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ATTENTION GIFT OF FREEDOM APPLICANTS
Effective April 15, 2010:
A Room of Her Own's Sixth Gift of Freedom competition (original deadline October 11, 2010) will be placed on hiatus due to ongoing funding shortages. Our many AROHO supporters are currently joining forces to raise the requisite funds for the Sixth Gift of Freedom, and the competition will be reinstated when that funding is secured. Applications already submitted for the Sixth Gift of Freedom competition will be returned or destroyed according to applicant's request. All application fees will be returned.
Our current GOF recipient will be unaffected by this hiatus, and AROHO will continue to offer all other programs, including the biannual $1000 Orlando prizes in the genres of Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Sudden Fiction, and Short Fiction, and the annual $1000 To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize.
We will host our Retreat for Women Writers,featuring Marilynne Robinson, as scheduled, August 8-14, 2011. The Retreat's application for regular attendance and scholarship opportunities will be available on the website June 1, 2010.
AROHO remains steadfast in our commitment to women artists. Thus far, we have channeled over $650,000 to connect, support, challenge, and champion creative women, and A Room of Her Own continues to be America's preeminent nonprofit institution working on behalf of creative women.
Spring 2010 Orlando Prize Winners
Orlando Prize winning submissions, excerpts from finalists, and four winning eMessages will be published on our website the week of 5/1/10. Please visit AROHO’s Orlando Prizes & eMessage Competition page for the list of finalists for each award.
Orlando Poetry Prize Winner
Tanaya Winder, “The Impermanence of Human Sculptures”
Orlando Nonfiction Prize Winner
Jennifer Ruden, “A Redhead Brunette and Blonde: My Muse was a Bird”
Orlando Sudden Fiction Prize Winner
CJ Hauser, “Buoys”
Orlando Short Fiction Prize Winner
Allison Alsup, "Quick and Clever"
Congratulations to all who applied: We honor your dedication to the work of writing.
AROHO believes that at every stage of life as a writer, submitting work is not simply a competitive exercise but a means of legitimizing your writing life and investing in your commitment and talent. Regularly putting your work forward is a matter of discipline which gives your writing breath and an opportunity to live in the world. With the Orlando Prizes, AROHO is creating more ‘room' for women writers in the world of prizes and competitions—we hope that they will become a routine part of your submissions schedule and a perfect way for you to participate in your community of women writers.
Next Orlando Deadline and New Information:
Orlando Prize Deadline—7/31/10
NEW NEXT CYCLE!! $1000 Prize will include print publication in The Los Angeles Review. Finalists for each genre will be considered for publication. Online forms for all four genres will be available the week of 5/1/2010.
"Emboldened Woman Writer's Message to the World"
Congratulations to our Spring 2010 eMessage Winners:
Susan Anderson
You bring tools to the rocky field and dig, exhume, and plant. The garden – your story – takes root and grows, despite drought and deluge. You hoe, weed, pluck and kill bugs. The story grows hardy, its fruit sweet as sun-ripe gold tomatoes. Harvest is near.
Elissa Bassist
I wish you'd stop believing no one is going to read your writing; this makes your work restrained, lackluster, and full of the hollow fear of what other people think. I wish your anxiety away, but only you can move it, with your hands, with your heart, with the sheer force of your bones.
Amina Heckstall
Through my words I am able to expose myself in ways deemed unacceptable by a society that has placed restrictions or standards on how I am to be. Through my words I can just Be.
Carrie Nassif
She dared me to look into my own eyes; to tell myself, "I love you" and really feel it. Shame rose bile-like in my throat. I can't even think it and mean it. In the mirror, she takes a startled breath, forgiving my familiar flaws...and speaks. I'd begun.
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