Holly Sneeringer Awarded Fall 2013 Orlando Creative Nonfiction Prize
Holly’s winning essay, “Under Water,” will be published in Issue No. 15 of the Los Angeles Review.
Jenifer Browne Lawrence Awarded Fall 2013 Orlando Poetry Prize
JENIFER BROWNE LAWRENCE is the author of One Hundred Steps from Shore (Blue Begonia, 2006). Awards include the 2011 James Hearst Poetry Prize and a Washington State Artist Trust GAP grant. Recent work appears in Bellevue Literary Review, Caesura, Cider Press Review, Narrative, North American Review, Rattle, and So to Speak. She serves on the advisory board for the Centrum Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, and is co-editor at Crab...
Interrobang by Jessica Piazza
Interrobang, winner of the 2011 To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize Judge: Eloise Klein Healy Interrobang is a collection of mostly sonnets that play with various clinical “phobias” and “philias.” Jessica’s stunning, playful, dark, and haunting poems illustrate how “even the worst-case scenario of these pathologies are, fundamentally, just extensions of the dark truths to which every one of...
Lauren K. Alleyne
Lauren K. Alleyne is an assistant professor of English and the Poet-in-Residence at the University of Dubuque. Her essays and poems have been published in several journals and anthologies including: The Crab Orchard Review, Black Arts Quarterly, The Caribbean Writer, The Cimarron Review, Growing Up Girl, and Gathering Ground, among others. Her work has been awarded numerous prizes and awards, including an Atlantic Monthly Student...
Mona Alvarado Frazier
Mona AlvaradoFrazier believes that a story isn’t only about a happy ending it’s about the journey. Strong women, self-identity, life challenges, and resiliency make their way into her three novels in progress. After graduating from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Mona began a career with the California Department of Corrections as a Counselor working with offenders ages 13-25 years of age and ended it as a Captain,...
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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