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...
Leslie C. Youngblood Awarded Spring 2009 Orlando Short Fiction Prize
LESLIE C. YOUNGBLOOD received her MFA from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. Along with writing short stories, she’s currently at work on her first novel. She teaches at Lincoln University, Jefferson City, MO. Read her winning short story, “Smoking Demon,” here.
Jennifer Woodworth Awarded Spring 2009 Orlando Flash Fiction Prize
Read Jennifer’s winning flash fiction story, “The Rings,” here.
Page Lambert Awarded Spring 2009 Orlando Nonfiction Prize
PAGE LAMBERT, recipient of Literary Fellowships from the Wyoming Arts Council in poetry and prose, and a past Fellow at the Jentel Artist Residency Program, is the author of the memoir In Search of Kinship (Fulcrum) and the novel Shifting Stars (Tor/Forge, St. Martins; finalist for the Mountains and Plains Book Award). Read her winning essay, “These Things I Can Love,” here.
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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