“Mouth,” by Malene Kai Bell
The girl sat at the table with a twisted mouth. The brussel sprouts, cold knobs on her plate; the baked chicken, cooled, from her refusal to open up. Her mother, having had enough of the girls ways, barked at her across the table; her mouth moving like a cow, her tone , a shrill blow horn. “Eat the food, Hen.” The girl earned the name after she’d dug up two juicy earthworms and shared them with the dog, Pluto. Her mother, when she...
“Constellations,” by Melita Schaum
1. A woman is asked to give a lecture on the essay as form. She strolls down to water. Sits on the shore, contemplating wrinkled surfaces, smooth depths. She thinks of design, pattern, rejects those easy figures. She wants to get at something deeper. Discontinuities. The ley lines of things that cannot exist without inference. She casts in her line; somewhere the subject waits to be caught. But it’s not the beadle who interrupts her...
Laura Brown-Lavoie Awarded Spring 2011 Orlando Fiction Prize
LAURA BROWN-LAVOIE is an urban farmer in Providence, RI, where she recently graduated from Brown University. Her work has been published in The Seneca Review, as well as in several on-campus publications. When she’s not working in the field, she’s often onstage performing spoken word poetry. Her winning short story, “A Strange Woman,” was published in Issue No. 10 of the Los Angeles Review.
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...
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