MLM Awards

*** Look for our 2011 poetry chapbook contest to begin in July 2011. There will be no entry fee. Winner will receive free copies and publication.

MLM Best Poet Award (Poetry 2009) – Glenn Lyvers

MLM Distinction Award (Poetry) Joan Colby “Bats” (April 2010)
MLM Distinction Award (Fiction) Alejandro Omidsalar “The Movers” (April 2010)
MLM Distinction Award (Poetry) Trina Gaynon “Eclipse” (May 2010)
MLM Distinction Award (Fiction) Brandon Blackburn “Fragments from the Day before the Night that Jennifer Tried to Kill Herself” (May 2010)
MLM Distinction Award (Poetry) Tom Deiker “Tablet in the Sand” (June 2010)
MLM Distinction Award (Fiction) Colton Huelle “The Wine Stopper” (June 2010)
MLM Distinction Award (Poetry) Aaron Dick “The World is Gone in Each Night’s Chill” (September 2010)
MLM Distinction Award (Fiction) Lauren Hurston “To the Tintinnabulation” (September 2010)
MLM Distinction Award (Poetry) David Kowalczyk “Beside the Beautiful” (October 2010)
MLM Distinction Award (Fiction) Sander Blome “Crossing the Border” (October 2010)
MLM Distinction Award (Poetry) Heather Reading “Code Words” (November 2010)
MLM Distinction Award (Fiction) Sally York “Under the Dome” (November 2010)
MLM Distinction Award (Poetry) Stephen Harris “Carnival of Mercy” (December 2010)
MLM Distinction Award (Fiction) Kevin Coyle “Wasps in a Jar” (December 2010)
MLM Distinction Award (Poetry) John Gibbs “Remnants” (January 2011)
MLM Distinction Award (Fiction) James Dye “A Child in the Wild” (January 2011)
MLM Distinction Award (Poetry) Edwin Arce “Alone at Dusk on the Cote d’Azur” (February 2011)
MLM Distinction Award (Fiction) G. K. Adams “The Trout” (Februrary 2011)
MLM Distinction Award (Poetry) T.L. Sherwood “I’ll Tell You This” (March 2011)
MLM Distinction Award (Fiction) Rick Nordgen “Underwater Band” (March 2011)
MLM Distinction Award (Poetry) Dixon Hearne “Seasons” (April 2011)
MLM Distinction Award (Fiction) Joe Ponepinto “The Face Maker” (April 2011)
MLM Distinction Award (Poetry) Doug Thornton “The Eternal Meadow” (May 2011)
MLM Distinction Award (Fiction) Talia Carner “An African Tale” (May2011)
MLM Distinction Award (Fiction) Kimberly Cockroft “Birds in Snow” (May 2011)
MLM Distinction Award (Poetry) Douglas Polk “Halloween” (June 2011)
MLM Distinction Award (Fiction) Scott Lucas “Commencement Day” (June 2011)
MLM Distinction Award (Poetry) Jen Frankel “Start Before You Know” (July 2011)
MLM Distinction Award (Fiction) Diana Ferraro “The Lady Lived at Libby and Grove” (July 2011)

 
* Distinction Awards are chosen by the editor.
* Best (Fiction/Poet) annual awards are uncommon and are awarded only in years when an author is nominated by an editor, and the entire staff agrees. (Rare)

Coming soon:
MLM Best Writer Award (Chapbooks 2011)
MLM Master of Fiction Award (Early 2012)