The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936214717 ISBN 13: 9781936214716

Publisher: Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Winner of a Skipping Stones Honor Award, a Benjamin Franklin silver medal award, and a ForeWord Book of the Year Award  Editor Tara L. Masih put out a call in 2007 for Intercultural Essays dealing with the subjects of  "culture, race, and a sense of place." The prizewinners are gathered for the first time in a ground-breaking anthology that explores many facets of culture not previously found under one cover. The powerful, honest, thoughtful voices--Native American, African American, Asian, European, Jewish, White--speak daringly on topics not often discussed in the open, on subjects such as racism, anti-Semitism, war, self-identity, gender, societal expectations. Their words will entertain, illuminate, take you to distant lands, and spark important discussions about our humanity, our culture, and our place within society and the natural world. (A Teaching Tolerance Magazine Staff Pick 2013)

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From the Author

Essays by: Samuel Autman, Shanti Elke Bannwart, M. Garrett Bauman, Simmons B. Buntin, Jeff Fearnside, Betty Jo Goddard, Katrina Grigg-Saito, Kelly Hayes-Raitt, Kamela Jordan, Tilia Klebenov Jacobs, Li Miao Lovett, Bonnie J. Morris, Mary Elizabeth Parker, Emma Sartwell, Christine Stark, Sarah Stoner, Lyzette Wanzer, Toshi Washizu, Gretchen Brown Wright.
Includes extensive, in-depth discussion questions for book clubs and instructors; fun, challenging "NET assignments" for high school and college students; and an introduction by acclaimed writer David Mura. 

About the Author

Tara L. Masih is editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction (a ForeWord Book of the Year), The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays (a Skipping Stones Honor Book, a Benjamin Franklin silver medal finalist, a ForeWord Book of the Year), and author of Where the Dog Star Never Glows (a National Best Books Award finalist). Several limited edition illustrated chapbooks featuring her flash fiction have been published by The Feral Press. Awards for her work include first place in The Ledge Magazine's fiction contest and Pushcart Prize, Best New American Voices, and Best of the Web nominations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1936214717
• ISBN 13: 9781936214716
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Tara L. Masih