47th Writing Awards • 2019
New Millennium Award for Poetry
Dale Cottingham of Edmond, Oklahoma for The Lamentation of Rev. Daniel Butrick
Dale Cottingham has published many poems and reviews of poetry collections. He lives in Edmond, Oklahoma.
* * This is the author’s first literary/writing award. * *
New Millennium Award for Fiction
Erzsébet Gilbert of Fort Collins, Colorado for The Dog Days
Gilbert was born in Colorado in 1984. Her first book, Logodaedaly, or, Sleight-of-Words, was released by Wolverine Farm Publishing in 2011, and was Foreword/Indiefab’s Nonfiction Book of the Year. She’s traveled to 53 countries, almost died, and currently lives on a sailboat, devoted to writing, reading, and getting lost.
New Millennium Award for Flash Fiction
Carla Myers of Boalsburg, Pennsylvania for Seven Ravens
With a degree in sculpture and a J.D., Myers followed the most logical path to becoming a writer. Her work has been featured in The Gateway Review, Jabberwock Review, Columbia Journal, Patheos, Muse/A, Streetlight, Convivium, Ethel, Panoplyzine, The Fabulist, The Fingerand Sonder Review’s The Best Small Fictions Anthology 2019.
New Millennium Award for Nonfiction
John Baskin of Wilmington, Ohio for In Search of Leo
Baskin is the author of New Burlington: The Life and Death of an American Village. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Nation, The Yale Review, and other publications.
— FINALISTS —
POETRY
Devreaux Baker
Mendocino, California
“Impossibile Possibilities”
Gary Beaumier
Grafton, Wisconsin
“From Certain Distances in Space I Still See My Brother”
Miranda Beeson
New York, New York
“Ode to a Dime”
F. J. Bergmann
Madison, Wisconsin
“Deception”
Monica Brashears
Luttrell, Tennessee
“The Lineage of a Mulatto as Discovered in Autopsy (1940)”
Rosalind Brenner
East Hampton, New York
“Buddhist Butterfly”
Jane Craven
Raleigh, North Carolina
“De Rerum Natura”
Derick Ebert
Joppa, Maryland
“Demeter & Persephone”
William Ellis
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
“Lost”
Linda Flaherty Haltmaier
Andover, Massachusetts
”To the Brink”
Raphael Kosek
Hopewell Junction, New York
“How to Enter a Russian Novel”
Olivia Koslow
Cambridge, Massachusetts
“Pica”
Claire Laubacher
Portland, Oregon
“Interstitial Somethings”
Sandy Longley
Delmar, New York
“Let Me Be Your River”
Naomi Lowinsky
Pleasant Hill, California
“Why Am I Here?”
Laura Shore
New Brighton, New South Wales, Australia
”To a Lover, Forty-Five Years Later”
John Simonds
Honolulu, Hawaii
“Objects in Motion Reflect”
Heather Treseler
Newton Center, Massachusetts
“In the Woods”
Helica Wu
Memphis, Tennessee
“to old men”
FICTION
Douglas Barry
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“In the Early Stages”
Liz Brennan
Wexford, Republic of Ireland
“Malachy”
Kathy Contant
Greensboro, North Carolina
“Hollow”
Adaeze Elechi
Brooklyn, New York
“Harmattan”
Kristi Gedeon
Fredericksburg, Texas
“Human Resources”
Sean Gill
Brooklyn, New York
“LaGrange”
Howard Givner
Scarsdale, New York
“The Exchange Rate”
Barbara Gurgel
Lowell, Massachusetts
“The Ordinary World”
Will Hearn
Gulf Shores, Alabama
“Stunted Fish”
William Hemmig
Stockton, New Jersey
“Head On”
Jonathan Mathews
London, United Kingdom
“Thinking of You”
Peter Newall
Armidale, NSW, Australia
“Varya’s Black Suede Shoes”
Janika Oza
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
“Factory”
Lara Palmqvist
Faribault, Minnesota
“Orientation”
Judith Peck
Mahwah, New Jersey
“Mechanisms”
Patricia Schultheis
Baltimore, Maryland
“Three Sarahs”
Spencer Smith
Burlington, Vermont
“The Eye”
Julian Wakeling
Lincoln, California
“The Visitor”
Barry Wallace
Highland, California
“Dark Rains and Hurt Things”
Juliet Wittman
Boulder, Colorado
“Jennifer Juniper”
FLASH FICTION
Beth Balousek
Nyack, New York
“Unda Maris”
Stephanie Cotsirilos
Portland, Maine
“Wormhole”
Suzanne Craig-Whytock
Drumbo, Ontario, Canada
“A Childhood in Five Acts”
Daniel Draper
Ilkeston, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
“The Sealwoman’s Baby”
John Haggerty
San Mateo, California
“In the Moments Before the M Train Arrives”
Christine Hanolsy
Portland, Oregon
“Festival”
James Hohenbary
Manhattan, Kansas
“American Dragon”
Annalisa Koukouves
Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
“Dwellers of the Hidden Homes”
Nancy Lendved
Winterville, Georgia
“The End of the Beginning”
Mary Makofske
Warwick, New York
“Home Economics”
Adair McPherson
Davis, California
“Night Waltz”
Lottie Oram
London, United Kingdom
“Theft”
Janika Oza
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
“Price”
Pablo Patino
Deer Park, New York
“I Crunch”
Samantha Pilecki
Freehold, New Jersey
“Lion Let Loose”
Jessie Seigel
Washington, DC
“The Apologia of a Stable Genius”
Jesse Sensibar
Flagstaff, Arizona
“Zion”
Matthew Shepherd
Leigh on Sea, Essex, United Kingdom
“The Maker of the Stars”
Leah Silverman
Brooklyn, New York
“Missing Things, Pt. I”
Dar Thomas
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
“One Too Many”
NONFICTION
Cynthia Dempsey
Napa, California
“The Cure”
Kim Eichstead
South Lyon, Michigan
“Genesis of Rock Bottom”
C Flanagan Flynn
South Windsor, Connecticut
“Before #MeToo”
Anisa George
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“Jamila”
Richard Hague
Cincinnati, Ohio
“Riffs on Memoir in a Small Country Bar”
Jimmy Harney
Brooklyn, New York
“My Data: Deconstructed”
Mary Herrington-Perry
Paris, Illinois
“This Side of Paris”
Porter Huddleston
West Palm Beach, Florida
“In a Yellow Wood”
Janet Mackey
Annandale, Virginia
“Capturing Light”
Kacie Main
Jacksonville Beach, Florida
“mirror mirror”
Edward Myers
Washington, Vermont
“A Shed of His Own”
Carla Myers
Boalsburg, Pennsylvania
“How to Not Get Ovarian Cancer: A Guide for Jewish Women”
Siri Myhrom
Minneapolis, Minnesota
“Vanishing”
H. Ní Aódagaín
Murphy, Oregon
“The Bones of Ireland”
Katy Read
Minneapolis, Minnesota
“Employee Discount”
Robert Silverman
Key West, Florida
“Meditation on Germany”
Susanna Space
Santa Fe, New Mexico
“What Falls to Earth”
Amy Stonestrom
Hudson, Wisconsin
“Every Bird in the Nest”
Noelle Wall
Loudonville, New York
“The Date”
Bradley Wester
Bristol, Rhode Island
“Shiny Object”