Jessica Piazza Awarded 2011 To the Lighthouse Prize
Jessica Piazza’s poetry collection “Interrobang” has been selected by judge Eloise Klein Healy as the 2011 To the Lighthouse Poetry Prize winner. Jessica Piazza was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She earned her B.S. in Journalism from Boston University, where she began work as the Favorite Poem Project, serving as an undergraduate intern for United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Jessica cofounded...
in the icehouse by Genevieve Kaplan
in the ice house by Genevieve Kaplan, To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize Winner, 2009 Judge: Kate Gale, Ph.D. Genevieve Kaplan’s In the ice house offers an innovative meditation on domestic life and the physical world that surrounds it, chronicling “at least the beginnings of some disaster” taking place in a landscape that “had no symmetry.” Deftly channeling poets like Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery, as well as...
Branden Boyer-White Awarded Fall 2011 Orlando Fiction Prize
BRANDEN BOYER-WHITE’s fiction has appeared in Third Coast Magazine and the Los Angeles Review, received Honorable Mention in the 2011 AWP Intro Journals Project, and was shortlisted for the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. An ardent devotee of Virginia Woolf and gender-bending, she could not have been more thrilled to win the Orlando Prize and thanks, with a huge heart, A Room of Her Own. Branden lives in...
Amy Silverberg Awarded Fall 2011 Orlando Flash Fiction Prize
AMY SILVERBERG is a writer living in Los Angeles. She received a masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. Her work has appeared both online and in print in Lumina, The Tin House Open Bar, Storyglossia, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a literary/humor podcast and a collection of short stories. In addition to fiction, she likes animals doing people things. You can find more about her on...
Doris Ferlerger Awarded Fall 2011 Orlando Creative Nonfiction Prize
DORIS FERLERGER is the author of three volumes of poetry, Big Silences in a Year of Rain, When You Become Snow, and As the Moon Has Breath. Winner of the New Letters Poetry Prize, among others, her work has been published in numerous journals including Cimarron Review, the L.A. Review, and the South Carolina Review. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a Ph.D. in psychology from Temple University. Her winning essay,...
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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