Ashley Kunsa Awarded Spring 2011 Orlando Flash Fiction Prize
ASHLEY KUNSA is a native of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, area, where she lives with her husband Brad, who is also a fiction writer, and their two cats. Her critical essays on Cormac McCarthy and Junot Díaz have been published in or are forthcoming from the Journal of Modern Literature and Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. In 2009 Ashley was a finalist in Narrative’s 30 Below contest. She completed her MFA at Penn State...
Jen Silverman Awarded Spring 2011 Orlando Nonfiction Prize
Born in the US, JEN SILVERMAN was raised in America, Europe and Asia. She received her BA from Brown University and her MFA in Playwriting from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. Her plays have been developed or produced in New York, San Francisco, New Mexico, Washington (both DC and state), Iowa, Rhode Island and LA, and her short play “The Education of Macoloco” was the 2009 winner of the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Play Festival and...
Jennifer Beebe Awarded Spring 2011 Orlando Poetry Prize
JENNIFER BEEBE is a poet, a mother, and an English and creative writing teacher. Her work can be found in Los Angeles Review, Northwest Review, Cider Press Review, and Seattle Review among others. Her manuscript, Again an Oath in the Face of Absence, is an AROHO To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize finalist, a Beatrice Hawley Book Award finalist, and a St. Lawrence Book Award finalist. Jennifer’s winning poem, “The...
Sting and Nest by Barbara Rockman
Sting and Nest by Barbara Rockman received the 2012 National Press Women Poetry Book Prize and the 2012 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. I’ve attended two day-long AROHO conferences and two summer retreats at Ghost Ranch. At every event I found myself held in a community of women who became my sister writers, friends, inspiration and teachers. AROHO gives me refuge and courage to write my bravest poems. It offers the...
Ordinary Angels by Bridget Birdsall
Ordinary Angels, by Bridget Birdsall AROHO planted the seed of possibility in my sometimes dialectic dyslexic writer’s brain that the VOICES of women are sorely needed in the world and that one of those VOICES might just be mine. Thank you AROHO for helping me believe in myself and my writing! As Barb Johnson says, “when one women wins, we all win!” –Bridget Berdsall
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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