Barb Johnson Awarded 5th Gift of Freedom

Posted on Mar 31, 2009

Barb Johnson has spent most of her adult life working as a carpenter. In 2004, at age forty-seven, she entered the MFA program at The University of New Orleans. During her time there, she won the Robert F. Gibbons Award, The Svenson Award for Fiction, The Gulf Coast Teachers of Creative Writing Award, Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers, and a grant from The Astraea Foundation. She has been a finalist for the...

Kate Gale, 2009 To the Lighthouse Finalist Judge

Posted on Jan 1, 2009

Kate Gale, Ph.D., is the managing editor of Red Hen Press. Kate was the inaugural judge for AROHO’s To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize. Update to post: Click here to see Kate’s selected winner, Genevieve Kaplan.

Without a Map by Meredith Hall

Posted on Apr 1, 2008

Listed as one of ten “truly addictive stories” by O Magazine, 2007 BookSense “Pick of the Year,” 2007 Elle Magazine Reader’s Pick, Without a Map by 3rd Gift of Freedom Winner Meredith Hall has been called “A haunting meditation on love, loss, and family,” (Caroline Levitt, People, 4 stars), and “An unusually elegant memoir that feels as though it’s been carved straight out of...

2007 Participating Writers

Posted on Aug 23, 2007

Summer Wood Awarded 4th Gift of Freedom

Posted on Feb 23, 2007

Summer Wood, 4th Gift of Freedom Recipient But for a writer to be that brave, she needs to know—to believe firmly, and to be reminded often—that there are people out there for whom the truth matters, people who need her stories.—Summer Wood, from her Gift of Freedom application Summer Wood is a fiction writer fromTaos, New Mexico.  She is the recipient of the 4th Gift of Freedom Award.