Phoenix Award Papers
Phoenix Papers 2008
Peter Dickinson, Phoenix Award Speech, The Money Spider
Claudia Mills, “Oh What Good Pure Love”: Sexuality and Motherhood in
The Gift of Sarah Barker
Donna R. White, Oracular Spoons in Peter Dickinson's
The Ropemaker
(paper coming soon)
Marilynn S. Olson, Acts and Monuments: Jane Yolen’s
Devil’s Arithmetic
Karen Coats,
Eva
and the Body/Body Problem (paper coming soon)
Phoenix Papers 2007
Donna R. White, A Game of Snakes and Ladders: Sheila Gordon’s
The Middle of Somewhere
Marilynn S. Olson, “Falling into Place”: Margaret Mahy’s
Alchemy
Claudia Mills, Blame for Not Knowing: Waiting for Moral Awakening in Sheila Gordon’s
Waiting for the Rain
Karen Coats, Memory and the Blurring of Genre (paper coming soon)
Phoenix Papers 2006
Priscilla A. Ord, Philip Pullman’s Other Trilogy: An Overview of the Sally Lockhart Mysteries
Hilary Crew, Transformations: Margaret Mahy’s
The Tricksters
Michael Levy, “A Great New Work” or “Demon-Trap”: Attitudes Towards Technology in Philip Pullman’s
The Shadow in the North
Claudia Mills, “Bringing Things to Life by Talking to Them”: The Creative Power of Story in
Howl’s Moving Castle
Phoenix Papers 2005
Michael Levy, “Margaret Mahy’s Liminal Spaces: Moments of Transformation in
The Changeover
Marilynn S. Olson, Sleeping Beauty and Hero, Too: T. S. Eliot’s
Four Quartets
and
The Waste Land
as Substrata in
Fire and Hemlock
Hilary S. Crew, Margaret Mahy’s
The Catalogue of the Universe
: Wobbles, Asymmetry, and Dangerous Edges
Phoenix Papers 2004
Berlie Doherty, Phoenix Award Speech, Dreams and Visions
Michael Levy, Brian Doyle: Class and Cash on
Easy Avenue
Hilary Crew, Berlie Doherty’s
Granny Was a Buffer Girl
: Remembering the Past for the Future
Marilynn S. Olson, What Does the Shadow Know?: Brian Doyle’s
Angel Square
Lois R. Kuznets, Leaving
White Peak Farm
Phoenix Papers 2003
Marilynn S. Olson, The Land, the Woman, and Another Resolution: Ivan Southall’s
Josh
Nancy Huse, How Bad Can Bad Girls Be?: Cynthia Voigt Imagines Her Worst
Adrienne Kertzer, A Time of Bibles and Guns: Ivan Southall’s
The Long Night Watch
Phoenix Papers 2002
Zibby Oneal, Phoenix Award Speech, Letting a Character Lead the Way
Carole H. Carpenter, Art and Artistry: An Appreciation of Zibby Oneal’s
In Summer Light
Nancy Huse, Re-Membering Broken Cultures in
Story for a Black Night
Marilynn Strasser Olson, “A just concern for the public danger”:
Trompe l’oeil
Journalism, Social Metaphor, and
Mayday Rampage
Lois R. Kuznets, The Black Hole of Loss in Zibby Oneal’s
A Formal Feeling
Phoenix Papers 2001
Peter Dickinson, Phoenix Award Speech, Going Round by the Byways
Anita Tarr, The Politics of Art
Nancy Huse, “My Mother the War”:
AK
as Caul in Peter Dickinson’s Africa
Adrienne Kertzer, Why Are the Sikhs Not English?: History in Peter Dickinson’s The Changes Trilogy
Carole H. Carpenter, Connecting with the Past: An Appreciation of Kathryn Lasky’s
The Night Journey
Phoenix Papers 2000
Monica Hughes, Phoenix Award Speech
Anita Tarr, Monica Hughes’s The Isis Trilogy: Feminist Rite of Passage?
Carole H. Carpenter, Monica Hughes: Canadian, Eh?
Alethea Helbig, Dreams and Devils, Devils and Dreams: The Risk Factor in Monica Hughes’s
Devil on My Back
and
The Dream Catcher
Carol Hanson Sibley, Jane Langton’s
The Fledgling
: What If? Then What? So What?