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New Millennium Awards for Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction.
http://www.newmillenniumwritings.com/awards.php


Now accepting online submissions for our Twenty-third Consecutive New Millennium Awards for Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction.

$4,000 in Cash Prizes, Plus Publication

• $1,000 for best Poem
• $1,000 for best Fiction
• $1,000 for best Nonfiction
• $1000 for best short-short Fiction (1,000 words maximum)

Winners published in NMW and on this website
20 finalists considered for publication.
The deadline for the current contest has been extended to January 31, 2007. This deadline is final.

To Enter, Follow these Guidelines:

1. No restrictions as to style or content.
2. Winners and selected finalists published in the 2007 issue NMW, which you will receive for entering. Winners will also be published online at this web site.
3. Send any time between now and midnight, January 31, 2007 .
4. Simultaneous & multiple submissions welcome.
5. Each Fiction or Nonfiction is a separate entry and should total no more than 6,000 words, except for the Short-Short Fiction Prize, which should total no more than 1,000 words. (Nonfiction includes essays, profiles, memoirs, interviews, creative nonfiction, travel, humor, etc.)
6. Each Poetry entry may include up to three poems, not to exceed five pages total.
7. Put name, address, phone, email, and category entered on the first page of each entry.
8. A $17 reading fee is required for each entry.

Enter Online:

• At http://www.newmillenniumwritings.com/awards.php
  
• Each entry must be in a separate file (up to 3 poems in a file for poetry). Many file formats are accepted. Payment will be by credit card or echeck through PayPal.

Enter Offline:

• Manuscripts are not returned. Send a business-size SASE (or an IRC if outside the U.S.) for a list of winners or await your book.
• Include $17 check payable to New Millennium Writings with each submission.
• Send to:
  NMW
  Room M2
  PO Box 2463
  Knoxville, TN 37901
  
  Entries should be postmarked on or before January 31, 2007.

Winners of NMW Awards are showcased along with interviews and profiles of famous writers such as Ken Kesey, John Updike, Lee Smith, Cormac McCarthy, Lucille Clifton, Shelby Foote, Paul West, Norman Mailer, Sharyn McCrumb, William Kennedy and tributes to writers for the ages, including Faulkner, Hemingway, Dickinson, Keats, Percy, Warren and others; also prize-winning stories, poems and articles, plus humor, graphic arts and writing advice. Color cover/ 208 pages. See our FAQ page for additional information.

Thanks for your interest and, to those of you who have already entered, thanks for your patience. Feel free to enter more than once.