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Issue 19, 2009-10 Anthology. "The 'Obama' issue", New! The NMW Study Guide to NMW for Writers and Teachers. Also, the Ghost of Obama's Grandmother, Updike at Rest, Southern Discomfort, Upstate Bedtime Stories, The Boy With A Camera, Grass Shrimp, Cops' Wives and Lovers, On Leaving North Dakota, String Theory, Sun Songs, Fake Cakes and Orgasms, Swimming Under Salvador, Our Best Poems Ever (including one by Obama) Plus Humor, Prize Winning Writers, Much More. Cover art by David Joyner. $12
Issue 18, 2008-09 Anthology. "The 'Kurt Vonnegut' issue", featuring Mother Night and Kurt Vonnegut on the banks of the big Tennessee, winter oranges, losing Africa, peeling onions, a haunting down under, Vietnam pays a visit, a principled self-immolation, the most interesting thing in the world, snake dreaming, wildfire hellfire, Alaska, cat consciousness, a taste of war, and doves sleeping in sand. Dozens of prize-winning poems, stories and articles, writing advice, humor, much more. Cover art by Mark Sieger. Sold Out
Issue 17, 2007-08 Anthology. "The 'J. D. Salinger' issue", featuring J. D. Salinger's lost love letters, a Janus File tribute by Neil Cohen and illustrated fiction, poetry and nonfiction by prize-winning poets and writers of many persuasions and backgrounds. Cover art by Walt Fieldsa. Sold Out
Issue 16, 2006-07 Anthology. "The 'Khaled Hosseini' issue", featuring an interview with Khaled Hosseini ("The Kite-Runner") a tribute to Shel Silverstein and lots of good illustrated fiction, poetry and nonfiction by prize-winning poets and writers of many persuasions and backgrounds. Cover art by Ouida Williams. $12
Issue 15, 2005-06 Anthology. "The 'Domestic Issues' issue", featuring an interview with Julia Glass by Sherry Ellis. Cover art by Cynthia Markert. Terrific fiction, including Enoch Arden's One-night Stands, an excerpt from Allen Wier's new novel, Tehano. A memoir of River Phoenix. Winning works from two consecutive contests in three categories. Poetry by poet laureate Ted Kooser, Art Smith, Marilyn Kallet, Laura Still, Susan Donnelly, Rebecca Rose Williams, the Marions, much more. $12
Special Issue, Heroes, Sheroes, and Zeroes, a New Millennium Writings special issue, by Don Williams. A carousel of personalities, including profiles, interviews, history, humor, lamentations and more about extraordinary writers, mystics, musicians, relatives, radicals, tree huggers, survivors, killers, politicians, pets, everyday villans, heroes and celebrities. Sold Out
Issue 14, Double Issue, 2004-5. "The 'War and Dismembrance' issue" featuring an up to date profile of Cormac McCarthy by NMW Editor Don Williams. Also cover art by Will Rickenbach. "God Bless the USA" deconstructed by Jack Neely. The Issue also contains winning works from two consecutive contests in three categories. Plus poems by Charles Wright, Sybil Kollar, Judy Loest and other outstanding poems, humor, writing advice. $12
Issue 13, Double Issue, 2003-4. "The 'George Garrett' issue" features a tribute to legendary writer and teacher George Garrett by prizewinning author Brian Griffin, an interview with George Garrett by Laura Hoffer. The issue also contains stories and poems by writers such as R.B. Morris, R.A. Lopata, Juliet Wittman, Tom Larsen, Claire Braz-Valentine's scathing "Open Letter to John Ashcroft," winning works from two consecutive contests in three categories. Plus outstanding stories, poems, humor, writing advice. Much more. $12
Issue 12, Double Issue, 2002. "The 'Ken Kesey' issue" features a personal memoir about the late Ken Kesey by NMW Editor Don Williams. Also cover art by Kesey (author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sometimes A Great Notion and subject of Tom Wolfe's classic, The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test). Issue also contains winning works from two consecutive contests in three categories. Plus outstanding stories, poems, humor, writing advice. Sold Out
