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Here's news you might've missed from New Millennium Writings during the holiday crush...

If you entered any of our contests in 2011, watch your postal box in February for your free quality paperback anthology featuring interviews with American Book Award winner Pamela Uschuk and the Robert Penn Warren Award winner Allen Wier, plus winners of our 2011 NMW Awards.  The quality in this contest was high, and we're proud of our winners (see below).    

The final deadline in our Winter Contest is midnight Jan. 31, 2012 (postmark OK) or enter online.

$4,000 in Prizes, plus publication in NMW and on the Web at www.NewMillenniumWritings.com (Read the Winners).

$1,000 for best Fiction; $1,000 best Short-short Story; $1,000 for best Poem; $1,000 for best Nonfiction (includes memoir, creative nonfiction, travel, opinion, true humor, essay, interview, features, investigative reporting, etc.)

Winners of NMW Awards are showcased along with interviews, profiles and tributes to writers past and present, such as Nikki Giovanni, J. D. Salinger, Cormac McCarthy, Lucille Clifton, Allen Wier, Pamela Uschuk, Julia Glass, Kurt Vonnegut, Shel Silverstein, Khaled Hosseini, George Garrett, Ken Kesey, John Updike, Lee Smith, Shelby Foote, Norman Mailer, Sharyn McCrumb, William Kennedy, Walker Percy, Robert Penn Warren and many others. Also, prize-winning stories, poems & articles, humor, graphic arts & more.

All who enter will receive a free copy of our 2013 Journal, next winter.

Judges include poet William Pitt Root and NMW founding editor Don Williams. Winners will be announced in April and May.

 

To Enter, follow these Guidelines, or enter on-line at www.writingawards.com. 

1. No restrictions as to style, content or number of submissions. Enter as often as you like.

2. Winners and selected finalists--including all poetry finalists--will be published in our 2013 issue and/or on-line at www.NewMillenniumWritings.com.

3. Send between now and midnight of Jan. 31, 2012.

4. Simultaneous & multiple submissions welcome.

5. Each fiction or nonfiction piece is counted as a separate entry, and should total no more than 6,000 words except Short-short Fiction (no more than 1,000 words).

6. Each poetry entry may include up to three poems, not to exceed five pages total per entry. All 20 poetry finalists will be published.

7. Include name, phone, address, email & category on cover page with your submission.

8. Manuscripts not returned. Include email address or SASE for list of winners.

9. Include $17 check drawn on an American bank, payable to NMW with each submission.

10. Enter online at www.writingawards.com or send by U.S. Mail or other carrier to: "NMW" Room EM, PO Box 2463, Knoxville, TN, 37901. To order a sample issue, add $10.

 

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As previously reported, Jacob Appel of New York City, won New Millennium Writings’ $1,000 Fiction Prize for “Invasive Species,” the story of a dying girl’s ventures into the afterworld, as her mother struggles with love and loss. Acclaimed novelist Allen Wier, who judged the contest, wrote: “The characters in ‘Invasive Species’ are larger-than-life and totally compelling; they are so fresh and vividly made that they have merged with my life. The language is richly textured, the details are totally convincing, and the tone is near-perfect. I've not read a more inventive story in a long while. This juxtaposition of myth and reality will haunt readers in many lovely ways.” Appel’s story will appear in the 2012 issue of NMW, this winter, and also at our website, along with winners in other categories, all poetry Honorable Mentions and selected others. Read all the other winners from 2011 at our website.  

Honorable Mentions for Fiction were as follows
Marlene Roberts Banet, Highland Beach, FL
Rachel N. Bay, Woodbury, MN
Elizabeth Buchanan, Darnestown, MD
Joy Clumsky, Lawrence, KS
Kathy Conde, Superior, CO
Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger, New York, NY
James Gish, Jr., Arcanum, OH
Kirk Walker Graves, Nashville, TN
Larry Hill, Fresno, CA
Dwight Hinson, Hohenwald, TN
Helen Hooper, Arlington, VA
Nahal Suzanne Jamir, Tallahassee, FL
Susan Land, Bethesda, MD
K. Malton, Ontario, CAN
M. Grace Matthews, Albany, NY
Robin McLean, Bristol, NH
Morgan Smith, Santa Fe, NM
Eliezor Sobel, Richmond, VA,
Geoffrey Trumbo, Mobile, AL
Sonja Vitow, Brighton, MA

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Have a great New Year.