Interview with Leia Penina Wilson
“Sometimes you have to be a snob. Nobody else is going to do that work for you. You have to be generous to yourself. You have to unshy yourself.” AROHO asked 2014 To the Lighthouse Winner Leia Penina Wilson about what winning the To the Lighthouse Book Prize has meant to her and about what it took to get there. AROHO: If we’re remembering correctly, the first time you held the final published product of i built a...
Accepting General Applications for the 2015 Retreat
Now Open between October 31st, 2014, and January 15, 2015 CLICK TO SUBMIT ONLINE Join our growing assembly of women writers! Not simply a retreat, and much more than a writer’s conference, AROHO’s Retreat & Waves Discussion Series at Ghost Ranch (Abiquiu, NM) is a week-long interdisciplinary experience shaped by our transformative and generous history. In the words of participants, it is “a tapestry of women who, together, create...
My Story
Anita Clearfield Anita’s creative project at the 2013 Retreat involved working individually with four different writers at the ranch. She said of the opportunity: All of these partnerships influenced the process and the products, making for more layered and nuanced work, culminating in videos that were different than anything any one of us could do alone. I’m grateful that AROHO gave us the original opportunity to find each...
A Lighthouse (Reading) on the Beach
[ezcol_2third][/ezcol_2third] On Tuesday, October 14th, 2014, AROHO and our fabulous partners at Red Hen Press came together with a full crowd of friends and arts enthusiasts for a reading at the Annenberg Community Beach House featuring To the Lighthouse winners, Genevieve Kaplan, Jessica Piazza, and Leia Penina Wilson. The room was packed, the energy high, and the poetry at once riveting and uplifting, playful and powerful....
Anna Maria Hong Awarded 2014 Clarissa Dalloway Prize
“H & G,” a fantastical and fantastic re-imagining of the story of Hansel and Gretel by Anna Maria Hong, is the winner of AROHO’s inaugural Clarissa Dalloway “everything but poetry” Book Prize. Finalist Judge Kate Gale wrote: “H & G represents the AROHO story. Big myth collides with all of our personal narratives: the witch, the oven, the fire. As women, we write our way out of that story...
Art is my taste for freedom. I drown day and day until I pick up my paintbrush once again. So, somehow, I can tell myself that you’re not stuck in this room and that the canvas is the key.
Nina Salvadoré
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