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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53rd NMW Award for Nonfiction.
Janine Kovac of Oakland, CA for “Dancing on the Blade”
An essay on the worth of all humans, and of the healing power of taking up space and reminding those who need to hear it most: You are Beloved.
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53rd NMW Award for Poetry.
A. E. Wynter of St. Paul, Minnesota for “To the protesters on Vandalia”
A poem to remind us that the fight is far from over.
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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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53rd NMW Award for Flash Fiction.
This affectionate and delightful tale reminds us that to offer true love and support, we must sometimes be willing to throw off the shackles of logic.
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52nd NMW Award for Nonfiction.
Melanie Hoffert of Battle Lake, Minnesota for “Bird Rearing During a Pandemic,”
In times of turmoil, when threats loom both externally and all-too-internally, what good can it possibly do to rescue one tiny beating heart? As Hoffert’s essay so marvelously reminds us, sometimes our own heart gets rescued too.
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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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On reunion and loss, on being back in the fold and being caught in the web, on free will and the things we cannot change. One woman’s story about finding the family she never had and the heartbreak that can come from having so many people to love. –NMW
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Our Editor Emeritus, Don Williams, was moved nearly to tears the first time he read this fine poem. Its lines evoke the lushness and possibility of youth and remind the reader that eventually the garden within each of us must return to the earth. –NMW
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A murderous sheriff, an indigent ex-baseball star, and a lone boy trying to make sense of the madness his town has grown accustomed to. In his stirring recollection of small-town Texas, our Nonfiction Winner’s empathetic portrayal brings each character to life and his lyrical prose makes the essay sing. —NMW
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