Megan Abbott: Orlando Short Fiction Judge
AROHO is pleased to announce award-winning crime fiction author Megan Abbott as the finalist Short Story judge for the Fall 2015 Orlando Prizes. Megan Abbott is the award-winning author of six novels, including The Fever, Dare Me andThe End of Everything. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Salon and Los Angeles Times Magazine. She is also the author of The Street Was Mine, a study of hardboiled fiction and film noir,...
Linda Cooper Awarded Spring 2015 Orlando Poetry Prize
“The longing and painful resurgence of the central figure in this poem is drawn for us through action and image. Every word here is doing important work. … The poet uses her lines masterfully, changing and rearranging my perceptions and expectations, renewing tired language and recharging her poem as she moves it down the page.” —Camille Dungy, Spring 2015 Orlando Poetry Finalist Judge Congratulations to Linda...
Judith Janeway Awarded Spring 2015 Orlando Flash Fiction Prize
“A narrator, a place, a past, and a future are crystallized brilliantly in this deceptively brief fiction about a street performer. Long after reading, I found myself shaking my head and asking—’Did that really just happen?’—forgetting that it was only a story.” —Joni B. Cole, Spring 2015 Orlando Flash Fiction Finalist Judge Congratulations to Judith Janeway on the selection of her flash fiction story, “The...
Anna Scotti Awarded Spring 2015 Orlando Short Fiction Prize
“A great story pulls the twin threads of plot and theme taut from first word to last, and ‘They Look Like Angels’ makes this tautness seem effortless. The spare, simple, straightforward language both impressed and affected me with its restraint. The anguish of the grieving narrator, packed so carefully inside her actions, is almost never seen but emerges in devastating stages as the experience behind those actions is...
Diana Spechler Awarded Spring 2015 Orlando Nonfiction Prize
“There is so much to say about this lyric essay. It is not only formally innovative, the form is following function with all sorts of biblical relevance with the number 12. It is really smart, and fast and light on its feet. It gets so much done in short spaces…This writer knows exactly what to tell us, and, often more important (and overlooked in CNF) what NOT to, what connections to let up make on our own. The essay is...
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...
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...
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...
Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Throughout her blockbuster career, Jodi Picoult has seamlessly blended nuanced characters, riveting plots, and rich prose, brilliantly creating stories that “not only provoke the mind but touch the flawed souls in all of us” (The Boston Globe). Now, in her highly anticipated new novel, she has delivered her most affecting work yet—a book unlike anything she’s written before. For more than a decade, Jenna...
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