Caitlin Scarano Awarded Spring 2014 Orlando Flash Fiction Prize
Having any of my work, whether it be a poem, an essay, or a short story, accepted for publication is special and motivating for me – it always inspires me to create more and to share my work. I think it is great to know that someone else finds my work worthwhile and worth promoting. Caitlin Scarano Congratulations to Caitlin Scarano on the selection of her story, “Of Possible War,” for the Spring 2014 Orlando Flash...
Laura Lauth Awarded Spring 2014 Orlando Poetry Prize
Publication is hope—and humbling. When I write poetry, I’m making something like a song. They were always meant to be sung. Until then, it’s sheet music.—Laura Lauth Congratulations to Laura Lauth on the selection of her poem, “Mass Grave, Ukraine,” for the Spring 2014 Orlando Poetry Prize! Her poem is a haunting glimpse at the aftermath of genocide and the way memory and new life somehow coexist, hand-in-hand....
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...
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