Nickole Brown Awarded Fall 2010 Orlando Poetry Prize
NICKOLE BROWN’S books include her debut, Sister, a novel-in-poems, and the anthology, Air Fare, which she co-edited with Judith Taylor. She graduated from The Vermont College of Fine Arts and was the editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and the Kentucky Arts Council. She worked at the independent, literary press,...
Nahal Suzanne Jamir Awarded Fall 2010 Orlando Short Fiction Prize
NAHAL SUZANNE JAMIR completed her Ph.D. at Florida State University in 2010. Her work has been published in The South Carolina Review, Jabberwock Review, and Meridian. Her story “In Perfect English” recently placed 3rd in a Glimmer Train competition. Nahal’s winning short story, “Heart of a Locust,” was first published in Issue No. 9 of the Los Angeles Review.
Malene Bell Awarded Fall 2010 Orlando Flash Fiction Prize
MALENE KAI BELL, Founder of American Heroine Sessions, is a writer, poet, mother, and activist. She earned a B.A. from Morgan State University and M.A. in Writing from The Johns Hopkins University. Her work has appeared in Penn Union, Mosaic Literary Magazine, The Baltimore Review, Radar, 13th Moon, and Urbanite Magazine. She is Assistant Editor of The Infinite Field Magazine as well as a lecturer at Morgan State University. To stay...
Melita Schaum Awarded Fall 2010 Orlando Nonfiction Prize
MELITA SCHAUM is the author of two books on the modern poet Wallace Stevens and two books on women’s issues. Her fifth book, A Sinner of Memory, a collection of her memoir essays about the wonders and catastrophes of midlife was named runner up for the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writer Award for 2004, and finalist for ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year. Her poetry, short fiction and literary essays have appeared in such...
Rio de Sangre by Kate Gale
In a story conceived by Los Angeles author and librettist Kate Gale and featuring a vibrant score by Emmy-award winning composer Don Davis, Rio de Sangre depicts love in the midst of war and political turmoil in the face of idealism. The opera has been performed at the New York City Opera and Walt Disney Concert Hall. In our writing lives, there are many people who want something from us. Kids who want sandwiches, husbands who want...
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.
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