Announcing 2015 AROHO Retreat Program Contributors, Fellows, and Artists in Residence
From the 2015 Retreat Committee Congratulations to all who applied to contribute as a Program Contributor, Artist in Residence, or Fellow at the 2015 AROHO Retreat. Your generosity and the excellence of your craft are what make the AROHO community so uniquely transformative. When the application window for proposals and fellowships for the 2015 AROHO Retreat closed on August 31, we were overcome with gratitude and pride. The proposals...
Julia Laxer Awarded Fall 2014 Orlando Creative Nonfiction Prize
As a reader, I felt immediately transported; I marveled at the weight of each phrase or sentence, the way the writing seemed to have layers of meaning. The voice is powerful, unpredictable, and vibrant. I hope the author expands upon this piece to create a larger narrative. —Deborah Feldman, Fall 2014 Orlando Creative Nonfiction Finalist Judge Congratulations to Julia Laxer on the selection of her essay, “Letter to My Sister in a...
Lisa Nikolidakis Awarded Fall 2014 Orlando Flash Fiction Prize
“The Spinning Field” brings the reader immediately and viscerally into the world of the alien among us – the outsider, the immigrant, the ostracized. For its pitch-perfect voice, succinct yet compelling details, and total honesty (even when it ain’t pretty), “The Spinning Field” has the mark of a writer to watch!” —Kristen Wolf, Fall 2014 Orlando Flash Fiction Finalist Judge Congratulations to...
Michelle Wright Awarded Fall 2014 Orlando Short Fiction Prize
It’s so hard to create a world and draw living characters and make the reader feel something, all in just a few short pages–“Moon Shiny Night” did all of this beautifully. Without even naming the characters I felt connected to these girls, felt their brief, wondrous connection to the old man next door–and I ached, knowing it would all be over, and the old man would be left alone. —Vanessa Diffenbaugh,...
Denise Leto Awarded Fall 2014 Orlando Poetry Prize
I love the play of the biological, anatomical, and marine references and the mixed references to geography and Christianity with the most subtle eroticism, “writing notes with her other hand: desire.” For the poem is desire, and is sometimes the fulfillment of desire. But also end, loss, death as the body gives itself back to where it was born–perhaps. –Cheryl Clarke, Fall 2014 Orlando Poetry Finalist Judge...
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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