Dear Creative Woman,
In an intimate interview, AROHO’s own Cassandra Lane met with Sandy Coomer to talk about the Rockvale Writers’ Colony, her upcoming gift to one woman for a week-long writer’s residency there inspired by the power of creativity, and her effervescent response to our featured question :
Do you have a room of your own?
What inspired your creation of this gift and could you describe the details?
Be inspired by Sandy’s words on the power of creativity: Listen here. Would you like to find out more about Sandy and her work? Watch another clip here and read her work “Available Light” here.
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“Suddenly the Sun” by Donna Spector
In these times
of turmoil, I am grateful
for any moments when
there is no new news, no tv,
no radio, just two cats
purring in the kitchen,
and my study quiet
and full of dreams.
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“Room Enough to Be Me” by Elizabeth Best
In Dutch, it is my ruim: the hold of the ship of my life …
When I have read enough or thought enough or written enough and I am too tired to do anything else, this room becomes my cabin, my chamber, my cove.
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Want to read Donna Spector’s and Elizabeth Best’s gorgeous submissions in full? Also find alongside complementary art by Korean feminist artist, Yun Suk-nam here.
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Find more on the Rockvale “Power of Creativity” Gift of Fellowship here.