A Gift of Freedom Success Story
Meredith Hall's first book, Without a Map, Receives Critical Acclaim
Meredith Hall is the 2004 Gift of Freedom Award Winner for Creative Nonfiction.
Without a Map has received glowing reviews from publications including People, O Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Entertainment Weekly, More Magazine, Library Journal and The Boston Globe. It has been named a Book Sense pick for the month of May and has also received an Elle Reader's Choice Award.
Meredith Hall completed her first book, Without a Map, while freed from other responsibilities by the 2004 Gift of Freedom Grant from AROHO.
Support AROHO and Meredith Hall!
Purchase the book along with the AROHO Book Club Reader's guide
A Room of Her Own 2005 Retreat for Committed Women Writers in Ghost
Ranch, New Mexico
August 22nd - August 27th, 2005
A Room of Her Own Foundation
thanks all of those who attended this year's retreat and helped, once
again, to create an extraordinary experience for faculty, administrators,
and retreatants alike. This year's highlights included intensely focused
workshops and classes and nightly readings by faculty and retreatants
amidst the beauty of Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico. Workshops this
year were lead by a spectacular faculty including authors Rebecca
Brown, Breena Clarke, Kim Addonizio, Antonya Nelson, and literary
agent Jody Rein. Publishing coach Maggie
Lichtenberg offered one-on-one sessions, and guest speakers included
poet and musician Joy Harjo 2004 Gift
of Freedom recipient Meredith
Hall, writer and painter Mira
Bartók, and poet Marguerite
Maria Rivas.
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read the full story.
A Room of Her Own Foundation will be providing a scholarship for one
woman to attend this year’s Taos Summer Writer’s Conference.
The scholarship is for tuition remission (up to $550) to any U.S. woman
writer.
Applications are due May 15th. Scholarship to be announced
June 1st.
The conference will be held from July 7th – July 14th, 2006 in Taos,
NM. This year's faculty includes Pam Houston, Amy Beeder, Dan Mueller,
Julie Mars, Anya Achtenberg, and many others.
"GODFATHER" AWARDS $50,000 TO WOMAN WRITER
Award announcement at Santa Fe celebration
SANTA FE, New Mexico—Although he's not
the "Godfather" of soul, Lee Gutkind, the
man Vanity Fair magazine dubbed the "Godfather" of creative
nonfiction, was making somebody feel good. And that somebody was the
third annual $50,000 Gift of Freedom award
recipient. The $50,000 Gift of Freedom is
awarded annually to one woman writer or artist through the passionate
efforts of A Room of Her Own. Continue
reading this story.
2003 Retreat for Committed Women Writers
A Brief Account of AROHO's First Annual Retreat Based on the Words
of Women Who Were There
Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, August 11 - 17, 2003
The AROHO Retreat at Ghost Ranch gathered
nearly fifty women writers from nineteen states for an intense week
of writing, discussion, and mutual support. Click
here to read the full story.
2002 Literary Gift of Freedom Award Finalists
The Selection Panel chose Jennifer
Tseng, Los Angeles, California as the recipient of the
2002 Literary Gift of Freedom. Kitsey Canaan,
North Bennington, Vermont; Rebecca Carroll, Brooklyn, New York; Camille
T. Dungy, Lynchburg, Virginia; and Deborah Lubar, Lincoln, Vermont were
the finalists. Excerpts of their applications are in The
Best Of section of our website.
