, Woodbury鈥檚 national online literary magazine — a precocious two-year-old 鈥� has won its first award and it鈥檚 a good one: Best Microfiction for 2020, bestowed by .
The winning entry, “” by Hema Nataraju, was published in Issue Four of MORIA. Nataraju, an Indian-American writer, lives in Singapore with her husband and their two children. Her work has appeared in聽The Sunlight Press,听Chicken Soup for the Soul,听The Aerogram,听The Brown Orient, the聽National Flash-Fiction Day聽anthology, and in several print anthologies.
鈥淭his is a very big honor, which raises MORIA‘s聽status among literary publications, along with the College of Liberal Arts and, by extension, Woodbury,鈥� said Emily Bills, Communications Coordinator for COLA.聽 鈥淐ongratulations to the student staff of聽MORIA聽for Issue Four and to their advisor, Dr. Linda L. Dove.鈥�
Dr. Dove added this: 鈥淎lthough we’ve been nominating for all the awards for聽two years, this is the first time that聽惭翱搁滨础听has won a national award, and it catapults聽MORIA聽into a whole new category of magazine.鈥�
鈥淭his was a deeply competitive competition,鈥� the editorial team at bestmicrofiction.com noted.聽 鈥淭he Best Microfiction anthology will be available in mid-April, and we’re planning a big virtual launch of the anthology on , so please 鈥榣ike鈥� our page if you haven’t yet!鈥�
MORIA聽is a national literary magazine with an all-student editorial board, based at 麻豆传媒集团, that accepts poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction from emerging and established writers in the United States and across the world. The undergraduates who serve as editors and managers of the magazine participate in an official course on campus, during which they learn the fundamentals of producing an online literary journal with a professional focus.