More of This World or Maybe Another by Barb Johnson
“More of This World or Maybe Another is a collection of award-winning short fiction about four outsiders whose unruly lives intersect on the back streets of New Orleans from writer Barb Johnson. Funny and haunting by turns, Johnson’s unforgettable characters are driven by something fragile and irresistible, a sputtering drive to love and be loved, in these “stunning stories . . . the kind that reveal, enlarge, and make living...
Fall 2015 Orlando Prize Winners & Finalists
Fall 2015 Orlando Prize Winners & Finalists It was a privilege to read the work of one-thousand twenty-four talented women. We hope you will join us in celebrating the success of the selected winners and finalists, chosen anonymously by our extraordinary panel of finalist judges! POETRY WINNER: “FLIGHT THEORY” by Allison Adair [Brookline, MA] “The poem pulled me into the poet’s experience from the first two...
Ingrid Jendrzejewski Awarded Fall 2015 Orlando Flash Fiction Prize
Ingrid Jendrzejewski Awarded Fall 2015 Orlando Flash Fiction Prize Congratulations to Ingrid Jendrzejewski on the selection of her essay, “The Immaculate Heart of Mary/Steel City 1910,” for the Fall 2015 Orlando Flash Fiction Prize! “The Immaculate Heart of Mary/Steel City 1910” will be published in Issue 19 of The Los Angeles Review. The author of “The Immaculate Heart of Mary/Steel City 1910″ honors the form...
Beth Ann Fennelly Awarded Fall 2015 Orlando Creative Nonfiction Prize
Beth Ann Fennelly Awarded Fall 2015 Orlando Creative Nonfiction Prize Congratulations to Beth Ann Fennelly on the selection of her essay, “Goner” for the Fall 2015 Orlando Nonfiction Prize! “Goner” will be published in Issue No. 19 of The Los Angeles Review. “The arc [of ‘Goner’] is clear and well developed. The author uses ecclesiastical language to great effect, as it immediately establishes that this...
Leigh Claire Schmidli Awarded Fall 2015 Orlando Short Fiction Prize
Leigh Claire Schmidli Awarded Fall 2015 Orlando Short Fiction Prize Congratulations to Leigh Claire Schmidli on the selection of her short story “Grow Heavy” for the Fall 2015 Orlando Short Fiction Prize! “Grow Heavy” will be published in Issue 19 of The Los Angeles Review. “Subtle, tender, poignant, this story delivers an emotional wallop in just a few pages. A gorgeous evocation of loneliness, of the delicate...
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