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]
