Megan Alpert Awarded Spring 2012 Orlando Poetry Prize
Megan’s winning poem, “crafting,” was published in Issue No. 12 of the Los Angeles Review.
Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock Awarded Spring 2012 Orlando Flash Fiction Award
Bonnie-Sue’s winning flash fiction story, “The Smell of Other People’s Houses,” was published in Issue No. 12 of the Los Angeles Review.
Dancing on One Foot by Shanti Elke Bannwart
Dancing on One Foot by Shanti Elke Bannwart is a memoir about a woman’s lifelong journey to understand and absorb what she experienced in war, and what she came to understand about her country’s participation in a great crime. There is great magic in AROHO’s Retreats at Ghost Ranch: the setting enhances the power of the encounters with fellow writers. We were there during the nights of the falling stars and I...
“A Strange Woman,” by Laura Brown-Lavoie
In her home there are no kinfolk, only unexpected visitors whom she always sees coming long before the usual portents, a certain species of moth splayed out in the wax of a candle, or the wax itself pointing a knobby finger towards the door. There are no kinfolk, which is to say everyone who stays with her quickly forgets that he was born in a place where women could pronounce his name, and leaves in the morning with her kitchen...
“A Woman’s Glory,” by Ashley Kunsa
She’s at the island with a knife. Body bent over the cutting board, like a diver taking leave of the land. In one hand, the golden bale of her hair; in the other, her santoku. “Oh,” I say. “No.” A rush of warmth washes over me as I think of the softness of those strands in my fingers, on my breasts, my lips. “It has to go,” she says, face flush with the wooden plank. “Let’s talk about it.” I edge a painted toenail onto the kitchen’s...
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