Issue 11, Summer 2001. "The 'Best of the Best' issue" features excerpts from the best interviews and profiles of our first five years, including John Updike, Cormac McCarthy, Sharyn McCrumb, William Kennedy, Lee Smith, Norman Mailer, Lucille Clifton, Paul West, Lowell Cunningham, Samual R. Delaney, and Shelby Foote. Also, cover art by Carol Bowles, a tribute to James Agee by Don Williams, outstanding stories, poems, writing advice and more. Sold Out
Issue 10, Winter 2000-01 "The 'Queens Game' issue" with cover art by Marybeth Boyanton, memories of Ernest Hemingway by people who knew him, represents a change in look and direction (the new millennium is here.) Stories by Diana Amsterdam, Robert Skidmore, Bruce Bauman, and Gina Ochsner. The issue includes a large poetry section, art, writing advice, humor by Don Williams and more. Sold Out
Issue 9, Summer 2000 "The 'Touched by Magic' issue" with its cover depicting playing cards from a magician's hat, includes several works related to magic, such as Katy Grabel's prize-winning story, "Woman by Chemistry." Also a special section, "Endings & Beninnings, a Y2K Reader," and a story by Mary McCarthy award winner Brian Griffin, a tribute to Paul Bowles, a memoir of Samuel Delany, poetry, art, writing advice, photography, humor. Sold Out
Issue 8, Winter 99-2000 "The 'Gaia Greets Number 6 Billion' issue" with its picture of an unborn child bursting from the earth, by artist Mark Maxwell, includes a tribute to poet Howard Nemerov, a memoir of Cormac McCarthy and Leslie Garrett, by Don Williams; distinctive stories, poetry, art, writing advice, photography, humor. Sold Out
Issue 7, Summer 99 "The 'End of the World As We Know It' issue" with its festive cover by artist Mark Maxwell, included a tribute to William Faulkner, by Phyllis D. Kasler, an interview with Paul West, our most provocative fiction, outstanding poetry, more. $10
Issue 6, Winter 98-99 "The 'Big Bang' issue" with its cover depicting the origin of the universe, featured interviews with novelist Lee Smith, poet Lucille Clifton, prize-winning poetry by David Ray, Marilyn Kallet, Thomas Rain Crowe, provocative fiction. Also, contest winners, a tribute to Edgar Allan Poe, humor by Charlie Daniel, essay by Jack Neely. $10
Issue 5, Summer 98 "The 'Saint Norman' issue" contains Washington Post writer Bill Broadway's wide-ranging interview with Norman Mailer, fiction by Allen Wier, John Baird, Anthony Wallace, Julie Anne McNary. Prize-winning poetry. Our contest winners. A tribute to John Keats. Art, advice, photography, humor. $10
Issue 4, Winter 97-98 "The 'Midnight Blue' issue" is famous for its striking deep blue dream-scape cover by Mark Maxwell, contains an interview with Lowell Cunningham, the creative mind behind the Men in Black phenomenon, also, a memoir of Peter Taylor, the late Pulitzer-winning author. Much more by Brian Griffin, Jon Manchip White, Jack Neely, Linda Parsons, Charlie Daniel, Jeff Daniel Marion, Pete Fromm, more. $25
Issue 3, Summer 97 "The 'Butterfly' issue" contains a profile of prize-winning Appalachian mystery writer, Sharyn McCrumb, fiction by Joan Connor, Jeanne McDonald, John Baird, Anthony Wallace, and Robert Clark Young. A tribute to Walker Percy. Poems by David Ray, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award, Art Smith, Linda Parsons, Marilyn Kallet and X. J. Kennedy. More by Don Williams, David Hunter, Jack Neely. $15
Issue 2, Winter 96-97 "The 'Cormac McCarthy' issue" contained rare profile of National Book Award winner Cormac McCarthy, an interview with Pulitzer winner William Kennedy. Stories and essays by Richard Elman, David Madden, Fred Brown, Joan Connon and Allen Wier. A Tribute to Robert Penn Warren. Much more. $35
Issue 1, Summer 96 "The 'In the Beginning' issue", a collector's item, contained our landmark mission statement, a full-color cover depicting the creation, interview with John Updike. Also, stories and essays by prize-winning authors Madison Smartt Bell, Nicholas Delbanco, Joan Connor, David Hunter, Susan Vreeland, Jon Manchip White, poetry by Marilyn Kallet & Lisa Coffman. Tribute to Emily Dickinson. Winners of our First contest. $50

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