2016 Orlando Prize Winners & Finalists
2016 Orlando Prize Winners & Finalists It was a privilege to read the work of so many talented women. We hope you will join us in celebrating the success of the selected winners and finalists, chosen anonymously by our extraordinary Orlando finalist judge and editor of the upcoming Waves publication, Diane Gilliam! POETRY WINNER: “MOORING THE BOAT TO THE DOCK” by Sarah Black [Birmingham, AL] “Mooring the Boat to...
Fall 2015 Orlando Prize Winners & Finalists
Fall 2015 Orlando Prize Winners & Finalists It was a privilege to read the work of one-thousand twenty-four talented women. We hope you will join us in celebrating the success of the selected winners and finalists, chosen anonymously by our extraordinary panel of finalist judges! POETRY WINNER: “FLIGHT THEORY” by Allison Adair [Brookline, MA] “The poem pulled me into the poet’s experience from the first two...
Spring 2015 Orlando Winners & Finalists
Congratulations to our Winners & Finalists, and thank you to all who submitted! It was a privilege to read the audacious, compelling, and beautiful work of so many talented women. We hope you will join us in celebrating the success of the selected winners and finalists, chosen anonymously by an extraordinary panel of finalist judges! Each winner will receive $1,000 and publication of her winning piece in Issue No. 18 of The Los...
Spring 2015 Orlando Prize Deadline, Days Away
The Orlando Prize & The Los Angeles Review: A Publishing Platform for Courageous Women Do you have an interesting and unpublished piece of poetry, short fiction, flash fiction, or creative nonfiction? or postmark your submission with cover sheet by Saturday, January 31st Poetry (36 lines) Flash Fiction (500 words) Short Fiction & Creative Nonfiction (1500 words) Read the full interviews and bios of our Spring 2015 Orlando...
Fall 2014 Orlando Winners & Finalists
Congratulations to our Winners & Finalists, and thank you to all who submitted! It was a privilege to read the audacious, compelling, and beautiful work of so many talented women. We hope you will join us in celebrating the success of the selected winners and finalists, chosen by an extraordinary panel of finalist judges! Each winner will receive $1,000 and publication of her winning piece in Issue No. 17 of The Los Angeles...
Spring 2014 Orlando Winners & Finalists
Congratulations to our Winners & Finalists, and thank you to all who submitted! As always, we were honored by the chance to read the audacious, compelling, and beautiful words of so many talented women. We are grateful to all who submitted and privileged to honor those whose work merits special recognition at this time. We hope you will join us in celebrating their successes, and we wish everyone who applied boldness and...
$10,000 Shakespeare’s Sister Playwriting Fellowship
A Room of Her Own is pleased to announce the Shakespeare’s Sister Playwriting Fellowship, an unparalleled opportunity for a woman playwright living in the United States to hone her craft and develop a new play in the course of a year-long engagement with three world-class organizations. In addition to $10,000 the cash prize, the winner will be awarded a residency with the Hedgebrook community in the spring of 2015, a spot in AROHO’s...
New Clarissa Dalloway “everything but poetry” Book Prize
A Room of Her Own is pleased to announce the Clarissa Dalloway “everything but poetry” Book Prize. The new prize will award $1,000 and publication to one previously unpublished prose manuscript by a woman writer. Accepted genres will include but are not limited to memoir, biography, novel or novella, young adult literature, and graphic novels. Developed in order to celebrate a variety of voice and style in women’s...
Orlando Prize Winners & Finalists Spring 2012
Orlando Poetry Prize Winner Megan Alpert, “crafting” Finalists Edith Walden, “Song in Seven Parts” Laura Juliet Wood, “Late Summer Garden” Orlando Creative Nonfiction Prize Winner Flynn Berry, “Surfing” Finalists Daisy Hernandez, “Stories She Tells Us” Adriana Paramo, “Girl in Red Stilettos Getting Drunk in Ashgabat” Orlando Short Fiction Prize Winner Karin Davidson, “The Geography of First Kisses” Finalist Anne Dimock, “Iceland Josh”...
Orlando Prize Winners & Finalists Fall 2012
Orlando Poetry Prize Winner Marilyn McCabe, “On Hearing the Call to Prayer Over the Marcellus Shale on Easter Morning” Finalists Mary-Kim Arnold, “This is for the Sad Girls” Karen Mcpherson, “Bantam Sampling: Prospect Mountain Road” Erin Radcliffe, “Pishing” Orlando Creative Nonfiction Prize Winner Ellen Smith, “The Locust: A Foundational Narrative” Finalists Jennifer Simpson, “After, We Were Birds” Jennifer Bird, “Searching For the...
Orlando Prize Winners & Finalists Spring 2013
After reviewing all entries to the Orlando Prizes contest, we want to commend each and every writer who submitted. There were so many fabulous pieces with so much to say, and so many fresh and innovative ways of communicating your courageous material. We truly wish we could work with each of you to see these pieces come to publication. For now, let us just say, with deepest sincerity, well done, and keep going! Orlando Poetry Prize...
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