Sari Rose has won the 12th New Millennium Fiction Prize for “The Daughter of Retail.” She will receive $1,000 and publication both online and in print. A Note from the Author “This is a story I always wanted to write. I had the store, the family, the bras. What I didn’t have was a way in, […]
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Poetry Writing Contest XII (2001)
First Place
Sometime ago my father bit into an apple then placed it on a window sill. For a moment it seemed a moth had settled on the apple. I remember picking up the apple and its weight brought back a memory of walking hand in hand with my father through a bus station. I knew I had the raw materials for a poem. But for a long time the poem wouldn’t surface through the blankness of the page. Over and over I kept focusing on the importance of my presence within the poem. I had to return to that moment when my imagination had altered a bite mark into a moth. I began to write from inside that moment. The poem surfaced. I was thankful but humbled by the poem’s simple lesson: Sometimes the imagination exposes you to a new world but leaves you at its doorstep. — Eduardo Corral
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Nonfiction Writing Contest XII (2001)
First Place
Don’t write about something interesting, write about something odd, like nose hair, or the guy who tried to pogo-stick across Czechoslovakia while playing ‘Freebird’ on a viola the whole time. No other songs, just ‘Freebird’.. — Trent Moorman
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