Katie Umans Awarded Spring 2014 Orlando Short Fiction Prize
I think every writer has to have (or find) an unconditional love for the solitary work of writing. However, the acknowledgment of publication pulls the writer briefly out of that seclusion, along with whatever insecurities or other distortions can grow there. Katie Umans Congratulations to Katie Umans on the selection of her story, “The Banshee and the Chef,” for the Spring 2014 Orlando Short Fiction Prize! Her story plunges us into...
Kate Angus Awarded Spring 2014 Orlando Creative Nonfiction Prize
I’m always so grateful when anything I write finds a home. It reminds me that I’m not just speaking to myself–that someone, even if I never meet them, is listening. That sense of being heard–that my work now has a life outside of just my brain and a folder on my desktop–lets me separate enough from the piece to start working on something new. Kate Angus Congratulations to Kate on the selection of her essay,...
$10,000 Shakespeare’s Sister Playwriting Fellowship
A Room of Her Own is pleased to announce the Shakespeare’s Sister Playwriting Fellowship, an unparalleled opportunity for a woman playwright living in the United States to hone her craft and develop a new play in the course of a year-long engagement with three world-class organizations. In addition to $10,000 the cash prize, the winner will be awarded a residency with the Hedgebrook community in the spring of 2015, a spot in AROHO’s...
Women Who Sit
Karina Puente AROHO’s 2013 Artist in Residence, Karina Puente, drew the portrait of 15 writers on one page. With the help of videographer, Rebecca Scheckman, the artist compiled video footage of the drawing process resulting in a stop-motion animation of women’s faces morphing in and out of each other. Over a three day period, fifteen writers sat for the artist at different times and experienced a similar theme: each woman is filled...
“What’s in your Tote?”
“To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable” -Virginia Woolf … and to carry oneself fashionably is to fund opportunities for creative women. Since 2000, AROHO has channeled more than 1,000,000 publicly gifted dollars into new awards, fellowships, and life-changing opportunities for women and has inspired thousands of books and works of art by women. All proceeds from the new AROHO...
Art is my taste for freedom. I drown day and day until I pick up my paintbrush once again. So, somehow, I can tell myself that you’re not stuck in this room and that the canvas is the key.
Nina Salvadoré
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