SIX by Julie Marie Wade
SIX, winner of the 2014 To the Lighthouse Poetry Prize. Judge: C.D. Wright Buy this Book Search for a Reading of SIX Near You “I call six times just to be sure you heard,” this speaker announces on the first page. These poems are also the six calls—calls to attention, calls to action, calls to account for something of our own. The speaker in SIX is insistent, scrupulous, and unflinching as she plumbs six essential aspects of...
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...
AROHO Literary Thumbprint
AROHO has inspired and supported countless women, women whose works have gone on to inspire and change the lives of so many others. This thumbprint is a representation of the mark AROHO has made on the literary world. Our thanks to all of the women who took part in making this gift possible. Title Sponsored by 67 Ways to Save the Animals Anna Sequoia A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain Robin Vidimos A Room of One’s...
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...
t’ai freedom ford Awarded 2015 To the Lighthouse Prize
t’ai freedom ford is a New York City high school English teacher, Cave Canem Fellow, and Pushcart Prize nominee. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Drunken Boat, Sinister Wisdom, No, Dear, The African American Review, Vinyl, Nepantla, Poetry and others. Her work has also been featured in several anthologies including The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop. In 2012 and 2013, she completed two...
Kathline Carr Awarded 2015 Clarissa Dalloway Prize
Kathline Carr, writer and visual artist, earned her BFA in Creative Writing with concentrations in visual art and feminist philosophy from Goddard College, VT and holds an MFA in Visual Arts from The Art Institute of Boston. Her writing/art has appeared in Calyx, Earth’s Daughters, Hawaii Review, CT Review, Alexandria Quarterly and elsewhere; recently, she has exhibited in the Berkshires, NYC, Boston, Toronto, and artSTRAND Gallery in...
Submit Smart, Submit Relentlessly
April 1st To the Lighthouse Poetry and Clarissa Dalloway “everything but poetry” Book Prize Deadline AROHO asked past To the Lighthouse Winners Julie Marie Wade, Leia Penina Wilson, and Carolyn Guinzio, and Clarissa Dalloway winner Anna Maria Hong, about what winning the TTL and CD Book Prizes has meant to their lives and careers, and about what it took to get there. And now we’re asking you… Have you stopped...
AROHO’s “Night of Glittering, Vocal Expansiveness”
at the Bryant Lake Bowl & Theater Wednesday, April 8. Doors open at 6 PM. Curtain at 7 PM. Tickets $6. The first 20 listeners to arrive get a free drink, courtesy of Virginia! Seats are limited: Pre-Purchase Tickets Here AROHO is kicking off AWP Minneapolis with a “Night of Glittering, Vocal Expansiveness:” a reading of women writers from far and wide who have all left the quiet of desks, kitchen tables, and lonely...
2015 Retreat Program Sampler
2015 Retreat & Waves Discussion Series: Writing Against the Current Following is a sample of the 2015 Retreat Program, still a work in progress. In abundance but unlisted are the echoing canyons, laughter, inspiration, and galaxies of fearless words and stories. The application deadline is January 15, so apply today! Learn more about AROHO Retreats here. Our intention is to make room for women’s creative, unguarded...
Be an AROHO Booth Host at AWP
Do you want to get to know other AROHO women and introduce new women to the possibility and opportunity of AROHO? Support AROHO staff by joining our effort to welcome, get to know, and spread the word to new faces at the AWP Bookfair! Volunteer hosts are welcome to bring their own books to sell/sign during their shifts and may sign up for as many time slots as they like. (One hour slots are scheduled between 9 and 5 on Thursday,...
Announcing the 7th Gift of Freedom
“The Gift of Freedom is one of the heftiest grants available to writers anywhere and is the largest open solely to women in the United States.”—Poets & Writers The 7th Gift of Freedom application is now open Deadline: November 2, 2015
Where Robindale Meets Woolf
I was writing my application for the Gift of Freedom about this time of year in 2012, just as I expect hundreds of women writers will be doing in coming weeks. I was going on faith, I was remembering an entry from Woolf’s A Writer’s Diary in which she’s considering Byron—how as a young man he never believed in his poetry and so became “Byronic.” On the other hand, she says, “The Wordsworths and the Keatses believe in that as...
Shakespeare’s Sister Fellow, Dipika Guha
Dipika Guha of New York, NY, is the recipient of A Room of Her Own Foundation’s first Shakespeare’s Sister Fellowship, a partnership joining A Room of Her Own Foundation (AROHO), Hedgebrook, and The Lark together with award-winning actress, playwright, and author Ellen McLaughlin. This gestational, communal, and developmental fellowship is the trifecta of playwriting opportunities for a female playwright, offering a $10,000 prize and...
Anna Maria Hong Awarded 2014 Clarissa Dalloway Prize
“H & G,” a fantastical and fantastic re-imagining of the story of Hansel and Gretel by Anna Maria Hong, is the winner of AROHO’s inaugural Clarissa Dalloway “everything but poetry” Book Prize. Finalist Judge Kate Gale wrote: “H & G represents the AROHO story. Big myth collides with all of our personal narratives: the witch, the oven, the fire. As women, we write our way out of that story...
Julie Marie Wade Awarded 2014 To the Lighthouse Prize
“SIX,” Julie Marie Wade’s breathtaking manuscript, is the winner of AROHO’s 2014 To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize. Finalist Judge C.D. Wright wrote: “I chose SIX not in spite of but because of its discursiveness, its willingness to wander through the poem with technique at hand, but also a permit to allow both substantive and ephemeral material to wander into the field of the poem and...
Announcing 2015 AROHO Retreat Program Contributors, Fellows, and Artists in Residence
From the 2015 Retreat Committee Congratulations to all who applied to contribute as a Program Contributor, Artist in Residence, or Fellow at the 2015 AROHO Retreat. Your generosity and the excellence of your craft are what make the AROHO community so uniquely transformative. When the application window for proposals and fellowships for the 2015 AROHO Retreat closed on August 31, we were overcome with gratitude and pride. The proposals...
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...
Working in Silence
Silence is your treasure. Do not exchange it for an easy life. This is my revision of a sentence by Zen-Getsu, which I came across as an epigraph and am keeping as my watchwords for these next few months up in my room. The original subject is poverty. What I understand to be at the heart of the counsel is the worth of the difficult thing. Difficult gifts–poverty or silence, possibilities for greatness, whatever your own...
Shakespeare’s Sister, Round 1!
Thank you to all who submitted to the inaugural Shakespeare’s Sister Fellowship for Women Playwrights! We received an amazing response, with almost 1,000 submissions. Semi-finalists will be notified on September 2nd and invited to submit to the second application round, due September 12th. Each semi-finalist will submit the full play from which her initial 30 page application was excerpted and her response to the following...
Windows
June 24, 2014 When I wrote my application for the Gift of Freedom, one of my essays followed some words from Virginia Woolf offered as a prompt. The quote began like this: “Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time, the very walls are permeated by their creative force…” I’m now six months into my Gift of Freedom, six months in the room of myself. If I were writing a poem about this, the walls would be...
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