Barbara Ann Yoder
Barbara Ann Yoder has worked as a writer and editor for more than thirty years. Her first book was The Recovery Resource Book. She is currently developing a novel and revising her book for women who write—a guide to overcoming self-censorship that taps the power of myths, tales, memoirs, and dreams. Barbara coaches writers on writing process and projects, blogs about writing and the writing life, and does developmental editing of...
Regarding Mono Lake by Elizabeth Kenneday
Regarding Mono Lake is a cultural and art history of the Mono Basin, including 56 panoramic images by the author, with details of human history, twentieth century art, and moviemaking lore. Buy this Book In 2011, I was an attendee at the AROHO Retreat at Ghost Ranch. I had an almost-finished book project and thought I was about to publish with a very appropriate Press for my combination art-and-narrative project. As an exhibiting...
Fall 2014 Orlando Winners & Finalists
Congratulations to our Winners & Finalists, and thank you to all who submitted! It was a privilege to read the audacious, compelling, and beautiful work of so many talented women. We hope you will join us in celebrating the success of the selected winners and finalists, chosen by an extraordinary panel of finalist judges! Each winner will receive $1,000 and publication of her winning piece in Issue No. 17 of The Los Angeles...
Working in Silence
Silence is your treasure. Do not exchange it for an easy life. This is my revision of a sentence by Zen-Getsu, which I came across as an epigraph and am keeping as my watchwords for these next few months up in my room. The original subject is poverty. What I understand to be at the heart of the counsel is the worth of the difficult thing. Difficult gifts–poverty or silence, possibilities for greatness, whatever your own...
Already Making Waves
Thank you to all who submitted Proposal Applications for the 2015 AROHO Retreat! The quality and quantity of responses we’ve received is a testament to the strength of our community, an acknowledgment that together we are creating something vital whose impact will be felt well beyond the time and space of the Retreat week. It is our hope that, through publication, we can engage even more women in the Waves Discussion Series...