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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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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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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First Place Winners, Finalists, and Honorable Mentions of the 56th New Millennium Writing Awards!
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56th NMW Award for Flash Fiction. Gretta Trafficante for “The Curse of Calloused Feet”
A beautifully strange meditation on curses, on the fates thrust upon us, and the identities we shape for ourselves.
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55th NMW Award for Nonfiction.
Michael Hogan of Guadalajara, Mexico for “Kissed by Allen Ginsberg”
Michael Hogan’s “Kissed by Allen Ginsberg” captures the blessed, blissed-out joy of remembering that people contain multitudes, and that once in a while life is so much stranger and more awe-inspiring than we give it credit for.
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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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55th NMW Award for Poetry.
B. Fulton Jennes of Ridgefield, Connecticut for “Father to Son”
Tender, stirring wisdom any child would be lucky to carry with them on this journey through existence.
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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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First Place Winners, Finalists, and Honorable Mentions of the 55th New Millennium Writing Awards!
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