Blood Desert by Renny Golden
Blood Desert, by Renny Golden Golden’s poetry book Blood Desert: Witnesses 1820-1880, published by the University of New Mexico Press, won the Women’s Writing the West (WILLA Literary Award), was named a Southwest Notable Book of the Year 2012, and was a finalist for the New Mexico Book Award 2012. The time at AROHO gave me a renewed sense of trust in my vision and direction for my writing. Being amongst so many vibrant...
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...
Does the sea remember everything? I wonder.
Does she absorb everything? Does she keep it safe?
Virginia Woolf
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The Q: Can you fathom the spectacle that would be created if we moved together, arms outstretched, close enough to touch?
The Q: What echoes through you that longs to take form—a poem, an image, a mark, a whisper of becoming?
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