Missouri Review Editor's Prize Missouri Review. Solstice Creative Nonfiction Prize Solstice.įourth Genre Michael Steinberg Essay Prize Fourth Genre. RECOMMENDED CONTESTS: LITERARY JOURNALS AND BOOK PRIZES He has also been a guest writer and teacher at many colleges and universities, as well as at several national and international writers’ conferences, including the Prague Summer Writing Program, the Paris Writers’ Conference, The Kachemak Bay/Alaska Writers’ Conference, the Geneva Writers’ Conference, and the Chautauqua Writers’ Center, among several others.Ĭurrently, he's writer-in-residence at the Solstice/Pine Manor low-residency MFA program. Other titles include, Peninsula: Essays and Memoirs From Michigan-a finalist for the 2000 Forward Magazine Independent Press Anthology of the Year and the 2000 Great Lakes Book Sellers Award and an anthology, The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction, co-edited with Robert Root, now in its sixth edition. And, the Association of American University Presses listed it in “Books Selected for School Libraries.” In 2004, Foreword Magazine chose Still Pitching as the Independent Press Memoir of the Year. In addition, his essays and memoirs have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies. Steinberg has written, co-written and edited five books and a stage play. Michael Steinberg is the founding editor of Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction.
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Please adapt, use, and share these lessons in ways that are generative for your teaching practice. These lessons are intended as a starting place for educators, to help you envision ways in which you might bring Indigenous literatures, as well as ways of knowing, being, and doing, into your teaching contexts. International speaker and award-winning author Monique Gray Smith wrote My Heart Fills with Happiness to support the wellness of Indigenous children and families, and to encourage young children to reflect on what makes them happy. As this website was designed with Undergraduate Programs in Education instructors, as well as teachers in mind, connections to UPE courses have been flagged on each lesson plan. With audiences ranging from Pre-Kindergarten to Post-Secondary, lesson plans across this resource address a wide range of school subject areas, inclusive approaches, and Indigenous education topics, such as the revitalization of Indigenous languages. 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