{"id":10196,"date":"2022-03-04T17:42:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T22:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.糖心传媒.edu\/magazine\/糖心传媒-edu-mag-dev\/?p=10196"},"modified":"2022-03-15T14:26:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T18:26:26","slug":"childrens-literature-association-honors-m-f-a-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.糖心传媒.edu\/magazine\/childrens-literature-association-honors-m-f-a-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Children\u2019s Literature Association Honors M.F.A. Student"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Amanda Becker, who is pursuing her Master of Fine Arts degree in children\u2019s literature at Hollins, has received the 2021 Graduate Essay Award from the Children\u2019s Literature Association (ChLA).<\/p>\n

A four-member committee of children\u2019s literature scholars selected Becker\u2019s essay, \u201cA Story in Fragments: An Analysis of Poetry and Perspective in October Mourning<\/em>,\u201d as the winner of this year\u2019s master\u2019s-level award.<\/p>\n

The Graduate Student Essay Awards recognize outstanding papers written on the graduate level in the field of children\u2019s literature. They are considered annually and awarded as warranted. In 2008, the ChLA Board approved giving two separate awards each year, one for an essay written at the master\u2019s level and one for an essay written at the doctoral level.<\/p>\n

\u201cA Story in Fragments\u201d focuses on Leslea Newman\u2019s October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard<\/em>, a novel in verse responding to the 1998 murder of Shepard, a gay 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming. \u201cWritten with love, anger, regret, and other profound emotions, this is a truly important book that deserves the widest readership, not only among independent readers but among students in a classroom setting, as well,\u201d noted Booklist<\/em> in its review. \u201cMost importantly, the book will introduce Matthew Shepard to a generation too young to remember the tragic circumstances of his death. Grades 8-12.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of Becker\u2019s essay, a judge stated, \u201cOne thing good scholarship does is strengthen its readers\u2019 commitment to the literature it discusses: it prompts some to return to works they thought they knew and others to pick up those works for the first time. I think this is good scholarship. The analysis of the poetic effects of diverse perspectives…is sharply focused, sensitive to textual detail, and above all resists the temptation of reductive readings.\u201d Another judge called it \u201coriginal and interesting \u2014 not just related to interpretation of the specific text but also to the larger genre of poetry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Becker received a $400 award, a one-year complimentary ChLA membership, and an invitation to present her paper at the ChLA\u2019s annual conference, which was held virtually this year in June.<\/p>\n

ChLA is a nonprofit association of scholars, critics, professors, students, librarians, teachers, and institutions dedicated to the academic study of literature for children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amanda Becker, who is pursuing her Master of Fine Arts degree in children\u2019s literature at Hollins, has received the 2021 Graduate Essay Award from the Children\u2019s Literature Association (ChLA). A four-member committee of children\u2019s literature scholars selected Becker\u2019s essay, \u201cA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-10196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in_the_loop","tag-fall-2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.糖心传媒.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.糖心传媒.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.糖心传媒.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.糖心传媒.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.糖心传媒.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10196"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.糖心传媒.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10795,"href":"https:\/\/www.糖心传媒.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10196\/revisions\/10795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.糖心传媒.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.糖心传媒.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.糖心传媒.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.糖心传媒.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}