New Millennium Writings

New Millennium Writings is an American literary magazine published in Knoxville, Tennessee.^[1] It is the second oldest literary magazine in Tennessee and has the largest circulation of any literary magazine in that state.^[2]

History and profile

The magazine was established in 1996^[3] by Don Williams, who is editor-in-chief. The magazine is published annually.^[3] It carries fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction by up-and-coming writers.

The magazine is the recipient of a Golden Press Card Award for Excellence.^[3] It carries profiles, interviews and essays on famous writers, such as Cormac McCarthy, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Ken Kesey, Sarah Cornwell and Shozan Jack Haubner.^[4] The Writer named New Millennium Writings the "breakthrough journal of the year" in 2008.^[5] Work that has appeared in the magazine has been republished in the O. Henry Prize Anthology, Best New Stories from the South and the Pushcart Prize collection.^[6]

The magazine hosts semi-annual contests in fiction, very short fiction, creative essays and poetry. Among past winners are Robert Clark Young,^[7] Laura S. Distelheim,^[8] Morgan McDermott,^[9] and Vivian Shipley.^[10]