Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award
The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award was an award given annually to beginning women writers. Established in 1995 by American author Rona Jaffe, the Foundation offers grants to writers of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The award was discontinued in March 2021; the foundation cited the high cost of administering the award as the main factor. Recipients of the award were selected through nominations only. Past recipients include Aryn Kyle, Emily Rapp Emily Rapp Black (born July 12, 1974) is an American memoirist. When she was six years old, she was chosen as the poster child for the non-profit organization March of Dimes, due to a congenital birth defect that resulted in the amputation of h ..., and ZZ Packer. Winners References {{Cite news, date=17 September 2019, title=We Are Writing Against Our Own Erasure, work=Electric Literature, url=https://electricliterature.com/we-are-writing-against-our-own-erasure/, access-date=23 November 2020 American poe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Women's Writing (literary Category)
The academic discipline of women's writing is a discrete area of literary studies which is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their sex, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study: "Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from those which produced most writing by men." It is not a question of the subject matter or political stance of a particular author, but of her sex, ''i.e.'' her position as a woman within the literary world. Women's writing, as a discrete area of literary studies and practice, is recognized explicitly by the numbers of dedicated journals, organizations, awards, and conferences which focus mainly or exclusively on texts produced by women. Women's writing as a recognized area of study has been developing since the 1970s. The majority of English and American literature programs offer courses on specific aspects of literature by women, and women's wr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Debbie Urbanski
Debbie (or Debby or Deb) is a feminine given name, commonly but not always short for Deborah (or Debra and related variants). Notable people *Debbie Allen, American actress, choreographer and film director *Debbie Armstrong, American athlete * Debbie Brill, Canadian high jumper *Debbie Cook, Californian politician, mayor of Huntington Beach, California *Debbie Crosbie (born 1969/1970), British banker * Debbie Fuller, Canadian diver *Debbie Gibson, American singer, song writer and actress *Debbie Harry, lead singer from the band Blondie *Debbie Marti, English high jumper * Debbie Matenopoulos, American television personality and actress * Debbie McLeod, Scottish field hockey player * Debbie Meyer, American swimmer *Debbie Reynolds, American actress (born Mary Frances Reynolds) * Debby Ryan, American actress * Debbie Muir (born 1953), Canadian former synchronized swimmer and coach * Debbie Stabenow, American legislator *Debbie Turner, actor, Marta von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas
Lina (pronounced "Leena") is a feminine given name. Languages of origin include: English, Italian, Lithuanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Persian, Kurdish, Arabic. It is also the short form of a variety of names ending in -lina including Catalina, Angelina, Carmelina, Carolina, Emelina, Marcelina, Nikolina, Rosalina, Italina, and Žaklina. Lina is a Finnish, Italian, and Slovene feminine given name that is a feminine form of Lino, Lin, and Linus. In 2011 it was one of the most popular given female names in Germany. beliebte-vornamen.de Accessed: August 14, 2012 It was initially used as a shortened form of names such as [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aamina Ahmad
Aamina Ahmad is a British fiction writer and playwright based in the U.S. She has two book publications, the play ''The Dishonoured'' and the novel ''The Return of Faraz Ali'', which was named a "new work to read" by ''The New York Times'', "quietly stunning" by ''The New York Times Book Review'', and a "most anticipated" book by both ''The Millions'' and ''Book Culture''. She is a creative writing professor at the University of Minnesota and the winner of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. Early life and education Ahmad was born and raised in London. In 1996, she graduated from University College London, where she studied English. She later moved to the United States to attend the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she studied fiction and graduated in 2013. After two further years of teaching at the University of Iowa, she served as a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University for two years, finishing the program in 2017. Career Ahmad worked for many years as a script editor ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Shawna Kay Rodenberg
Shawna is a feminine given name. It is a variant of Shauna, derived from Shawn or Sean, an Irish Gaelic name. Its origin is English and means "God is Gracious". The first name has been present throughout the last century although fluctuating in use. It ranked 882nd in popularity for females of all ages in a 2000-2003 Social Security Administration statistic and 490th in a 1990 US Sample. Shawna may refer to: * Shawna Robinson (born 1964), American stock car driver and interior designer *Shawna Trpcic (born 1966), American costume designer *Shawna Welsh Shawna is a feminine given name. It is a variant of Shauna, derived from Shawn or Sean, an Irish Gaelic name. Its origin is English and means "God is Gracious". The first name has been present throughout the last century although fluctuating in ... (born 1989), Canadian actress See also * Shawnna (born 1978), American rapper. References English feminine given names Feminine given names {{Given name ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dominica Phetteplace
