AROHO’s Orlando Prizes & eMessage Competition

Prizes will be awarded to deserving women on an objective and non-discriminatory basis. Applications must be completed fully and will be considered in their entirety. Applicants are encouraged to make multiple submissions in the same or different categories.

Winners and finalists will be announced on the website and in a newsletter bulletin to e-newsletter subscribers. Please sign up for our e-newsletter, or update your email address on our list in order to be assured notification of prize winners and finalists.

Orlando Prize winners in all four categories will be notified by phone or email prior to the announcement date. Winners will be offered a chance to edit the submission prior to website publication.

In order to facilitate the blind judging process, please remove all identifying information from the document before inserting in the text field.

Please be sure your document meets the length requirements before copying and pasting into the text field provided on the paperless form.


The Orlando Prizes and eMessage competitions are open to all women regardless of nationality. All submissions must be written in English.


The competitions are open to women writers with the following exceptions:

1. Employees, interns, or contractors of AROHO;
2. Relatives of employees or members of the board of directors;
3. Relatives or individuals having a personal or professional relationship with any of the final judges where they have taken any part whatsoever in shaping the submission, or where, for whatever reason, selecting a particular submission might have the appearance of impropriety.

To be certain that every finalist receives the fairest evaluation, all submissions will be provided to the judges without any identifying material.

Bios, acknowledgments, and other identifying material will be removed from judged submissions until the conclusion of the competition.

AROHO will not use students or interns as readers at any stage of its competitions.

AROHO is committed to maintaining the utmost integrity of our awards. Our policy is that judges will recuse themselves from considering any submission from an applicant to whom they are related by blood, love, or money.

 

Orlando Prize Winners & Finalists
Spring 2013

Orlando Poetry Prize

Winner
Abby Chew, “Storm”

Finalists
Barbara Rockman, "Onto Her Tattooed Back, Bedtime Story I Tell My Daughter"
Jana Branch, The Trouble with Predicting the Apocalypse"
Rosa Lane, "The Pond"

Orlando Creative Nonfiction Prize

Winner
Bridgett Jensen, “Lift”

Finalists
Marlene Samuels, "The Pretending Suitcase Game"
Malka Older, “El ahogado más hermoso del mundo"
Katherine Standefer, "Dear Husband,"

Orlando Short Fiction Prize

Winner
Katherine Van Dis, “Our Lady of Sorrows”

Finalists
Sandra Graves, "Separation"
Mary Luttrell, "Elephant Falling"

Orlando Flash Fiction Prize

Winner
Helen Jones, “The Boardwalk, 1969”

Finalist
Amanda Fletcher, "Right"

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Orlando Poetry Prize

Winner
Marilyn McCabe, “On Hearing the Call to Prayer Over the Marcellus Shale on Easter Morning”

Finalists
Mary-Kim Arnold, “This is for the Sad Girls”
Karen Mcpherson, “Bantam Sampling: Prospect Mountain Road”
Erin Radcliffe, “Pishing”

Orlando Creative Nonfiction Prize

Winner
Ellen Smith, “The Locust: A Foundational Narrative”

Finalists
Jennifer Simpson, “After, We Were Birds”
Jennifer Bird, “Searching For the Kumari Living Goddess”

Orlando Short Fiction Prize

Winner
Sarah Elizabeth Schantz, “Sister”

Finalist
Amina Gautier, “Bodega”
Marytza Rubio, “Brujeria for Beginners”

Orlando Flash Fiction Prize

Winner
Annie Dawid, “Nitza Kosher Pizza”

Finalists
Audrey Berry, “French Apartment”
Patricia Hanahoe-Dosch, “Sighting Bia”
Kate Rutledge Jaffe, “P e o p l e D i e”

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Orlando Prize Winners & Finalists
Spring 2012

Orlando Poetry Prize

Winner
Megan Alpert, “crafting”

Finalists
Edith Walden, “Song in Seven Parts”
Laura Juliet Wood, “Late Summer Garden”

Orlando Creative Nonfiction Prize

Winner
Flynn Berry, “Surfing”

Finalists
Daisy Hernandez, “Stories She Tells Us”
Adriana Paramo, “Girl in Red Stilettos Getting Drunk in Ashgabat”

Orlando Short Fiction Prize

Winner
Karin Davidson, “The Geography of First Kisses”

Finalist
Anne Dimock, “Iceland Josh”
Dolores Walshe, “The Gift”

Orlando Flash Fiction Prize

Winner
Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock, “The Smell of Other People's Houses”

Finalists
Mallory Hellman, “October, Forest River”
Mariahadessa Tallie, “untitled”

eMessage Winners: