The 2011 Calliope is the 18th annual anthology published by Women Who Write. The book showcases the work of the winners of our International Short Prose and Poetry Contest, as well as the work of our members. The contest is open to all women writers over the age of eighteen. This year, the organization received eighty-eight submissions from twenty-two U.S. states and Canada. Winners were chosen in a blind judging by independent judges. Our 2011 prose judge was Anne Shelby of Oneida, Kentucky, and Karen Williams Angelucci of Lexington, Ky., judged the poetry entries. We extend our special...