Writing Awards XLVIII
48th New Millennium Award for Poetry
Hannah Perrin King of Cool, California for Addendum
Hannah Perrin King’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Narrative Magazine, The Adroit Journal, The Missouri Review, North American Review, THRUSH Poetry Journal and Best New Poets, among others. She lives in rural California and is the deputy poetry editor at Alaska Quarterly Review.
48th New Millennium Award for Fiction
Cora C. Cruz of Forest Hills, New York for Free Energy
Cruz is an independent scholar in New York. She studied philosophy at Hamilton College and then at the New School for Social Research. Cruz’s publications include short fiction, academic work, and a recent novel, The Meditations of Manuel de la Vega.
* * This is the author’s first literary award. * *
48th New Millennium Award for Flash Fiction
Kristina Woods of New Canaan, Connecticut for Getaway
Woods is currently working on a novel about deception and regret in suburbia. “Getaway” is her first published story.
* * This is the author’s first literary award and “Getaway” will be her first work to appear in a print publication. * *
48th New Millennium Award for Nonfiction
Laura Rose of Bucks County, Pennsylvania for Gracias a la Vida
Laura Rose, an advertising copywriter and manager, lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with her husband and daughter. Her nonfiction has appeared in Narrative, Memoir Journal, and Bucks County Writer. She is also an activist and grassroots organizer for PA Statewide Indivisible.
* * This is the author’s first literary award for nonfiction. * *
— FINALISTS —
POETRY
Audrey Burges
North Chesterfield, Virginia
“How to Lift Your Dead”
Roger Camp
Seal Beach, California
“Unfledged”
C.W. Emerson
Palm Springs, California
“What Was Promised”
Robert Franklin
Brooklyn, New York
“Dishes”
Christina Grant
Branchton, Ontario, Canada
“Death by Drowning”
Ginny Hoyle
Denver, Colorado
“I Think We Have Time for One More Question”
Catherine Johnson
Berkeley, California
“Even the Sparrow”
Sandy Longley
Delmar, New York
“Aubade, for J.W.”
Gregory Loselle
Southgate, Michigan
“Jay at the Window”
Timothy Martin
Ann Arbor, Michigan
“A Nun with a Chainsaw”
Lucian Mattison
Washington, D.C.
“Trucker”
Dheepa Maturi
Carmel, Indiana
“Alone Together”
Laura Mazza-Dixon
Granby, Connecticut
“The Year in Pictures”
Celeste McMaster
Charleston, S.C.
“Courtship”
Eva Parish
New York, New York
“She Seems Like a Nice Girl with a Mean Streak”
Arien Reed
Fresno, California
“Hero Everafter”
Faith Shearin
Amherst, Massachusetts
“Shadows”
John Jay Speredakos
New York, New York
“Mars Ever Nearer”
Stephen Toskar
Chitose-shi, Hokkaido, Japan
“Repaying an Immigrant for Teaching Me How to Steal, Long Island, May 1955”
Barbara Ungar
Saratoga Springs, NY
“Lonesomest George”
FICTION
Candace Armstrong
Murphysboro, Illinois
“Tilt”
Katie Barnes
Nashville, Tennessee
“Open Letter to Rose”
Doro Boehme
Evanston, Illinois
“The Snow Globe”
Chris Burns
San Francisco, California
“Principessa di Fiamme, Princess of Flames”
Grant Carmichael
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
“No Thrills”
Srijan Dubey
Mumbai, India
“Departure”
Hannah Faver
Southampton, United Kingdom
“Eagle Peak”
Laura Herbst
Portland, Oregon
“Towels, 1977-79”
Antje Lang
London, UK
“Gentle in the Mourning”
Caroline Mansour
Wilmette, Illinois
“Full Immersion”
James Najarian
Auburndale, Massachusetts
“The Retreat”
N. Page
Toronto Ontario, Canada
“Crane Girl”
Hosanna Patience
Chico, California
“Foreclosure”
Lones Seiber
Morristown, Tennessee
“A Scattering of Blue”
Cal Setar
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“The Most Famous Man in Philadelphia, PA”
KT Sparks
Greenville, Virginia
“Triangle of Life”
Ken Stahl
Tucson, Arizona
“Like Magpies on a Snowy Field”
Quinton Steele
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
“A Trip in the Ocean”
Carol Test
Scottsdale, Arizona
“Rain Dogs”
Thomas Westerfield
San Francisco, California
“Surviving”
FLASH FICTION
Atticus Allison
Raleigh, North Carolina
“Soft Briars”
Kelly Bedbrook
Waterloo, Ontario
“Off Eighth”
Chad Broughman
Harbor Springs, Michigan
“In one fell swoop…”
Christina Grant
Branchton, Ontario
“The Book of Lasts”
Michael Gruver
Louisville, Kentucky
“The Bathroom Vortex”
Katharine Hargreaves
Los Angeles, California
“Are you done being wild?”
