“The Geography of First Kisses,” by Karin Davidson
Compass Points The first was Leon. A small, muscular boy. A midshipman at the academy. He knew about compasses, easterly winds, how to bring the boat about on white-capped seas. I went for his blond hair and his deep voice, both like honey, thick and golden and crowded, the waxen chambers, the echo in my chest. Summer grew brighter, and I refused to go back home to New Orleans, nearly sixteen, without that first kiss. Sweet sixteen...
“crafting,” by Megan Alpert
let us not bruise a single onion. or throw away a single bite of peach. if you have a home, open it. take in vegetables and homeless youth. patch the places where their mother ripped hair from their scalp. tuck carrot peels back into earth, the onion skin like skin of hand. take in this muddy river. banks rise up tree bottoms, then freeze and snow again. take it in your mouth, the headline: Boy, 15, Charged With Murder. as you are...
Leia Penina Wilson Awarded 2012 To the Lighthouse Prize
The winner of our 2012 To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize was Leia Penina Wilson’s “I built a boat with all the towels in your closet.” Selected by guest judge Evie Shockley, the book will be released by Red Hen Press in fall of 2014. Leia Penina Wilson spends most of her days baking tiny cakes and cookies. On the days she’s not baking, she plays Magic the Gathering and cuddles with her boyfriend on...
Makara by Kristen Ringman
Makara by Kristen Ringman, 2011 Kenny Fries Fellow In Makara, Ringman celebrates the space between human and animal selves with tenderness and precision. —Bhanu Kapil Buy This Book Receiving an AROHO Fellowship allowed me the gift of attending my first weeklong writing retreat, but that wasn’t all. AROHO gave me the space and connections I needed to finally fulfill my life-long dream of becoming a published writer....
Sarah Elizabeth Schantz Awarded Fall 2012 Orlando Short Fiction Prize
SARAH ELIZABETH SCHANTZ is in her final semester as a MFA candidate at the Jack Kerouac School in Boulder, CO. She lives on the outskirts of town in an old farmhouse where the corners collect dust, cobwebs and a lot of ghosts. She was twenty-one the first time she read Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own”—a literary experience that changed everything about how she approached her gender and her writing; she is ecstatic to receive the...
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...
Spoke & Dark by Carolyn Guinzio
Spoke & Dark by Carolyn Guinzio, To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize Winner, 2010 Judge: Alice Quinn There is no word for the place between the dying hand and the living hand that holds it, but there is a space between those hands. Spoke & Dark dwells there, in the tensions that inhere between one thing & another: lost & found, future & past, life & afterlife. Using typographical symbols (#, /, and...
Raising Wrecker by Summer Wood
Set amid the giant trees of Northern California, Raising Wrecker by 4th Gift of Freedom Winner, Summer Wood, is the story of nearly-broken boy who unexpectedly finds a family. Called “a big-hearted, big-loving, compassionate book” by Pam Houston, “a rare treat” by the Denver Post, and “an unforgettable novel” by New Mexico Magazine, Raising Wrecker charts two decades of an unconventional family,...
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