TARA L. MASIH INTERCULTURAL ESSAY PRIZE CATEGORY
1st Prize: $100.... 2nd Prize: $50.... Third Prize:.... $25
Category Details
Up to 6,000 words. I am looking for essays dealing with matters of culture, race, and a sense of place, either within the smaller microcosm of self-identity or within the larger environment of family, society and world interactions. I seek essays in the traditional form, my definition being the conscious shaping of nonfiction prose around a central idea or subject. In E. B. White's words, you will be putting your "finger on a little capsule of truth," using reality to point to your truth, not fiction.
About Judge/Sponsor
TARA L. MASIH (Andover, MA)is an award-winning writer and editor with an MA in Writing and Publishing from Emerson College. She has published fiction and poetry in numerous anthologies and literary magazines. Her essays have been read on NPR and reprinted in textbooks, and she was a regular contributor to the Indian-American and Masala magazines, in which her essays on the topics of race and culture were often featured. She works as a freelance book editor in Massachusetts and 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 (collected from past Soul-Making Keats Contests), and author of Where the Dog Star Never Glows (a Best Books Award finalist).
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LAST YEAR'S WINNERS (2012)
First Prize: Gail A. Kenna of Wicomico Chur, VA for “Malay Days”
Second Prize: Char Gardner of Baltimore, MD for “The Inexplicable”
Third Prize: Nancy Penrose of Seattle, WA for “Hollowed Ground: A Hole in Borneo”
Honorable Mentions: Dr. Pirkko L. Graves of White Stone, VA for “Sketches of Bengali Women”; Nancy Penrose of Seattle, WA for “Behind the Brushstrokes”; Anna Hui Dong of Davis, CA for “Chinese Hippie”; Lisa Suguitan Melnick of Moss Beach, CA for “ ‘Eat All You Can’ ”; Theresa Harbin Lebeiko of San Carlos, CA for “Remembering Jidi”