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...
Julie Marie Wade Awarded 2014 To the Lighthouse Prize
“SIX,” Julie Marie Wade’s breathtaking manuscript, is the winner of AROHO’s 2014 To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize. Finalist Judge C.D. Wright wrote: “I chose SIX not in spite of but because of its discursiveness, its willingness to wander through the poem with technique at hand, but also a permit to allow both substantive and ephemeral material to wander into the field of the poem and...
A. E. Stallings, 2015 To the Lighthouse Finalist Judge
AROHO is proud to announce 2015 To the Lighthouse Finalist Judge, poet and translator A. E. Stallings. A. E. (Alicia) Stallings studied classics in Athens, Georgia and has lived since 1999 in Athens, Greece. She has published three books of poetry, Archaic Smile (1999), which won the Richard Wilbur Award; Hapax (2000); and Olives (2012). Her new verse translation of Lucretius (in rhyming fourteeners!), The Nature of Things, is...
Joni B. Cole: Orlando Flash Fiction Judge
AROHO is pleased to announce author and writing instructor Joni B. Cole as the finalist Flash Fiction judge for the Spring 2015 Orlando Prizes. Joni B. Cole’s most recent book is a collection of essays, Another Bad-Dog Book: Tales of Life, Love, and Neurotic Human Behavior. (Every page of Another Bad-Dog Book offers riotously funny and outrageously honest observations without sacrificing either Cole’s fiercely intelligent insights or...
Camille Dungy: Orlando Poetry Judge
“Creative insight exists in more of an aquifer then a well. Creative insight is always below the surface. Maybe the issue is access, not availability. Find a new place and a new way to plant your well. Find new technology to get the water out. Find a form that tests your limits and write into that form.”—Camille Dungy AROHO is pleased to announce Camille Dungy as the finalist Poetry judge for the Spring...
Does the sea remember everything? I wonder.
Does she absorb everything? Does she keep it safe?
Virginia Woolf
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The Q: Can you fathom the spectacle that would be created if we moved together, arms outstretched, close enough to touch?
The Q: What echoes through you that longs to take form—a poem, an image, a mark, a whisper of becoming?
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