Lydia Kaup
Wilmette, Illinois
“The Bluff”
Robert Kostanczuk
Crown Point, Indiana
“A Masquerade for Poe”
Eimear Laffan
Nelson, British Columbia
“The Backwaters Behind Your Eyes”
Philip Liu
Lexington, Massachusetts
“Going Up?”
John Mattson
Encino, California
“Object Permanence”
Kelsey Montague
Denver, Colorado
“How to Get the Pennies Back”
Justin Neff
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“Too Late or Too Soon”
Christian O’Callaghan-Leue
Amsterdam, New York
“Skin”
Thomas Peer
Phoenix, Arizona
“A Bravery Betrayed”
Alice Phung
Davis, California
“My Promise to You”
Samantha Pilecki
Freehold, New Jersey
“White Wolves, 1887”
Bill Ratner
Los Angeles, California
“Greyhound”
Keilly Ulery
Boynton Beach, Florida
“On The Matter Of Divorce”
Alexander Willmott
York North, Yorkshire
“Aiko”
NONFICTION
Dani Alpert
New York, New York
“You Can Keep Your Hat on Mr. Lear”
Kelly Beard
Atlanta, Georgia
“Dragons and Dinosaurs”
Shell Bird
Dublin, Ohio
“Heartwood”
Margaret Feike
Columbus, Ohio
“The Coroner’s Case”
Allen Heisler
Reading, Pennsylvania
“Singled Out”
Allison Hong Merrill
Orem, Utah
“Goodbye, Baba”
Linda Jonasson
Ontario, Canada
“Women and Children First: Paying with Life and Limb for the Crimes of Nazi Germany”
Mary Pacifico Curtis
Los Gatos, California
“Honeymoons”
Marci Pliskin
Seattle, Washington
“Beautiful Hands”
Melina Ragazas
Tinos, Cyclades, Greece
“4 1/2 stacks to the sun”
J.R. Rogers
Olympia, Washington
“The Heirloom”
Jamie Smith
Yonkers, New York
“Mythology Lessons”
Morgan Smith
Santa Fe, New Mexico
“A Member of the Family”
KT Sparks
Greenville, Virginia
“ABCANCER”
Sarah Stuteville
Seattle, Washington
“Girl’s History of Consent”
Brandon Sward
Chicago, Illinois
“Depression”
Don Waitt
Tampa, Florida
“The Black Knight Lounge”
Megan Williams
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“Breathing Room”
Cindy Zelman
Stoughton, Massachusetts
“This Will Be a Love Story”
Patrick Zhou
Washington, D.C.
“Call Your Mother”
— Honorable Mentions —
POETRY
Sadaf Chaudhry
Egg Harbor Township, N.J.
