Kettle Bottom by Diane Gilliam
Diane Gilliam, AROHO’s 6th Gift of Freedom Award Winner, has been widely recognized for the voice of honesty, beauty, and resilience that she has given to Appalachian culture and history–among the many other subjects of her writing. Her second book, Kettle Bottom, is a collection of poems written in the voices of people living in the coal camps at the time of the 1920-21 West Virginia Mine Wars. Kettle Bottom has won...
Helen Jones Awarded Spring 2013 Orlando Flash Fiction Prize
HELEN JONES has a BA in English from UC Davis, and has published poetry in Reed Magazine and Porter Gulch Review (under her maiden name of Smith). She has an essay forthcoming in EQUUS magazine and lives in Washington state with one Kiwi husband, two miniature donkeys, three cats, and five hens. She is currently working on a memoir. Helen’s winning flash fiction story, “The Boardwalk, 1969,” was first...
Abby Chew Awarded Spring 2013 Orlando Poetry Prize
ABBY CHEW recently moved away from southeastern Ohio, where she worked as a teacher and goatherd at Olney Friends School. Currently, she teaches English at The Webb Schools in Claremont, California, where she lives with her dog Alice. Her first book of poems, Discontinued Township Roads, is forthcoming in late 2013 from Word Press, an imprint of WordTech, Inc. Abby’s winning poem, “Storm,” was published in...
Katherine Van Dis Awarded Spring 2013 Orlando Short Fiction Prize
KATHERINE VAN DIS lives in Durham, North Carolina with her husband and three-year-old son. She is a high school creative writing teacher and has also worked with writers in community centers and prisons. Though Katherine has lived in North Carolina for more than ten years, her roots are in Michigan, where many of her stories take place. She attended the University of Michigan where she received a Hopwood Award for fiction. She is...
Bridgett Jensen Awarded Spring 2013 Orlando Creative Nonfiction Prize
BRIDGETT JENSEN lives in southern Illinois with her husband and their four children. She is a graduate of Spalding University’s MFA in Writing Program. She teaches poetry and creative writing to children and has published work in The Louisville Review. Bridgett’s winning essay, “Lift,” was published in Issue No. 14 of the Los Angeles Review.
Does the sea remember everything? I wonder.
Does she absorb everything? Does she keep it safe?
Virginia Woolf
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The Q: Can you fathom the spectacle that would be created if we moved together, arms outstretched, close enough to touch?
The Q: What echoes through you that longs to take form—a poem, an image, a mark, a whisper of becoming?
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