New Millennium Writings
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New Millennium Writings is an American literary magazine published in Knoxville, Tennessee. It was founded in 1996 by Don Williams, a prize-winning journalist and fiction writer who currently serves as editor. The magazine carries fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction by up-and-coming writers. It features profiles, interviews, and essays on famous writers, such as Cormac McCarthy
, the late Ken Kesey
, John Updike
and others. It also includes writing tips and provocative commentary by founding editor Don Williams.
The journal hosts prestigious semi-annual contests in fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Among notable winners are Robert Clark Young
(Nonfiction, 1996), Laura S. Distelheim (Nonfiction, 2002), Morgan McDermott
(Fiction, 2002), Jacob M. Appel
(Fiction 2004, Fiction 2007, Fiction 2008), Mira Dusho (Fiction 2006), Vivian Shipley (Poetry, 2007), and American Book Award Winner Pamela Uschuk
(Poetry, 2010).
New Millennium Writings is a winner of a Golden Press Card Award for Excellence, according to www.NewMillenniumWritings.com.
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, and modernist genres. He received the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for The Road...
, the late Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey
Kenneth Elton "Ken" Kesey was an American author, best known for his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , and as a counter-cultural figure who considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. "I was too young to be a beatnik, and too old to be a...
, John Updike
John Updike
John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic....
and others. It also includes writing tips and provocative commentary by founding editor Don Williams.
The journal hosts prestigious semi-annual contests in fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Among notable winners are Robert Clark Young
Robert Clark Young
Robert Clark Young is an American author of novels, essays, short stories and journalism. Recurring themes in Young's fiction include the relation between alcoholism, the abuse of power, and institutional dysfunction in American life, while his nonfiction has recently focused on eldercare topics...
(Nonfiction, 1996), Laura S. Distelheim (Nonfiction, 2002), Morgan McDermott
Morgan McDermott
Morgan McDermott is an American author best known for his short stories. His short story collection, Owner's Manual, won the Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction but remains unpublished...
(Fiction, 2002), Jacob M. Appel
Jacob M. Appel
Jacob M. Appel is an American author, bioethicist and social critic. He is best known for his short stories, his work as a playwright, and his writing in the fields of reproductive ethics, organ donation, neuroethics and euthanasia....
(Fiction 2004, Fiction 2007, Fiction 2008), Mira Dusho (Fiction 2006), Vivian Shipley (Poetry, 2007), and American Book Award Winner Pamela Uschuk
Pamela Uschuk
Pamela Uschuk is an American poet, and Visiting Poet at University of Tennessee. She won a 2010 American Book Award, for Crazy Love: New Poems.She studied at Interlochen Arts Academy....
(Poetry, 2010).
New Millennium Writings is a winner of a Golden Press Card Award for Excellence, according to www.NewMillenniumWritings.com.