“Dreamlight”
Nicholas Eveneshen
Edmonton, Canada
“Helen’s Innocence”
Robbie Frazer
Harrogate, United Kingdom
“192 miles with Clara”
Kendall Krantz
Atlanta, Georgia
“Memorial on the Danube”
Ellen Leary
New York, New York
“The Affair”
Ellaraine Lockie
Sunnyvale, California
“Stepping Over Arizona”
Kurt Luchs
Kalamazoo, Michigan
“Bach’s Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056 (Largo)”
Xafsa Ciise
Santa Cruz, California
“the crossing to/arrangement with god”
Oak Morse
Houston, Texas
“Telling It Like It Is”
Bruce Parker
Portland, Oregon
“Ice Cream”
Emily Ransdell
Camas, Washington
“The Neighbor Boy’s Buck”
Susanna Rich
Blairstown, New Jersey
“I am Lucretia Coffin Mott, Suffrage Pioneer (1793-1880)”
Donna Spector
Warwick, New York
“My Son Calls Me from Los Angeles”
Mitchell Untch
Los Angeles, California
“Elegy and Houses Still Living”
Sheryl White
Roslindale, Massachusetts
“Stellar”
FICTION
Francesca Casilli
London, United Kingdom
“The Good in Us”
James Debenham
London, United Kingdom
“Swarmer”
Therese Eiben
Hudson, New York
“Love You, Bye”
Marcy Henry
Chicago, Illinois
“Come, my friends, ’tis not too late to seek a newer world”
Michael Howerton
San Francisco, California
“The Assembly of the Dead”
Ashish Kaul
Navi Mumbai, India
“Sheen”
Lauren Leach-Steffens
Maryville, Missouri
“The Faun”
Ellen Leary
New York, New York
“Almost Divorced”
Barb Miller
Oracle, Arizona
“Labor of Love”
Albert Norton
Suwanee, Georgia
“Exit and Return”
David Osgood
Holly Springs, North Carolina
“Downriver Guitar”
Patrick Russell
Frisco, Texas
“M.O.D.”
Adam Sifre
Wayne, New Jersey
“News”
Anne Trooper
Tunbridge, Vermont
“Taking on Water”
FLASH FICTION
Hannah Arin
Las Vegas, Nevada
“A Tree’s Dream”
Carolyn E. Campbell
Boulder, Colorado
“High Mountain Burial”
Linda Nemec Foster
Grand Rapids, Michigan
“Babel”
Stephanie Frykholm
Buena Vista, Colorado
“The Lone Olive”
Jessica Gano
Phoenix, Arizona
“Emelia’s Medication”
Greg Georgiadis
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
“The Ones We Remember”
Erzsebet Gilbert
Fort Collins, Colorado
“O! Mr. Petőfi”
Soramimi Hanarejima
Portland, Oregon
“Bequest”
Janis Butler Holm
Los Angeles, California
“Are You an Introvert? Take This Simple Quiz”
Karen Lethlean
Heathcote, NSW, Australia
“Dog Whispers”
Catherine Martino
Elmsford, New York
“The Last Commute”
Adrienne Pond
El Prado, New Mexico, Afghanistan
“Wren”
Oliver St. John
Brooklyn, New York
“Magic Hat”
Krista Tibbs
Knoxville, Tennessee
“Pieces of Life”
Michael Worthington
Elizabeth City, North Carolina
“Vacation From Hell”
NONFICTION
Jade Alexandra
Dripping Springs, Texas
“Pussy”
Katie Barnes
Nashville, Tennessee
“Like Black Peat”
David Dickinson
Melbourne, Florida
“The Dark Side of Town: A Portrait of the Jim Crow South”
Rick Joy
Richmond, Indiana
“Fear and Heights”
Paula Licata
Bellmore, New York
“Surviving an Alcoholic”
Dheepa Maturi
Carmel, Indiana
“A Personal Lexicon”
Susan Narayan
Minneapolis, Minnesota
“Five New Yorks: Thoughts on Parenting from Afar”
Sarah O’Connor
Harrisonburg, Virginia
“Falling”
Della Patterson
Jamaica, New York
“Crumbled Rocks of Mother and Earth”
Diana Raab
Santa Barbara, California
“My Muse, Your Muse: My Friendship with Thomas Steinbeck”
Kenneth Silber
Wyckoff, New Jersey
“When My Family Became Refugees”
Robbie Stofel
Lobelville, Tennessee
“Leppy”
Brian Vlasak
Boston, Massachusetts
“Lineage of Violence”
Jeanne Wilkinson
Brooklyn, New York
“You, Me and Henry”
Sharon Wood Wortman
Brightwood, Oregon
“Voice Lessons”