Camp Utopia and the Forgiveness Diet by Jenny Ruden
In a desperate attempt to get out of going to fat camp, sixteen-year-old Baltimore teen Bethany Stern tries what promises to be the last diet she will ever need—The Forgiveness Diet. Where Louise Rennison and My So-Called Life meet John Green, Camp Utopia and the Forgiveness Diet is a contemporary account of a timeless teenage conundrum: how to conquer self-doubt, release grudges, and ultimately, grow up. 2010 was not the best...
Cry of the Nightbird, edited by Michelle Wing et al.
In Cry of the Nightbird: Writers Against Domestic Violence (edited by Michelle Wing, Ann Hutchinson and Kate Farrell), thirty-eight writers speak out in more than fifty prose and poetry pieces of a hidden tragedy: violence in homes, living in fear, and forced silence. Authors from every walk of life and every aspect of this difficult issue raise their voices as one to end this silence, to bring freedom and release for themselves and...
Body on the Wall by Michelle Wing
Michelle Wing’s poetry collection, Body on the Wall, is a haunting and deeply personal work, divided into four sections based on the elements: Earth, Wind, Fire and Water. Untangling the many threads that make up a life, Wing writes about being a daughter, violence against women and girls, mental illness, her identity as a lesbian, her love for her wife, and the search for spiritual direction. Beyond this, in each poem, whether it is...
flesh to bone by ire’ne lara silva
Rooted in a Chicana/Latina/indigenous geographic and cultural sensibility, the stories in 6th Gift of Freedom Fiction Finalist ire’ne lara silva’s debut short story collection flesh to bone take on the force of myth, old and new, giving voice to those who experience the disruption and violence of the borderlands. In these nine tales, silva metes out a furious justice—a whirling, lyrical energy—that scatters the landscape...
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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2015 Retreat & Waves Discussion Series: Writing Against the Current August 10-16, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico “I’m fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It’s an odd feeling, though, writing against the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall.” —From Virginia Woolf’s Diary, November 22, 1938 Submit a...
Cheryl Clarke: Orlando Poetry Judge
Often, poetry has been used to educate and motivate people to change their lives–to change their circumstances.—Cheryl Clarke AROHO is pleased to announce renowned poet and civil rights activist Cheryl Clarke as the finalist Poetry judge for the Fall 2014 Orlando Prizes. We asked Cheryl the following questions about her own writing and her advice for women writers: AROHO: Can you talk a little about your experience of the...
Vanessa Diffenbaugh: Orlando Short Fiction Judge
I couldn’t have written The Language of Flowers without being a mother and a foster mother. But lately I’ve also been thinking about how the two—being a writer and a mother—sometimes feel like opposing forces. […] I don’t have advice, really, other than to try to honor both roles and to just keep going.—Vanessa Diffenbaugh AROHO is pleased to announce bestselling author of The Language of Flowers, Vanessa Diffenbaugh, as the...
Kristen Wolf: Orlando Flash Fiction Judge
“What is one resource you wish more women writers had or knew about?” Confidence.—Kristen Wolf AROHO is pleased to announce author Kristen Wolf as the finalist Flash Fiction judge for the Fall 2014 Orlando Prizes. We asked Kristen about the values and concerns of historical fiction and for her tips and advice on the writing life: AROHO: In The Way, you use fiction as a porthole into a re-imagined 1st Century...
Deborah Feldman: Orlando Creative Nonfiction Judge
Sometimes when I read something I can hear the writer talking to me, and they sound very specific, very much themselves, and I can picture them in color and detail. This is when reading becomes exciting.—Deborah Feldman AROHO is pleased to announce bestselling author Deborah Feldman as the finalist Creative Nonfiction judge for the Fall 2014 Orlando Prizes. In anticipation of the upcoming competition we asked Deborah the following...
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