Dominica ( or ; Kalinago: ; french: Dominique; Dominican Creole French: ), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean. The capital, Roseau, is located on the western side of the island. It is geographically situated as part of the Windward Islands chain in the Lesser Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. Dominica's closest neighbours are two constituent territories of the European Union, the overseas departments of France, Guadeloupe to the northwest and Martinique to the south-southeast. Dominica comprises a land area of , and the highest point is Morne Diablotins, at in elevation. The population was 71,293 at the 2011 census. The island was settled by the Arawak arriving from South America in the fifth century. The Kalinago displaced the Arawak by the 15th century. Columbus is said to have passed the island on Sunday, 3 November 1493. It was later colonised by Europeans, predominantly by the French from the 1690s to 1763. The Frenc ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tiana Nobile
Tiana Nobile is a poet based in New Orleans, Louisiana where she works at an arts education nonprofit called KID smART. She is a Korean American adoptee. Her debut collection of poetry, ''Cleave,'' was published by Hub City Press in the spring of 2021. Education and career Nobile received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College, her MAT in elementary and special education from the University of New Orleans, and her MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College. She is the author of the chapbook ''The Spirit of the Staircase'', which was published in 2017 by Antenna, a New Orleans-based organization. Nobile collaborated with writer and interdisciplinary artist, Brigid Conroy, whose artwork appears throughout the chapbook. In an interview with Hyphen, Nobile said the title of her chapbook comes from the French phrase, ''l’esprit de l’escalier,'' which “refers to the feeling you get when someone says something to you and you think of the perfect response or comeback 20 minutes later as ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ebony Flowers
Ebony Victoria Flowers is an American prose writer and cartoonist who lives in Denver. Flowers authored the graphic novel, ''Hot Comb,'' which contains several short story comics that are a mix of autobiographical and fiction. She has been published in ''The Paris Review', The New York Times'' and ''The New Yorker'.'' Accolades Flowers is a recipient of the 2017 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards, won the 2020 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel for ''Hot Comb','' and won the 2020 Eisner Award for Best Short Story for "Hot Comb."Comic-Con 2020 Eisner Award Winners Announced by Jamie Lovett, at ComicBook.com; published July 25, 2020 retrieved July 25, 2020 Education Flowers received her B.A. from the[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ama Codjoe
Ama Codjoe is an American social justice activist, dancer and a Pushcart-nominated poet. She was a Cave Canem fellow, a Callaloo Writers Workshop fellow, and one of Black Bottom’s Tuesday Poets. Codjoe received the Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellowship from New York University and is the former Associate Director of Professional Development for the DreamYard Art Center. Education * Codjoe received her M.F.A. in Dance Performance from Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ .... References Living people 1979 births Ohio State University alumni People from Travis County, Texas American women poets 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American poets {{US-poet-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alison C
Alison may refer to: People * Alison (given name), including a list of people with the name * Alison (surname) Music * ''Alison'' (album), aka ''Excuse Me'', a 1975 album by Australian singer Alison MacCallum * "Alison" (song), song by Elvis Costello * "Alison (C'est ma copine à moi)", a 1993 single by Jordy * "Alison", 1994 single by Slowdive Places * Alison, New South Wales, suburb of the Central Coast region in NSW, Australia * Alison Sound, an inlet on the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada * Point Alison, Alberta, a summer village in Alberta, Canada Other uses * ''Alison'' (film), a South African documentary film * ALISON (company) ALISON is an Irish online education platform for teaching workplace skills. It was founded on 21 April 2007 in Galway, Ireland, by Irish social entrepreneur Mike Feerick. As of July 2022, Alison offers over 4,000 courses in a variety of subje ..., an educational technology company * Alison, common name for plants of the gen ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Karen Outen
Karen may refer to: * Karen (name), a given name and surname * Karen (slang), a term and meme for a demanding woman displaying certain behaviors People * Karen people, an ethnic group in Myanmar and Thailand ** Karen languages or Karenic languages * House of Karen, a historical feudal family of Tabaristan, Iran * Karen (singer), Danish R&B singer Places * Karen, Kenya, a suburb of Nairobi * Karen City or Hualien City, Taiwan * Karen Hills or Karen Hills, Myanmar * Karen State, a state in Myanmar Film and television * ''Karen'' (1964 TV series), an American sitcom * ''Karen'' (1975 TV series), an American sitcom * ''Karen'' (film), a 2021 American crime thriller Other uses * Karen (orangutan), the first to have open heart surgery * AS-10 Karen or Kh-25, a Soviet air-to-ground missile * Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network * Tropical Storm Karen (other) See also * Karren (name) * Karyn (given name) * Keren, Eritrea a city ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gabriela Garcia (author)
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Gabriela may refer to: * Gabriela (given name), a Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian feminine given name * ''Gabriela'' (1942 film), a Czech film * ''Gabriela'' (1950 film), a German film * ''Gabriela'' (1983 film), a Brazilian film * ''Gabriela'' (2001 film), an American film * ''Gabriela'' (1960 TV series), a Mexican telenovela * ''Gabriela'' (1964 TV series), a Mexican telenovela * ''Gabriela'' (1975 TV series), a 1975 Brazilian telenovela * ''Gabriela'' (2012 TV series), a 2012 Brazilian telenovela * Gabriela Women's Party (General Assembly Binding Women for Reforms, Integrity, Equality, Leadership, and Action), a feminist Filipino political alliance See also *Gabriella (other) Gabriella may refer to: * Gabriella (given name), a feminine given name * ''Gabriella di Vergy'', an opera seria by Gaetano Donizetti (1826, revised 1838), and an opera by Mercadante (1828), based on the tragedy ''Gabrielle de Vergy'' by Dormont De ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |