Sue William Silverman: Orlando CNF Judge
May01

Sue William Silverman: Orlando CNF Judge

AROHO is pleased to announce  Sue William Silverman as the finalist Creative Nonfiction judge for the Fall 2015 Orlando Prizes. SUE WILLIAM SILVERMAN’s new memoir is The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew. Her two previous memoirs are Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey through Sexual Addiction, which is also a Lifetime TV movie, and Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You, which won the Association of Writers...

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Megan Abbott: Orlando Short Fiction Judge
May01

Megan Abbott: Orlando Short Fiction Judge

AROHO is pleased to announce award-winning crime fiction author Megan Abbott as the finalist Short Story judge for the Fall 2015 Orlando Prizes. Megan Abbott is the award-winning author of six novels, including The Fever, Dare Me andThe End of Everything. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Salon and Los Angeles Times Magazine. She is also the author of The Street Was Mine, a study of hardboiled fiction and film noir,...

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Linda Cooper Awarded Spring 2015 Orlando Poetry Prize
Apr01

Linda Cooper Awarded Spring 2015 Orlando Poetry Prize

“The longing and painful resurgence of the central figure in this poem is drawn for us through action and image. Every word here is doing important work. … The poet uses her lines masterfully, changing and rearranging my perceptions and expectations, renewing tired language and recharging her poem as she moves it down the page.” —Camille Dungy, Spring 2015 Orlando Poetry Finalist Judge Congratulations to Linda...

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Judith Janeway Awarded Spring 2015 Orlando Flash Fiction Prize
Apr01

Judith Janeway Awarded Spring 2015 Orlando Flash Fiction Prize

“A narrator, a place, a past, and a future are crystallized brilliantly in this deceptively brief fiction about a street performer. Long after reading, I found myself shaking my head and asking—’Did that really just happen?’—forgetting that it was only a story.” —Joni B. Cole, Spring 2015 Orlando Flash Fiction Finalist Judge Congratulations to Judith Janeway on the selection of her flash fiction story, “The...

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Anna Scotti Awarded Spring 2015 Orlando Short Fiction Prize
Apr01

Anna Scotti Awarded Spring 2015 Orlando Short Fiction Prize

“A great story pulls the twin threads of plot and theme taut from first word to last, and ‘They Look Like Angels’ makes this tautness seem effortless. The spare, simple, straightforward language both impressed and affected me with its restraint. The anguish of the grieving narrator, packed so carefully inside her actions, is almost never seen but emerges in devastating stages as the experience behind those actions is...

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