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
Fall 2011

Orlando Poetry Prize

Winner
Kathleen Savino, “History of Glass”

Finalists
Laura Davenport, “In a Nashville Liquor Store, I Realize I Don't Love You”

Laura Donnelly, “Instructions for the Binoculars”

Lauren Henley, “Poem for Joshua Tree (1984-2002)”

Orlando Creative Nonfiction Prize

Winner
Doris Ferleger, “Five Full Moons"

Finalists
Angela Cannon-Crothers, “Emergence at the Pond”

Ellen Graf, “Troll Vision”

Li Miao Lovett, “If Grandma Had Married a Peasant”

Julie Marie Wade, “Holy Orders”

Orlando Short Fiction Prize

Winner
Branden Boyer-White, “Crossing”

Finalist
Hallie Rundle, “Hessen Gulch”

Orlando Flash Fiction Prize

Winner
Amy Silverberg, “Write This Down”

Finalists
Lillian Huang Cummins, “Recession”
Kathleen Savino, “Trouble”

eMessage Winners:

Orlando Poetry Prize

Winner
Jennifer Beebe, "The Green Season"

Finalist
Melinda Goodman, "Poem For a Friend Whose Mind I Miss"

Orlando Creative Nonfiction Prize

Winner
Jen Silverman, "Six Bright Horses and the Land of the Dead"

Finalist
Adriana Paramo, "This Grain of Rice"

Orlando Short Fiction Prize

Winner
Laura Brown-Lavoie, "A Strange Woman"

Finalists
Melinda Goodman, "Black Impala"
Emily Kiernan, "Tabula Rasa"

Orlando Flash Fiction Prize

Winner
Ashley Kunsa, "A Woman's Glory"

Finalists
Bushra Rehman, "Abandoned Bread Truck"
Lee Reilly, "Unmoored"

eMessage Winners: