“History of Glass,” by Kathleen Savino
Even the ancients knew: Glass is neither solid nor liquid, but in another state always in between. Old windows are usually thicker at the bottom, since over centuries, glass drifts as if it has known warmth. We opened the window gate and climbed out onto the fire escape because it was too warm inside. I leaned against your back, lit a cigarette, breathed until the orange point met my fingers. You told me that you first knew you were...
Branden Boyer-White Awarded Fall 2011 Orlando Fiction Prize
BRANDEN BOYER-WHITE’s fiction has appeared in Third Coast Magazine and the Los Angeles Review, received Honorable Mention in the 2011 AWP Intro Journals Project, and was shortlisted for the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. An ardent devotee of Virginia Woolf and gender-bending, she could not have been more thrilled to win the Orlando Prize and thanks, with a huge heart, A Room of Her Own. Branden lives in...
Doris Ferlerger Awarded Fall 2011 Orlando Creative Nonfiction Prize
DORIS FERLERGER is the author of three volumes of poetry, Big Silences in a Year of Rain, When You Become Snow, and As the Moon Has Breath. Winner of the New Letters Poetry Prize, among others, her work has been published in numerous journals including Cimarron Review, the L.A. Review, and the South Carolina Review. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a Ph.D. in psychology from Temple University. Her winning essay,...
“How to Become a Dyke, Step Three, Birds,” by Nickole Brown
A book of birds. A story in birds. Each breath a bird, each dream slipped from your ear to your pillow out the window a song: cardinals laughing at you—birdie birdie birdie— on a lonely Valentines, then robins swarming the last bits of red another February day, so many of them on the holly tree the branches tick with their picking and you stop the car. But you are so cold, you have to get to the store, and in the florescent buzz of...
Carolyn Guinzio Awarded 2010 To the Lighthouse Prize
Carolyn Guinzio’s manuscript “Spoke & Dark” is the winner of the 2010 To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize, selected by judge Alice Quinn.
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A buoyant celebration of the completed publication of Waves: A Confluence of Women’s Voices, A Room of Her Own’s digital anthology.
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