My Last Story | Susan Hettinger
NMW Fear Award
Susan Hettinger of Olympia, Washington for “My Last Story”
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What Lies in Sapient Lake | Melissa Bowers
NMW Fear Award
Melissa Bowers of Gilroy, California for “What Lies in Sapient Lake”
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It Goes Both Ways | Kate Simonian
57th NMW Award for Fiction.
Kate Simonian of San Bernardino for “It Goes Both Ways”
Smack dab into a marriage gone sideways, a naked stranger appears one night…and his nudity may be the least strange thing about him. Is he a time traveler? A folie à deux? Or the last hope for a couple to find their way back to each other?
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Saved | Rebecca Godwin
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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Baptism by Earth | Mekiya Outini
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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Ghost Story | Carrie Grinstead
54th NMW Award for Fiction. Carrie Grinstead of Los Angeles, California for “Ghost Story”
Which is scarier…the ghost in your backyard or the ones in your heart? Grinstead’s haunting tale has both, and plenty else to terrify. “Ghost Story” will hold you in its grip long after you’ve finished reading.
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Baptism | Ellen Pauley Goff
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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Mapping Hana | Cassady Black
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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