Ellen McGrath Smith Awarded Fall 2012 Orlando Creative Nonfiction Prize
ELLEN MCGRATH SMITH teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and in the Carlow University Madwomen in the Attic program. Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Quiddity, Now Culture, Sententia, The American Poetry Review, Cerise, The Same, Kestrel, Oranges & Sardines, Diner, 5 a.m., Oxford Magazine, The Prose Poem, Southern PoetryReview, Descant (Canada), and others. Anthology publications include: For a Living: The Poetry of...
Marilyn McCabe Awarded Fall 2012 Orlando Poetry Prize
Marilyn McCabe’s book of poetry Perpetual Motion was chosen by judge Gray Jacobik to be published as part of the Hilary Tham Capital Collection by The Word Works in 2012. She is a regular contributor of poetry book reviews for Connotation Press, and her poetry has appeared in print and online in such magazines as Nimrod, Painted Bride Quarterly, and the Cortland Review. Thanks to a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts in...
Annie Dawid Awarded Fall 2012 Orlando Flash Fiction Prize
ANNIE DAWID runs a writer/artist retreat in South-Central Colorado at bloomsburywest.com. Her third book, AND DARKNESS WAS UNDER HIS FEET: STORIES OF A FAMILY, won the Litchfield Review Short Fiction Award and was published in 2009. Her second book, LILY IN THE DESERT, was published in 2001 by the Carnegie-Mellon University Press Series in Short Fiction. Her first book, a novel, YORK FERRY, went into a second printing from Cane Hill...
Karin Davidson Awarded Spring 2012 Orlando Short Fiction Prize
Karin’s winning short story, “The Geography of First Kisses,” was published in Issue No. 12 of the Los Angeles Review.
Flynn Berry Awarded Spring 2012 Orlando Creative Nonfiction Prize
Flynn’s winning essay, “Surfing,” was published in Issue No. 12 of the Los Angeles Review.
Megan Alpert Awarded Spring 2012 Orlando Poetry Prize
Megan’s winning poem, “crafting,” was published in Issue No. 12 of the Los Angeles Review.
Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock Awarded Spring 2012 Orlando Flash Fiction Award
Bonnie-Sue’s winning flash fiction story, “The Smell of Other People’s Houses,” was published in Issue No. 12 of the Los Angeles Review.
Jessica Piazza Awarded 2011 To the Lighthouse Prize
Jessica Piazza’s poetry collection “Interrobang” has been selected by judge Eloise Klein Healy as the 2011 To the Lighthouse Poetry Prize winner. Jessica Piazza was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She earned her B.S. in Journalism from Boston University, where she began work as the Favorite Poem Project, serving as an undergraduate intern for United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Jessica cofounded...
Branden Boyer-White Awarded Fall 2011 Orlando Fiction Prize
BRANDEN BOYER-WHITE’s fiction has appeared in Third Coast Magazine and the Los Angeles Review, received Honorable Mention in the 2011 AWP Intro Journals Project, and was shortlisted for the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. An ardent devotee of Virginia Woolf and gender-bending, she could not have been more thrilled to win the Orlando Prize and thanks, with a huge heart, A Room of Her Own. Branden lives in...
Amy Silverberg Awarded Fall 2011 Orlando Flash Fiction Prize
AMY SILVERBERG is a writer living in Los Angeles. She received a masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. Her work has appeared both online and in print in Lumina, The Tin House Open Bar, Storyglossia, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a literary/humor podcast and a collection of short stories. In addition to fiction, she likes animals doing people things. You can find more about her on...
Doris Ferlerger Awarded Fall 2011 Orlando Creative Nonfiction Prize
DORIS FERLERGER is the author of three volumes of poetry, Big Silences in a Year of Rain, When You Become Snow, and As the Moon Has Breath. Winner of the New Letters Poetry Prize, among others, her work has been published in numerous journals including Cimarron Review, the L.A. Review, and the South Carolina Review. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a Ph.D. in psychology from Temple University. Her winning essay,...
Kathleen Savino Awarded Fall 2011 Orlando Poetry Prize
KATHLEEN SAVINO holds an M.F.A. in Fiction from Columbia University. Currently, she is an assistant director of Columbia University’s Writing Center and a writing consultant at Baruch College. She is working on a book, How To Sleep Jackknife, that combines queer history, Goethe’s light theories and a love story, among other things. An excerpt was published in DIAGRAM’s All Essay Spectacular issue. Her winning poem,...
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...
Jennifer Beebe Awarded Spring 2011 Orlando Poetry Prize
JENNIFER BEEBE is a poet, a mother, and an English and creative writing teacher. Her work can be found in Los Angeles Review, Northwest Review, Cider Press Review, and Seattle Review among others. Her manuscript, Again an Oath in the Face of Absence, is an AROHO To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize finalist, a Beatrice Hawley Book Award finalist, and a St. Lawrence Book Award finalist. Jennifer’s winning poem, “The...
Carolyn Guinzio Awarded 2010 To the Lighthouse Prize
Carolyn Guinzio’s manuscript “Spoke & Dark” is the winner of the 2010 To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize, selected by judge Alice Quinn.
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...
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