More of this World or Maybe Another by Barb Johnson
More of this World or Maybe Another by 5th Gift of Freedom Winner, Barb Johnson, is a collection of short stories in which the lives of four unlikely friends intersect on the backstreets of New Orleans. Living amid poverty and violence, these fragile heroes of the American underclass redefine our notions of family, redemption, and love. Described by Dorothy Allison as “Stunning stories…the kind that reveal, enlarge, and...
Lyn Hawks Awarded Fall 2009 Short Fiction Orlando Prize
LYN HAWKS holds a BA in English and an MA in Education from Stanford University. She has taught English and creative writing in middle and high schools, and currently she develops curriculum at Duke University Talent Identification Program. Lyn is co-author of The Compassionate Classroom: Lessons that Nurture Wisdom and Empathy and Teaching Romeo and Juliet: A Differentiated Approach. She writes fiction and maintains a writers’...
Alyssa Cooper Awarded Fall 2009 Flash Fiction Orlando Prize
ALYSSA COOPER began her writing career while studying art history at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her fascination with writing as a medium of art—meant to depict—soon took focus, and she graduated with a B.A. in Creative Writing. Ms. Cooper maintains that it is her love for visual and performance art that provides the creative lens for her written works, and she finds inspiration while dancing or strolling art galleries. “The...
Patricia Henritze Awarded Fall 2009 Nonfiction Orlando Prize
PATRICIA HENRITZE is a writer and theater artist whose collaborations have taken her from Atlanta to Chicago to Budapest. She has received grants from Theater Communications Group, Fulton County Arts Council and Poets&Writers, Inc. Currently, Patricia is Artist-in-Residence at Gardenhouse Dance, teaches theater at Clayton State University and is a member of Working Title Playwrights. Read her winning essay, “Learning to...
Mary Ellen Sanger Awarded Fall 2009 Orlando Poetry Prize
MARY ELLEN SANGER lived for 17 years in Mexico, and has published short stories and poems in Spanish and English in several Mexican journals, including Luna Zeta and Zocalo. Her essay “A Grammar of Place” was anthologized in Mexico, a Love Story, published in 2006 by Seal Press. She was a finalist for the Room of Her Own Foundation “Gift of Freedom” in 2007, and was awarded a writers’ grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund/Money...
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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