Faith Scott Awarded Spring 2009 Orlando Poetry Prize
Read Faith’s winning poem, “Negrita,” here.
Barb Johnson Awarded 5th Gift of Freedom
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
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
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...
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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