{"id":27,"date":"2024-02-05T05:23:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T05:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.dawnmillerwriter.com:443\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2026-07-02T16:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:23:10","slug":"recognitions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dawnmillerwriter.com\/?page_id=27","title":{"rendered":"Recognitions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Mother Said I Was Air” 2026 Wigleaf Top 50<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“An Alternate History of Inmate 2090-54C, Age 20” 2026 Wigleaf Top 50 longlist<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Upstream” finalist, The Writers’ Union of Canada’s Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Mother Said I Was Air,” Pushcart Prize nomination, The Sunlight Press, December 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Blues”, NUNUM, nominated Best Microfiction 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Mother Said I Was Air”, Second Prize, The Sunlight Press 2025 Flash Fiction Contest<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Shark Boy” honourable mention, West Trade Review Flash Fiction Competition, September 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Skin Grafting” shortlisted, The Bridport Prize, August 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Mother of Pearl” originally published in The Forge Literary Magazine, selected Wigleaf’s Top 50 LL 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“All the Ways We Save Each Other,” finalist, The Writers’ Union of Canada 2025 Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Mother Said I Was Air”, shortlisted, SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Our Last Summer”, 3rd place, 2025 National Flash Fiction Day Micro Fiction Competition <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Pack” 2nd Prize, Bath Flash Fiction Award February 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Mother of Pearl” (originally published in The Forge Literary Magazine), nominated Best Small Fiction 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Wives” (originally published in Milk Candy Review), winner Best Microfiction 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Birth Control is for Sluts” shortlisted, SmokeLong Quarterly Grand Micro Contest 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“No One Can Figure Out How Eels Have Sex” shortlisted, Bath Flash Fiction Contest <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Mother of Pearl” The Forge Literary Magazine <\/a> Winner, 2024 Forge Flash Fiction Competition<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Dead Whales are Washing Up on Beaches Everywhere” nominated for Best Microfiction 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Probability Statistics” originally published in The Cincinnati Review, selected Wigleaf’s Top 50 LL 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Good Mother” 1st place winner, Toronto Star <\/em>Short Story Contest 2024 <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SmokeLong Quarterly Fellowship for Emerging Writers 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Small Fictions 2024 nomination
The Forge Literary Magazine
“Edna St. Vincent Millay Covers the Mirrors”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Small Fictions 2024 nomination
“Tangled”
Whale Road Review<\/p>\n\n\n

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Secrets, acrylic on canvas, Dawn Miller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

2024 Pushcart Prize nomination
“Two Weeks After the Mastectomy”
The Vestal Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Small Fictions 2024 nomination
“Counting Stones”
published in Fictive Dream<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winner, Best Microfiction 2024
“Culloden”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Last Day of 1929” runner up, January Flash Fiction Festival Competition<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“How To Wash Your Little Sister’s Wig”
Finalist, WOW! Women on Writing Flash
Competition, summer 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Skin Grafting”
shortlisted, The Bridport Prize 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Friday Afternoon at the Mammography Unit”
shortlisted, The Bath Flash Fiction Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Girl Made of Dirt”
winner, Fractured Lit OPEN Anthology
2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“How (Not) to Store Your Sister’s Wig
SmokeLong Quarterly Summer
Fiction competition 2021 shortlist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Farmers’ Almanac”
1st place Winner, fiction category
Wind and Water Writing Contest
Prince Edward County Arts Council<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Girl Made of Dirt”
shortlisted, The Welkin Writing Prize
2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Weight of Silence
shortlisted, Retreat West’s First Chapter Competition
2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Chipmunk”
3rd Place Winner
Room Magazine Short Forms Contest
2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

nominated Ellipsis Zine’s Best Of 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Edna St. Vincent Millay Covers the Mirrors”
longlisted The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Egg”
3rd place
Cleaver Magazine Flash Fiction
competition October 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Orca”
Winner, SmokeLong Quarterly Summer Flash Fiction Competition
(Fiction category) 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Luna”
Fractured Lit Anthology II Prize winner<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Waiting for the Sing”
Finalist, Wind and Water Writing Competition, Prince Edward County, Summer 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022 Pushcart Prize nomination for “Jack Pine”
The Maine Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every Fragile Thing (excerpt)
Finalist, Novel Slices Competition,
Summer 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortlisted, Raven Short Story Competition
Pulp Literature<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Waiting For the Sing” Shortlisted, Spirit of the Hills Short Story Competition 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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