American Renaissance for the Twenty-first Century (ART), a nonprofit arts foundation, has announced the winners of the Silver Rose Award for Excellence in the Art of the Short Story. Stories selected to receive this prestigious honor were chosen from over 1000 short stories published during 2001 in large, well-known magazines and in small, lesser-known journals and webzines. In all, twelve authors were chosen by ART to receive the Silver Rose Award for Excellence in the Art of the Short Story. These "one dozen silver roses" are now available in ART’s inaugural publication of SILVER ROSE ANTHOLOGY: Award-Winning Short Stories 2001, the first in an annual anthology series that will feature short stories from twelve authors who have earned ART’s newest award. ART is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts foundation with a stated mission to "promote a rebirth of beauty and life-affirming values in all of the fine arts." The Silver Rose is ART’s symbol of beauty, and the Silver Rose Award for Excellence in the Art of the Short Story was created to honor writers of exceptional short stories that, one way or another, embody this mission.
Alexandra York presently draws from her multi-faceted background to focus on writing and lecturing on the arts and the culture as well as writing fiction.
In addition to authoring five nonfiction books (one a Book-of-the-Month Club selection), Alexandra has also been published in magazine and newspaper articles, book and movie reviews and poetry. In other media, she both wrote and performed a bi-weekly feature on WPIX-TV Channel 11 Evening News in New York and wrote and hosted two different Talk Shows that tracked the contemporary performing arts for ABC Radio Network. As an author, she has been a guest on many major talk shows, including "The Today Show," "Larry King Live," "To Tell the Truth," "AM New York," "AM Los Angeles," "AM Philadelphia," "Wake-Up Houston," ABC's "Eyewitness News," and she has been interviewed on hundreds of radio shows. As a performer, she appeared as principal actress in dozens of TV and radio commercials in America and Europe, culminating that aspect of her career in a year-long tour of the U.S. as an exclusive TV spokeswoman for Clairol, Inc. In person, she has lectured extensively at Town Hall Celebrity Series, private organizations, corporations, and universities.
Alexandra is published in England, Australia, Mexico,South America, Spain, and Russia, as well as the United States and Canada. Aside from her self-help books (Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, Van Nostrand, Ballantine and Berkley-Jove), her work has also appeared in publications as varied as Reader's Digest (Domestic and International), Vital Speeches, The New York Times, USA Today, Vogue, New Woman, Chronicles, The Humanist, The Intellectual Activist, Reason, American Arts Quarterly, The Journal of Ayn Rand, The Objectivist Navigator, America Artist, and Confrontation Literary Journal. She was for six years the Editor for ART Ideas, quarterly arts and culture magazine published by American Renaissance for the Twenty-first Century (ART) a New-York-based nonprofit educational arts foundation of which she is the Founding President: www.ART-21.org
Alexandra received the 1997 Whiting Memorial Award for outstanding service to the cultural world from the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry, where she nows serves as an elected Mentor. She is listed in Who's Who of American Women and Who's Who in America. She is a member of The Authors' Guild and The National Arts Club, the latter for which she serves on the Literary Committee. Her latest book (2006) is titled OVER THE YEARS: Poems, Lyrics, Songs, Prose. Her novel, CROSSPOINTS A Novel of Choice--set in New York's controversial art world explores the subject of free will, pertaining especially to romantic, personal, and artistic choices--was published in America in 2004, Russia in 2007, and worldwide Spnish translation in 2010. With her husband, Barrett Randell, she divides her time between New York City, Bucks County, PA and Vermont.
