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To the Lighthouse poetry pub prize deadline soon

Posted in awards, To the Lighthouse, tagged on Thursday 23 August 2012| Leave a Comment »

For more details, visit A Room of Her Own Foundation.

Loveliness and stillness clasped hands in the bedroom, and among the shrouded jugs and sheeted chairs even the prying of the wind, and the soft nose of the clammy sea airs, rubbing, snuffling, iterating, and reiterating their questions— “Will you fade? Will you perish?”— scarcely disturbed the peace, the indifference, the air of pure integrity, as if the question they asked scarcely needed that they should answer: we remain. – To the Lighthouse

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AROHO writing contest deadlines approach

Posted in A Room of Her Own Foundation, awards, tagged , , on Friday 1 July 2011| Leave a Comment »

A Room of Her Own Foundation has two writing competition deadlines coming up. They are:

  • Orlando Prize deadline is July 31. Awards are given for unpublished poetry, short fiction, flash fiction and nonfiction. A $1,000 prize is awarded in each category, along with publication of the work.
  • To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize postmark deadline is Aug. 31. The award is given for the best unpublished poetry by a woman. The winner receives $1,000 and publication with the Red Hen Press.

The foundation is dedicated to furthering the vision of Virginia Woolf and bridging the gap between a woman’s economic reality and her artistic creation by offering generous financial support to women of diverse artistic expression.

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A Room of Her Own deadlines for women writers

Posted in A Room of Her Own Foundation, awards, tagged on Wednesday 19 January 2011| Leave a Comment »

The deadline for the A Room of Her Own foundation’s $1,000 Orlando Prize is Jan. 31.

The foundation, for women writers and artists, will award its To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize for the best, unpublished poetry collection by a woman. Apply here by Aug. 31. The 2010 winner was Carolyn Guinzio for her volume E.

The deadline to apply for the A Room of Her Own 2011 Retreat is March 1.

AROHO is a nonprofit institution working on behalf of women writers. The $50,000 Gift of Freedom Award is given every two years and is the largest grant of its kind to women in the United States.

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Writer on Woolf to be honored at free speech event

Posted in awards, books, Ruth Gruber, tagged , , , on Monday 20 October 2008| 3 Comments »

Ruth Gruber, noted journalist, photographer and author of Virginia Woolf: The Will to Create as a Woman, is one of five individuals who will be honored at the Annual Celeberation of Free Speech sponsored by the National Coalition Against Censorship.

The event will be held at the Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th St. at Seventh Avenue in New York City on Oct. 21.

You can listen to Gruber, Anthony Lewis and Barney Rosset discuss censorship — past, present and future — at noon Monday, Oct. 20, on 93.9-FM and 820-AM on WNYC.

For more about Gruber from Blogging Woolf, click here.

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