Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: Orlando Poetry Judge
May02

Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: Orlando Poetry Judge

AROHO is pleased to announce Cheryl Boyce-Taylor  as the finalist Poetry judge for the Fall 2015 Orlando Prizes.   Born in Trinidad and raised in Queens, New York, Cheryl is the founder and curator of The Calypso Muse Reading Series and The Glitter Pomegranate Performance Series, and recently received a Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award. The author of three collections of poetry, Raw Air, Night When Moon Follows, and...

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Anne Finger: Orlando Flash Fiction Judge
May01

Anne Finger: Orlando Flash Fiction Judge

AROHO is pleased to announce  Anne Finger as the finalist Flash Fiction judge for the Fall 2015 Orlando Prizes. Anne Finger is a writer of fiction—both short stories and a novel—as well as of creative non-fiction. Her short story collection, Call Me Ahab, winner of the Prairie Schooner Award, was published in the Fall of 2009 by the University of Nebraska Press.  She has published four other books.  Her short fiction has appeared in...

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Sue William Silverman: Orlando CNF Judge
May01

Sue William Silverman: Orlando CNF Judge

AROHO is pleased to announce  Sue William Silverman as the finalist Creative Nonfiction judge for the Fall 2015 Orlando Prizes. SUE WILLIAM SILVERMAN’s new memoir is The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew. Her two previous memoirs are Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey through Sexual Addiction, which is also a Lifetime TV movie, and Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You, which won the Association of Writers...

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Megan Abbott: Orlando Short Fiction Judge
May01

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,...

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Camille Dungy: Orlando Poetry Judge
Oct01

Camille Dungy: Orlando Poetry Judge

“Creative insight exists in more of an aquifer then a well. Creative insight is always below the surface. Maybe the issue is access, not availability. Find a new place and a new way to plant your well. Find new technology to get the water out. Find a form that tests your limits and write into that form.”—Camille Dungy AROHO is pleased to announce Camille Dungy as the finalist Poetry  judge for the Spring...

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