"Tilt" by
Renato Rosaldo—$200 prize and print and online
publication
Top
5 Finalist poems:
"Death
in Seven Movements" and "Face" by Marj Hahne
"In
the Name of Cleanliness" by Aimee Norton"
4325
Baltimore Ave." by Adam Fieled, and
"Encounter"
by Mark Thalman
Semi-finalists:
"Rest
Stop" and "Another Shirley Temple" by Diane Sahms
Guarnieri
"We
Regret to Inform You" by Trenton Hickman
"Casual"
by Tamara Oakman, and
"Snapshot"
by Nancy Tupper Ling.
THE
FLASH FICTION WINNERS | READ THE WINNER
Jeff
Fearnside "Nuclear Toughskins"— $200 prize
and print and online publication
(more
about the winner)
Flash
Fiction honorable mentions:
"Buyer
Be Wary," by Karen F. Groves
"Extraordinary
Whiteness," by Andrew McNabb
The
top Flash Fiction finalists:
Jenny
Lentz,"Natural"
John
E. Branseum, "Babies"
William
Donnelly, "This is Not a Ghost Story"
Deb
R. Lewis, "Waiting at One End of Time"
Jennifer
L Schultz "Murder"
Sandra
Maddux-Creech "Soul Cats on the EL"
Sarah
Blackman, "Weather" [withdrawn by author]
The winners in each category receive $200 and publication in the
first MMM Online issue as well as the new MMM in print.
Prizes:
$200 cash prize for the best poem & $200 cash prize for the
best flash fiction.
* Publication online in the first MMM web issue in 2006 and publication
in print in 2006.
* The top five finalists in each genre will also be published online.
*
ALL entrants will receive 2 free back issues in January as well
as a printed announcement of the winners.
Finall
Flash Fiction Judge: Thaddeus Rutkowski, author of Roughhouse (Kaya
Press) and Tetched (Behler Publications)
Final
Poetry Judge: Marcus Cafagña, author of The Broken World
(National Poetry Series winner) and Roman Fever (Invisible Cities
Press).
