Announcing the 7th Gift of Freedom
“The Gift of Freedom is one of the heftiest grants available to writers anywhere and is the largest open solely to women in the United States.”—Poets & Writers The 7th Gift of Freedom application is now open Deadline: November 2, 2015
Where Robindale Meets Woolf
I was writing my application for the Gift of Freedom about this time of year in 2012, just as I expect hundreds of women writers will be doing in coming weeks. I was going on faith, I was remembering an entry from Woolf’s A Writer’s Diary in which she’s considering Byron—how as a young man he never believed in his poetry and so became “Byronic.” On the other hand, she says, “The Wordsworths and the Keatses believe in that as...
November Butterfly by Tania Pryputniewicz
Alternately image rich and direct, the narrative lyric poems in November Butterfly (Saddle Road Press) channel the voices of iconic women, from Nefertiti to Guinevere to Marilyn Monroe and Sylvia Plath. The collection explores women’s choices and their consequences, as well as the violences that are not chosen. It delineates the collective responsibility, male and female alike, for posing challenges to the creative feminine. Section...
Interview with Jessica Piazza
“Winning the To the Lighthouse Book Prize didn’t impact my career. It launched it. It allowed it.” AROHO asked 2011 To the Lighthouse Winner Jessica Piazza about what winning the To the Lighthouse Book Prize has meant to her and about what it took to get there. AROHO: Has winning the To the Lighthouse Book Prize impacted either you personally or your writing career overall? If so, in what ways? JP: Winning the To the...
Shakespeare’s Sister Fellow, Dipika Guha
Dipika Guha of New York, NY, is the recipient of A Room of Her Own Foundation’s first Shakespeare’s Sister Fellowship, a partnership joining A Room of Her Own Foundation (AROHO), Hedgebrook, and The Lark together with award-winning actress, playwright, and author Ellen McLaughlin. This gestational, communal, and developmental fellowship is the trifecta of playwriting opportunities for a female playwright, offering a $10,000 prize and...
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