1st Place, Fiction, NMW 21
B. Barnett
Beneath,
24
‘Koro prayed the trek down and down through the muraled corridors inside the pyramid would be good. He turned his attention to the messenger. In Cetot’s eye, Koro saw the Jaguar….’
1st Place, Nonfiction, NMW 21
Craig Rothstein
My Candied Passing,
35
‘The camera is the eye of a surgical leech, forgotten and decaying inside an old mason jar. The lense comes slowly into focus. The setting is the mad scientist’s laboratory. The Doctor works in the corner, back turned….’
1st Place, Poetry, NMW 20
Robert S. Carr
Rough Beast,
60
‘The Navajo told of werewolves around the fires; we did not think they’d come. We were sleeping when the ravagers stalked the pen two falls ago and slew the lambs One hunter promised us the pelts….’
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1st Place, Fiction, NMW 20
Robert Anderson,
Compton’s Run,
8
‘The horseman came over the hill spurring a bay gelding in an unsteady walk, past smoke-gray bundles of cactus and shrubby pines. He rode with slack hands and dull eyes, watching the ground as th ehorse picked its way through shelves of rock. From time to time he looked east for signs of pursuit….’
1st Place, Nonfiction, NMW 20
Jessie Keyt,
A Matter of Conversation,
43
1st Place, Poetry, NMW 21
Jillian Weise,
Dating, Like Surgery,
62
‘He’d have to climb four flights either way, usually the back fire escape, and so arrived with an out-of-breath sputter, leaned over the rail outside. I could hear him compose himself….’
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