of character—are nothing short of stunning. Take a peek inside “Memory Box” for a glimpse of Flash Fiction at its finest!
Memory Box | JR Fenn Read More »
NMW Winner | Poem of the Week Contest
Trish Lindsey Jaggers of Bowling Green, Kentucky for “What Dancing Is”
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NMW Winner | Poem of the Week Contest
Kevin Swanwick of Walden, New York for “Tell the Bees”
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Winners and Finalists of our Poem of the Week Awards!
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