Cut Away by Cathy Kirkwood
Edmund White Award Finalist and Pushcart Nominee, Cut Away by Cathy Kirkwood expertly entwines the lives of three characters struggling to understand the meaning of identity and its seeming mutability. First there was the pure desert silence in which the quietest voice spoke in dry, still air–one which took me over completely in the coming years and became the driving force of the novel. Then there was the surge of women,...
Allison Alsup Awarded Spring 2010 Orlando Short Fiction Prize
ALLISON ALSUP is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, now living with her husband in New Orleans where they are slowly renovating a one hundred thirty year old cottage. Two years ago, she made a shift from full-time teaching to part-time work so that she could devote more time to her fiction. “Quick and Clever” is a stand alone piece from an emerging work focusing on the early generations of Chinese immigrants. Another...
CJ Hauser Awarded Spring 2010 Orlando Flash Fiction Prize
CJ HAUSER is a spinner of yarns and writer of fiction who lives in Brooklyn, New York. She has published fiction in The Brooklyn Review and the L magazine and believes New York is the best possible place to grow a story. She is currently at work on a novel about fishing towns, taxidermy, and love. Read CJ’s award winning flash fiction story, “Buoys,” here.
Jennifer Ruden Awarded Spring 2010 Orlando Nonfiction Prize
JENNIFER RUDEN received her MFA in creative writing from University of Oregon, and volunteered for a one year term with AmeriCorps in New Mexico where she still resides with her husband and two children ten years later. When not teaching literacy skills to disadvantaged youth, you can find Jennifer holed up in some secret place writing. Her stories and essays have appeared in Puerto del Sol, Literary Mama, Amarillo Bay, Mamazina, Word...
Tanaya Winder Awarded Spring 2010 Orlando Poetry Prize
TANAYA WINDER is from the Southern Ute and Duckwater Shoshone Nations and was raised on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation in Ignacio, Colorado. She was a finalist in the 2009 Joy Harjo Poetry Competition and her work is forthcoming in Cutthroat: a journal of the arts’ 5th Anniversary Issue and the Spring 2010 issue of Yellow Medicine Review: a journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought. She currently lives, works, and...
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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